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PERCID2E. 
Colour in life bright red, with four or five darker cross bands ; a darker red patch on 
the forehead, from the base of the first dorsal spine to the snout, including the eye. 
Another similarly coloured band from snout above the maxillary to the angle of the 
prseoperculum. The spinous portion of the dorsal, and sometimes the caudal, black- 
edged ; the soft dorsal with a yellowish margin. 
Dr. Bleeker and Prof. Peters regard Perea fasciata (Forsk.) or Serranus oceanicus 
(Lacep.) merely as a variety of coloration of this species. 
Aden. Zanzibar. Johanna. Javanese , Japanese, and China seas. Amboyna. 
Timor. Louisiade archipelago. 
16. 
Serranus summana. Plate II. fig. 1. 
[265.] 
Perea summana, Forsk, p. 42. 
Bodianus summana, Bl. Schn. p. 334. 
Pomacentrus summana, Lacep. iii. p. 511. 
But not 
. Serranus summana, Cuv. fy Val., Rupp., Lefebvre. 
D. 
n 
15 - 16 * 
Caudalis rounded. Canine teeth very small. Prseoperculum distinctly serrated, 
with a very shallow notch above the angle. The third to the sixth dorsal spines 
are the longest, rather feeble, not quite one-third the length of the head. The 
height of the body is contained thrice and two-thirds, and the length of the head 
three times in the total length. The diameter of the eye is one-sixth of the length of 
the head. The upper maxillary bone reaches beyond a vertical from the posterior 
margin of the orbit. 
Head, body, and fins brown ; the trunk and vertical fins covered -with very small, 
round, white dots, each being smaller than a scale. The head is nearly immaculate. 
There is a blackish streak above the maxillary bone. 
Note. — This is clearly the S. summana of Forskal, who describes it as covered with 
guttce , not with maculae, and with hardly any on the head. There are two specimens 
in the British Museum, received from Dr. Ruppell, with the name of S. summana ; but 
these are identical with S. tumilabris of this collection [122]. 
Zanzibar. Bed Sea. 
17. Serranus tumilabris. Plate II. fig. 2. [122.] 
Serranus summana, Cuv. Val. ii. p. 344; Rupp. N. TV. Fische, p. 102, and Atlas, p. 104; Lefebvre, 
Voy. Abyss. Zool. p. 329, pi. 5. fig. l*(bad). 
Serranus tumilabris, Cuv. <$f Val. ii. p. 346; Gilnth. Fish. i. p. 138. 
