Third dorsal spine 2 7/8 in head; second anal spine 
2 2/3; rounded caudal 1 2/3; pectoral 1 2/3; ventral 2 1/10. 
Color in alcohol dubl umber-brown, marked everyehere with 
sparse dark brown spots, mostly rounded and about size of 
pupil. Seft dorsal, anal and caudal edges apparently very 
narrowly whitish. Pectoral and ventral with smaller spots than 
bedy. ‘Yength 190 mm, Samoa, 
We compared this example with examples in the Academy of 
% areolatus(Forskal), from Sumatra and the Philippines, but 
pinephelys ll 
which were wrongly listed by Fowler as En maculatus, hile 
the two species are quite similar in their spotted coloration, 
the spots ef eur Samean E. maculatus are more sparse, very 
much larger and fewer on the fins; the larger spines at the 
preopercular angle are much less conspicuous; the maxillary 
reaches well beyond the eye, while in E. areolatus it exe 
tends little beyond the eye center, etc, 
SGA TS 32 ENE SR a 
Journ, Acad.Nat,Sci.Phila.,(2) vol.12,1904, p.524, 
Copeia, no, 58, June 18, 1918, p. 63, 
perranys is 
Bpinephetus fasciatus (Forskal). 
Head 2 2/5 te 28; depth 3 1/5 te 34; D. XI, 15, te 17, 
i; A. III, 8, 13; scales 92 to 111 in lateral line te caudal 
base and 8 to 12 large scales on latter; tubes 67 to 70 in 
lateral line to caudal base and 5 te 8 more on latter; 15 te 
20 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsel origin; 11 or 
12 te sixth dorsal spine base, 25 te 32 below te spinous anal 
