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Cerna acutirostris Doderleiu, Revista del Genere Epinephelm o Ceriia, 1882, 59 (Palermo; description 
and full synonymy). 
Serraniis undulostis Cav. &, Val., 11,295, 1828 (Brazil); Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., Y, 127, 1876 (Rio 
Janeiro); Gunther, I, 143, 1859 (said to have “ pectorals yellow”) ; Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., 
XII, 1882, 3 (Brazil; Port Said; Beiruth; Messina). 
Trisotrojns undulosus Poey, Ann. Eye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1869, 305 (after one of the original types). 
Serratnis fusetts Lowe “Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc., VI, 196, 1836” (Madeira); Gunther, I, 1859, 134 
(Madeira; Canary Islands); Steindachner, Ichthyol. Bericht., IV, 1867, 14, Taf. 2 (Cadiz; 
Teneriife). 
Serraims emarginatiia Valenciennes, “ Ichthyol. ties Canaries, 10, 1835 to ’50 ” (Canary Is.). 
Serranus tinea Cantraiue “Nouv. M6m. Acad. Brux., 1831, XI.” 
Cerna nebidosa Cocao “Indice Pesci Messina; Gen. 45, sp. 2,” 1844 (Palermo). 
Cerna macrogenis Sassi, “ Descr. Genova e il Genovasato, I, 139,” 1846. 
Epinephelna chaliniua Cope, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., 1871, 465 (St. Martin’s). 
Cerna acutirostris YAT . lata, Doderleiu, 1. c., 74 (Palermo; monstrous form). 
Habitat . — West ludies, Brazil, Mediterranean Sea, and islands of eastern Atlantic. 
Etymology. — Buber, red; from the supposed coloration of the original bleached 
specimen. 
This species is very well distinguished from all the other Epinephelinee by the 
greatly increased number of the gill-rakers, a character first pointed out by Dr. Bean. 
The following description is taken from No. 4805, M. C. Z., from Bio de Janeiro, 13 
inches long: 
Body rather deep, compressed, the snout sharp, the anterior profile straight ; month 
moderate, the maxillary extending just beyond eye, 2^ in head; canine teeth small; 
preopercle with a salient angle. Gill-rakers very long and slender, x-1-31, the longest 
four fifths diameter of eye and in head. Dorsal spines small; soft dorsal slightly 
augulated, the longest ray 24 in head ; anal fin (in most specimens, especially in adults) 
sharply angulated as in M.falcatus, the longest ray in head ; caudal Innate, the angles 
well produced in the adult, the fin subtruucate in young; pectoral If in head. Head 24 
in length; depth 2f ; D. XI, 16, A. Ill, 11. Scales, 95. 
Coloration grayish olive, with reticulations of dark around irregular roundish pale 
spots; a black moustache along edge of maxillary ; fins not much darker than body. 
Young with the markings more distinct than they are in the adults. 
The coloration in this species differs from that of M. bonaci in this respect ; in M. 
rubra the reticulations belong to the dark ground color; in the other the dark spots 
of the ground color are surrounded by paler reticulations. 
A genuine specimen of this species is in the museum at Cambridge, sent by Poey 
from Havana, and therefore presumably a type of one of Poey’s nominal species. I 
am unable, however, to identify it with any of these, as none show the combination of 
angular preopercle and paler spots surrounded by darker reticulations of the ground 
color. 
There seems to be no reason for considering the Sparus scirenga as this species 
rather than as some one of the others found in the waters of Sicily. We are informed 
by our friend, M. Alexandre Thominot, of the Musee d’Histoire Naturelle at Paris, 
that the types both of acutirostris and undulosus possess numerous gill-rakers. There 
is, therefore, no doubt of the correctness of the current identification of this species. 
We have two young examples sent by Dr. Doderleiu from Palermo. These 
agree entirely with young examples from America. All of the large examples which 
we have seen have the anal angulated as in M. falcata. Doderleiu makes no mention 
