SERRANUS. 
5 
We may remark that the description given by Valenciennes of 8. horridus is too in- 
definite to admit of recognition. A specimen in the British Museum received from Dr. 
Cantor as “ 8. horridus , juv.,” measures 10 inches in length, and is certainly specifi- 
cally identical with the banded lanceolatus : the bands have been broken up into the 
irregular sinuous markings described by Cantor, the coloration of the fins is the same 
in both, and so is the comparative length of the dorsal spines, which is certainly not the 
case in the specimens figured by Mr. Day. We do not venture to say what the speci- 
men stated by Mr. Day to be the old state of Icunceolatus may eventually prove to be. 
Zanzibar. Indian Ocean. Batavia. Samarang. 
12. Serranus suillus. [514, 742.] 
Russell, pi. 127 ; ? pi. 128. 
Bola coioides, Buck. Ham. pp. 82, 369. 
Serranus suillus, Cuv. Val. ii. p. 335 ; G'unth. Fish. i. p. 127. 
?Russell, pi. 128. 
?Serranus bontoo, Cuv. Regne Anim. ; Cuv. <5f Val. ii. p. 334, vi. p. 523; Cantor, Mai. Fish. p. 11; 
Giinth. Fish. i. p. 138. 
T) 11 a 3 
D. 15 . A. g . 
Caudalis rounded ; denticulations of the prseoperculum conspicuous, stronger at the 
angle. Height of the body one-fourth of the total length ; the length of the head 
is contained thrice and one-third in the same. The upper maxillary bone reaches 
to the vertical from the posterior margin of the eye. Pectorals rather longer than the 
ventrals, but not reaching the vent. Dorsal spines, the first two excepted, subequal in 
length. The second and third of anal equal in length and strength, and two-sevenths 
of the length of the head. 
Colour brownish, with eight more or less interrupted darker cross bands, — the first 
over the orbit and prseoperculum ; the second on the nape of the neck ; the third 
between the second and third dorsal spines ; the fourth, very indistinct, from the 
eleventh to the fifteenth spine ; the fifth from the first to the seventh ray ; the sixth 
from the ninth to the last ray ; the seventh before the caudal ; and the eighth across 
the root of the caudal. The head and body are moreover covered with large, round, 
yellowish-brown spots, which are smaller than the interspaces between them. 
Zanzibar. Philippines. Java. Coasts of India. 
13. 
Serranus fuscoguttatus. 
[410, 494.] 
Percse summame, var. b, Forsk. p. 42. 
Serranus fuscoguttatus, Rupp. Atlas, Fische, p. 108, t. 27. f. 2 ; Peters, Wiegm. Arch. 1855, p. 235 ; 
G'unth. Fish. i. p. 127. 
D. 
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13-15* 
