220° REPORT—1845, oO. (OV NTHOT AT KO 
The belly is tile-red, while the fins have a colour approaching more to carmine, but the mem- 
branes of the ventrals and anal are mostly orpiment-orange. A dull reddish-brown tinges 
the front of the head. and a more lively carmine the lips and corners of the mouth. Along 
the middle of the olive-coloured preorbitar there is a dark streak, and another marks out its 
lower edge. A peach-blossom red spot is placed on the top of the tail immediately behind the 
second dorsal. 
Hab. Canton. 
UpeEneus RUSSELI, C. et V. iii. p.465. Rahtee goolivinda, Russell, pl. 157. 
Mullus indicus, Shaw, Zool. iv. p. 614; Icon. Reeves, a. 36; Hardw. 
Acanth. 102. Chinese name, Z'sing fei te (Birch); Ching fe te (Reeves). 
Rad. D.9|-9; A.1\7; C.144; P.16; V.1|5. (Brit. Mus. spec.) 
An injured specimen of this fish, procured at Canton by the Rev. George Vachell, exists in 
the museum of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and there are two from the same place 
in the British Museum, presented by John Reeves, Esq., which differ from the drawing merely 
in the black spot on the top of the tail being a little further back. The species belongs to 
the same group with biaculeatus, which it resembles in figure, and the Chinese appellation iss 
the same with a distinctive epithet added. 
The first spine of the dorsal is very short and incumbent on the base of the second, while 
the last spine is very small, recumbent and not easily detected, so that only seven may be 
reckoned, unless on minute inspection. Joints exist at top of the first ray of the second 
dorsal, and the point of the anal spine is flexible. The operculum has two small spinous points, 
and its anterior border is striated. The scales are granular and reticulate on their outer 
margin, minutely pitted on the disc, and furrowed and granulated towards the base. Each 
scale of the lateral line is marked by a little torch, that is, a cluster of many simple or merely 
forked short branchlets supported on a thickish tubular stem. 
The colours are pretty well described by Russell. In Mr. Reeves’s figure a short blue line 
runs from the orbit to the nostril, another borders the preorbitar beneath, and three descend 
from the temples to the cheek and gill-cover. The large anterior lateral spot is of a bright 
gamboge, and the posterior one is purplish-black. Five orange-coloured streaks cross the 
anal obliquely. 
Hab. Indian and China seas. 
UpenEus BENSASI, Temm. et Schl. F. J. p. 30. pl. 11. f. 2. “ Japanese name, 
Bensasi.” 
Hab. Seas of Japan. 
Uveneus TRAGULA, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, a.21; Hardw. Acanth. 105. 
Chinese name, Yang tswan, “Ocean borer” (Birch); “ Sea arrow” (Reeves); 
Yéung tsiin, (Bridgem. Chrest. 229). Rad. D. 7. vel 8|-1|8; A. 1|6, &c. 
This species is allied to sub-vitiatus, dubius and others of the same group which have 
banded caudals. Mr. Reeves presented a Canton specimen to the British Museum, and I 
have received two from Surgeon R. A. Bankier, R. N., procured at Hong Kong. The short 
tubes on the scales of the lateral line are for the most part divided, and one of the branches is 
generally notched at the end, while the other emits very short transverse branchlets. The 
whole cluster on each scale looks to the naked eye to be merely a club-shaped tube. Narrow 
bands of minute, slender but bluntish teeth, arm the jaws and edges of the palate-bones, and 
there are still smaller ones on the chevron of the vomer. The barbels reach to the preoper- 
culum. A more slender fish than vittatus and less so than t@niopterus. Blackish-green ; 
upper half of the body traversed by a pale streak, commencing at the eye and coincident at 
first with the lateral line, but running above it in its course through the tail. Round purplish 
dots are distributed equally over the whole body, but are most conspicuous on the lower sil- 
very parts. On the cheeks, the specks are dark umber, smaller and not round. The dorsals 
are darkish, especially towards their tips, with obscure bars in the specimens, and on the second 
the darker colour forms a large blotch. Six dark brown bars cross the caudal. The anal 
and ventrals are roseate with round dots, which are deep reddish-brown on the ventrals. 
Hab. Canton. 
Uvenevs pusius, Temm. et Schl. F. J. p. 30. pl. 11. f. 3. 
Hab. Seas of Japan. 
There remains two of Mr. Reeves’s figures, which we are unable to place in their proper 
groups from ignorance of their dentition. One of them, named Yang chuey, “ Foreign mullet” 
(Icon. Reeves, a. 44; Hardw. 103), has the external form of Up. bensasi, which enters the first 
division of the genus, but it wants the bands and spots on the fins of that species. 
