SERE ANUS. 
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Some specimens have the tip of each caudal lobe and of the ventrals black, and the 
base of the dorsal, anal, and pectorals blackish brown. 
Zanzibar. Mozambique. Mauritius. Ceylon. 
22. Serranus areolatus, [159, 186.] 
Perea areolata, Forsk. p. 42. 
Perea tauvina, Geojfr. Descr. de l’ Eg. pi. 20. fig. 1 (not Forsk.). 
Serranus areolatus, Schleg. Fauna Japan, p. 8; Cuv. Val. ii. p. 350; Gunth. Fish. i. p. 149. 
Zanzibar. Aden. Bed Sea. Mozambique. Sea of Japan. 
23. Serranus cylindricus. [373 a.] 
Serranus cylindricus, Gunth. Fish. i. p. 151, plate xi. f. A. 
Zanzibar. Madagascar. 
24. Serranus striolatus, sp. n. Plate III. fig. 2. [359.] 
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Diagnosis. — Caudal rounded, the height of the body is contained thrice and one-third in 
the total length, the length of the head four times and one-sixth in the same. Diameter 
of the eye one-seventh of the length of the head. The upper maxillary bone reaches to 
the vertical from posterior margin of orbit. Preeoperculum inconspicuously serrated 
behind, the denticulation rather stronger at the angle. Sub- and interoperculum entire. 
The third and fourth dorsal spines are longest and one-third the length of the head. 
General ground-colour brownish yellow. Body with about fifteen more or less undulated 
series of short brown streaks, which are sometimes confluent. Head with nume- 
rous small round brown spots. The head and trunk show, besides, numerous rounded 
lighter spots, as in S. tumilabris , some of which have a brown spot in the centre. 
Description. — This species somewhat resembles S. altivelis. The neck is elongated, 
the head strongly compressed and high, with its upper profile concave. The body is 
elevated, its greatest height being below the origin of the dorsal, where it is contained 
thrice and one-third in the total length. The length of the head is contained four 
times and one-sixth in the same. The distance between the eyes is much less than 
their diameter, and is covered with minute scales as far as the nostrils. The eye is 
small, being one-seventh of the length of the head, and half that of the snout. The 
upper maxillary bone reaches to the vertical from the posterior margin of the orbit. 
The prseoperculum is inconspicuously serrated behind, the denticulation being rather 
stronger at the angle. The sub- and interoperculum are entire. The lips are thick and 
fleshy. The operculum terminates in three feeble inconspicuous spines, the middle one 
being more remote from the first than from the third. 
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