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bb. Sides without cross-bands. 
c. Skull with interorbital area, narrow, convex, hard and thickened {Petrometopon Gill) ; body, 
head and fins more or less covered with scarlet or orange spots ; about four round, 
inky spots along base of dorsal ; lower jaw not strongly projecting ; caudal fin much 
rounded; scales rather large (lat. 1. about 80) Cruentatus, 58. 
X. Color reddish gray, with many vermilion spots, those most distinct on top of head. 
var. cruentatus. 
XX. Color dusky olive, the spots dark orange red, those on the head obscure. 
var. coronatus. 
eo. Skull with the interorbital area channeled, the bones thin and smooth (Enneaeentrus) ; head and 
body with few or many small, blue, dark-edged spots ; lower jaw strongly projecting. 
d. Snout with one or two blue stripes; back of tail without conspicuous black blotch; caudal 
rounded; scales small (lat. 1. about 115) T^niops, 59. 
dd. Snout without stripes; back of tail with tvvo black spots; lower jaw with a black spot at 
tip; caudal subtruncate; scales moilerate (lat. 1. about 90) Fulvcs, 60. 
/. Ground color lemon-yellow; blue spots few var. fulvus. 
ff. Ground color bright scarlet var. ruber. 
fff. Ground color brown yur. punctatus. 
aa. Caudal fin luuate; body covered with blue spots. (Menephoi-us Poe^.) 
e. Body rather deep ; preoperole evenly convex, without salient angle ; mouth small, the lower 
jaw much projecting; gill-rakers slender, long, about x -f- 20 ; color carmine red, the 
head, back, and sides more or less covered with blue, dark-edged points; caudal tips 
black ; some dark spots on maxillary and about eye Dubius, 61. 
57. BODIANUS PANAMENSIS. 
Serranus panamemis Steindachner, Ichth. Beitriige, IV, 1, 1871, with plate (Panama). 
Enneaeentrus panamensia Jordan & Swain, 1. c. 398 (copied). 
Habitat. — Panama. 
Etymology. — Panamensis, from Panama, where the species was first fonnd. 
This species is known to us from Dr. SteindachnePs description. 
Serranus gymnopareius, Ouv. & Val., TI, 248 (from unknown locality ) ; resembles 
this species somewhat, but it is probably not American. 
Hpinephelus striatus Bloch Ichth., taf. 330, said to be from Jamaica ; is also 
unknown to us. Cuvier and Valenciennes regard this species as probably identical 
with the gymnopareius. In any case, the name striatus is preoccupied by Hpinephelus 
striatus. Bodianus gymnopareius is said to resemble Serramts scriba in form, but it is 
especially distinguished by having the precopercle for the most part bare of scales ; 
seven or eight brown bands across the body; some traces of a dark longitudinal 
band; caudal truncate ; D. IX, 17; A. Ill, 7. It is described from a small, stuffed 
specimen. 
58. BODIANUS CRUENTATUS. 
(Enjambre; Coney; Bough Hind.) 
a. Scarlet variety {cruentatus). 
Perea guttata Bloch, IchthyoL, pi. 312, 1792 (description and figure from a drawing by Plumier) ; not 
of Linnaeus. 
Serranus guttatus Castleuau, Auim. nouv, ou rares, S. Amer., 1854, 312 (Brazil). 
Enneaeentrus guttatus Jordan & Swain, 1. c. 399 (Havana). 
Sparus cruentatus Lac6pbde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 157, tab. 4, f. 1, 1803 (on a copy of Plumier’s 
drawing.). 
Serranus apiarius Poey, Memoriae Cuba, II, 143, 1860 (Havana). 
Petrometopon apiarius, Poey, Synopsis Pise. Cubeus., 1868, 288; Poey, Enum. Pise. Cubens., 1875, 20 
(name only). 
