THE 
SPOTTED EPINEPHELUS. 
Generic Character . 
Head entirely covered with fcales: anterior Gill- 
Cover ferrated, posterior fpiny. 
Specific Character, &c. 
White EPINEPHELUS, with numerous fub- 
hexagonal brown fpots. 
Le MERRA. 
Bloch t. 329. 
The fpotted Epinephelus is a native of the Japo- 
nefe fea, and is about a foot in length. Linnaeus 
would doubtlefs have placed it the genus Perea. 
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