210 © REPORT—1845, 
PHILYPNUS SINENSIS, Lacépéde (Le bostryche chinois), iii. p. 141. pl. 2. 
Gobius sinensis, C. et V. xii. p. 94. Philypnus ocellicauda, Richardson, 
Zool. Sulph. pp. 59 & 149. pl. 56. f.15, 16; Icon. Reeves, 3, 8; Hardw. 
Acanth. Chinese name, Neaou yu, “ Bird-fish” (Birch); Oo yu, “ Black 
fish” (Reeves) ; Ow yu (Bridgem. Chrest. 7). 
_ In the ‘ Zoology of the Voyage of the Sulphur’ I have described and figured a Chinese spe- 
cimen of this fish, which was presented to the British Museum by John Reeves, Esq., but I 
was not then aware that it had been previously named by Lacépéde, who had merely seen a 
Chinese drawing of it. His designation is here restored in right of its priority. 
Hab. Canton. 
Tribus Percina. 
Fam. CALLIONYMIDZ&. 
CALLionyMmus REEveEsII, Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulph. p. 60. pl. 36 ; 
Icon. Reeves, 180; Hardw. Acanth. 
Rad. D.4|-9; A.8; C.11; P. 19; V. 15. (Male) 
D.4|-9; A.9; C.10; P.19; V.1|5. (Females.) 
Since I described a male of this species in the work above quoted, I have examined two 
examples brought from Macao by the Rev. George Vachell, which I consider to be females, 
and to justify my quotation of Mr. Reeves’s figure as appertaining to this species. The latter 
drawing is a good representation of these specimens, except that it shows but a small portion 
of the black mark between the third and fourth rays of the comparatively low first dorsal, the 
fin-membrane of the individual placed before the Chinese artist having evidently been torn. 
Neither of the specimens has an anal tubercle: both of them have three recurved teeth on the 
upper side of the long preopercular spine, and one ef them has moreover a strong basal tooth 
beneath pointing forwards, while the other has merely a slight indication of an under-tooth 
near the middle of the spine. 
Hab. Hong Kong. Macao, 
CALLionyMus japonicus, Houttuyn, Stockholm Trans. 1790. p. 107; BI. 
Schn. p. 40, “Rad. D. 4|-10; A.9; C.10; P.19; V. 5,” loc. cit, 
“ C, capitis spind simplici postice interius serratd, margine orbitarum elevato acuto, pinnd dor- 
sali prima brevissimd, ocello nigro notatd, pinnis nigro maculatis, caudali valde elongata.” 
(Schn.) I strongly suspect that Houttuyn’s fish is identical with that which I have considered 
to be the female of C. reevesii, though the caudal fin is longer than in Mr. Vachell’s specimens, 
and shorter than that of the male figured in the ‘ Ichthyology of the Voyage of the Sulphur.’ 
Hab. Japan. 
CALLIONyMUs PuNcTATUS, Langsdorff, Mus. Berol. C. japonicus, C. et V. 
xii. p. 299. 
M, Valenciennes considers a Japanese Callionymus, deposited by M. Langsdorff in the 
museum of the University of Berlin, to be specifically the same with the C. japonicus of 
Houttuyn noticed above, but as he states that M. Langsdorff’s fish has a curved preopercular 
spine, with three spreading upper spinous teeth turned forwards (en patte d'oie), this can 
scarcely be reconciled with the description of the spine of japonicus. C. punctatus has asmall 
tooth on the hinder part of the orbit which does not exist in C. reevesii. 
Hab. Japan. 
CaALLionyMus HINDsII, Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulphur, p. 64. pl. 87. 
f. 3, 4. 
A Macao specimen of this fish was presented to the Cambridge Philosophical Institution by 
the Rev. George Vachell. It does not possess the post- orbital tooth of punctatus. 
Hab. Pacific ocean (Sir E. Belcher). China seas. Canton (Vachell), 
HopLicutuys LANGsporFii, C. et V. iv. p. 265, t. 81. 
Schlegel states, in the ‘ Fauna Japonica,’ that the anatomy of this fish shows its real affinities 
to be with Callionymus. In the text of the ‘ Histoire des Poissons,’ the initial H. of the generic 
name has been inadvertently omitted, but the word is correctly printed “ J7oplichthys”’ in the 
table of contents at the beginning of the volume. 
Hab, Japan. 
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