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PEGASUS LATIROSTRIS, Richardson. 
Specimens exist in the British Museum, and are occasionally to be met with in the Chinese 
insect-boxes. They have the general form of P. draco, but the beak is nearly as broad as it 
is long. As in the others, the beak is grooved in the centre above and below, and the edges 
of the upper groove are elevated so as to form a furrowed crest with an irregular outline. The 
flat lateral plates of the snout are transversely ridged, and toothed on the edges by the points 
of the ridges. In /aternarius the edges of the inferior groove of the beak are elevated, and 
the mesial line above is partially so, making seven ridges. The whole is shorter and much 
narrower than that either of draco or latirostris, yet specimens of the latter with the lateral 
edges of the beak mutilated may be mistaken for it. 
Hab. Sea of China. 
SoLenosTomus PARADOXUS, Pallas, Spic. viii. p.32. t.4. £.6 (Fistularia). 
Seba, 3. 34. f. 2; Bl. Schn. p. 114. t. 30. f. 2. 
Hab, Amboyna. Probably China? Some Chinese drawings appear to be extravagant 
representations of this fish. 
Ordo CTENOBRANCHII. 
Fam. Lopuiip@. 
Loruius seTicERus, Wahl, in skrivter af naturh. iv. p. 215. tab. 3. f. 5, 6. 
L. viviparus, Bl. Schn. p. 142. t: 32. LZ setigerus, C. et V. xii. p. 383; 
Icon. Reeves, 161; Hardw. 299. Chinese name, Shin ma yu, “Quiver- 
ing flax-fish” (Birch); Chin ma yu (Reeves); Chan ma u (Bridgem. 
Chrest. 51). Aad. D.3-8; A.9; C.9; P.17; V. 15. 
Small specimens of this fish, pinned down and dried, abound in the boxes of insects sold 
. at the Chinese ports to foreigners. ‘The museum at Haslar contains several of a larger size, 
taken in the China seas by Sir Edward Belcher, but they have been unfortunately consider- 
ably injured by friction during their voyage to England. Mr. Reeves’s drawing of the 
recent fish leaves however little to be desired. In form it agrees with Bloch’s figure, but 
the latter exaggerates the spines of the head. The humeral or coracoid spine is alike in both 
representations. The general colour is hair-brown, finely marbled by a lighter tint on the 
upper surface of the body and pectoral fins. A blackish mark speckled with white occupies 
the pectoral axilla. The caudal is less sharply banded than in Bloch’s figure; a pinkish hue 
spreads over the anal, which, like the dorsal, is unspotted. 
Hab. The Japanese and China seas. Canton. 
CHEIRONECTES RANINUS, Tilesius, Mém. de Moscou, xi. pl. 16. Ch. mar- 
moratus, Cuy., Less. et Garnot, Voy. du Duperrey, pl. 16. f.2; C. et V. 
xii. p. 402. 
M. Valenciennes considers the New Guinea Cheironectes, procured by the naturalists of Za 
Coquille, to be the same with that previously discovered on the coasts of Japan and named by 
Tilesius. 
Hab. Coasts of Japan and New Guinea. 
HAievTEA sTELLATA, Wahl. (ZLophius), Mém. d’Hist. Nat. de Copenh. 
iv. p. 214. t. 3. an. 1797; Tilesius, Voy. de Krusenst. pl. 61. f.3 et 4. 
Lophius muricatus, Shaw, Zool. pl. 162; Icon. Reeves, 
Dried specimens of this fish exist in almost every ichthyological museum. Under surface 
coloured, in Mr. Reeves’s figure, of a bright lake-red. Upper surface aurora-red, clouded with 
reddish-brown, with many specks of lake and groups of small black spots, the whole having a 
freckled appearance. Fins bright lake-red with black edges. 
Hab, China and Japan. 
Tribus Cycroropr (Miller). 
Fam. EcHENEIDIDE. 
ECHENEIS NAUCRATES, Lin. Bl.171; Russell, 49. Australian remora, Griff. 
Cuv. 10, plate opposite to p. 504. Heheneis vittata, Riipp. Neue Wirlb. 
seite 82; Icon. Reeves, 97h ; Hardw. Malac. 286, 287. 
On comparing specimens from the Caribbean and African seas, Polynesia, Western Australia, 
and Bass’s straits, no difference of any importance was detected, except in the number of fin- 
