216. . +, REPORTS 1845. wyotin, sw KO 
An. 1793; C. et V. iv. p. 318; Temm. et Schl. F. J. p. 42. pl. 17. f. 2, 3. 
“ Japanese name, Oiarakabu.” 
The British Museum possesses one of Biirger’s Japanese specimens. 
Hab. Indian ocean and sea of Japan, 
ScorP#NA NEGLECTA, Temm. et Schl. F. J. p. 43. pl. 17. f. 4. Rad. 
D. 12| 9; A.3l5; C.11 ; P.9et11; V.1|5. (Fauna Jap. 
D. 12/10; 3\5; 134; P.8et.8; V. 1)5...( Dried spec. 
To this species I am inclined to refer five or six small specimens which I picked out of the 
China insect-boxes, chiefly because they have a black spot between the seventh and ninth dor- 
sal rays. The spines, intra-orbitar ridges, &c., correspond with the descriptions and figure in 
the ‘Fauna Japonica ;’ but the length of the lower preorbitar, which almost equals that of an 
Apistes, is not noticed in that work. The specimens are much damaged, though the barbel be- 
tween the posterior superciliary spines is still visible. The cheek is not scaly, and in this 
the species differs from the Scorpena militaris (Ichth. Ereb. and Terr.) of Yan Diemen’s Land, 
which in most other respects it closely resembles, Edge of the palate-bones and chevron of the 
vomer set with teeth. Scales finely ciliated. 
Hab. Coasts of China and Japan. 
ScorPENA LEONINA, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 66; Hardw. Acanth. 116. 
Chinese name, Shih sze tsze, “ Stone-lion,” such as are placed before 
houses (Birch); ‘“ Stone-lion’s whelp” (Reeves); Shih tz tsz (Bridgem. 
Chrest. 116). 
This species much resembles a Platycephalus, in the flatness of its head and the manner in 
which the rows of its strong spines are tiled upon each other. A pretty tall-feathered barbel 
rises from the posterior third of the orbit, and there are many others on the lower jaw and 
under corner of the maxillary and preoperculum, also numerous small ones on the flanks, The 
ground tint of the sides, which is reddish-brown, is clouded by largish masses of dark umber, 
the belly being paler and the summit of the back dark. The vertical fins are irregularly and 
obliquely barred with umber, and the pectorals are, marked also by three cross bars formed by 
umbrine spots on the rays. Iris and tip of the caudal reddish. These particulars are noted 
solely from Mr. Reeves’s figure. A specimen of the fish exists in the Chinese collection at Hyde 
Park, but I have not as yet examined it. 
Hab. Canton. 
CENTRIDERMICHTHYS UNCINATUS, Temm. et Schl. (Cottus), F. J. p. 38; 
Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulph. p. 74. pl. 54. f. 6-10 (C. ansatus). 
Rad. B.6; D. 8|-19; A.17; C. 912; P.17; V. 1/4. 
It is very probably a fish of this genus, which was observed by Steller at Cape Cronok and 
the mouth of the Itschia, and named by him Co¢tus villosus (Pall. Zoogr. Ross. p. 129). He 
states that it has three barbels on the lower jaw, and compares it to a Platycephalus, which 
Centridermichthys in fact considerably resembles. Tilesius, on the other hand, seems to have 
mistaken for Cottus villosus the Aploactes aspera noticed above, which is by no means like a 
Platycephalus. 
Several specimens of Centridermichthys uncinatus, procured at Woosung in the estuary of the 
Yang tsee kiang kew by Sir Everard Home, were presented by him to the College of Surgeons, 
Another species inhabits the American coasts on the opposite side of the Pacific, viz. C. asper 
(Richardson, Fauna Boreal. Amer. pl. 95. f. 1). 
Hab. China seas. 
Hemitepipotus ties, C. et V. iv. p. 276. t. 85. Cottus hemilepidotus, 
Tilesius, Mém. de Pétersb. iii. p. 262. pl. 11. Cottus trachurus, Pallas, 
Zoogr. Ross. p. 138. 
Hab. Japan, Sagalien, sea of Ochotsk, Kurile islands and north-western shores of America. 
PLATYCEPHALUS INSIDIATOR, Bloch, Schn. p. 59. P. spatula, id. p. 59. 
Batrachus indicus, id. p. 43. Callionymus indicus, Lin. — Cotte made- 
casse, Lacép. iii. p. 248. pl. 11. f.1,2. PI. insidiator, C. et V. iv. p. 227; 
Temm. et Schl. F. J. p. 39. pl. 15. f.1; Icon. Bl. pl. 424; Russell ({rrwa), 
1. 46. 
ae Rev. George Vachell brought a specimen from Canton, which is now in tae museum of 
the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 
Hab. Red sea, Indian ocean, Moluccas, and seas of China and Japan. 
