‘ce DR) 
230 — REPORT—1845. 
Biblioth. Banks; Jcon. Reeves, 93; Hardw. Acanth. 29 & 33. Chinese 
~ name, Hwa mei tsaou (Birch); Hwa mei tso, “ Painted eye-brow” (Reeves); 
Wa mii tso (Bridgem. Chrest. 68). 
A common Chinese fish, and in all the collections. Most of the Chinese specimens have 
the fifth line below the pectoral, which is often wanting in examples from other quarters; and 
one specimen in the Chinese collection at Hyde Park has the lateral black mark so frequent 
in the Diacopes. 
Hab. Red sea, Mauritius, Polynesia, Australia, Malay archipelago, Chinese and Japanese 
seas. 
PLEecTROPOMA LEOPARDUS, Lacépéde (Holocentrus), iv. p. 332 et 337. 
Plectropoma leopardinum, C. et V. ii. p. 392. t. 36; Temm. et Schl. 
Faun. Japon. Sieb. p. 12. 
Hab. Seas of Japan and Australia. 
PLecTROPOMA susukKI, C. et V. ii. p. 404; Temm. et Schl. F.J. p. 11. pl. 4. 
f.1 (upper figure); Icon. Reeves, a. 34; Hardw. Acanth. 25, Chinese 
name, Tsing shih pan (Birch); Ching sheh pan, “Blue garoupa” (Reeves) ; 
Shik pan u (Bridgem. Chrest. 59). 
Mr. Reeves states this to be the commonest of the Serrani or Garoupas on the Chinese coast. 
Hab. Coasts of China and Japan. 
(Merous.) 
SERRANUS ALTIVELIS, C. et V. ii. p. 324. t. 25; Icon. Reeves, 267; Hardw. 
Acanth. 67. Chinese name, To yu, “Carrier fish” (Birch); Ming yu 
(Reeves). Rad. D.10|18 vel19; A.3|9 vel 10; P.15. (Spec. Brit. Mus.) 
The British Museum possesses a specimen obtained in one of Cook’s voyages, and one 
brought from China by John Reeves, Esq. Sir Edward Belcher also obtained one in his 
voyage in the Sulphur. 
Hab. Javan and Chinese seas. 
SERRANUS GILBERTI, Richardson, Ann. Nat. Hist. March 1842. vol. ix. p. 
19; Icon. Reeves, 257 ; Hardw. Acanth. 26. Chinese name, Hwé paou 
yu, “Spotted leopard fish;” Fa hou yu, “ Spotted garoupa” (Reeves). 
Rad. D. 11/17; A. 3|9; C. 153; P.17; V.1|5. (Spec. Brit. Mus.) 
This is one of the Serrani which bear a close resemblance to merra, and are perhaps merely 
varieties of that species. It is a common fish in the southern seas, yet I have not been able 
to identify it with any of the numerous species or varieties described in the ‘ Histoire des 
Poissons.’ In the British Museum there are examples from China and North Australia which 
do not differ from each other. 
Hab. Torres straits. China seas. 
SERRANUS MEGACHIR, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 113; Hardw. Acanth. 
98. Chinese name, Tue mei pan, “ Tortoise-shell garoupa” (Reeves). 
Rad. D.11|15; A. 3|8; C.128; P.15; V.1|5. (Spec. Brit. Mus.) 
This is another merou, almost identical in the markings of its body and fins with gélberti, 
but distinguished from it and from merra by the greater size of its pectoral fin, which is edged 
with black and reaches beyond the anus. The only species described in the Fauna Japonica’ 
which resembles this, is the S. epistictus, and that has the spots on the fore part of the body 
ranged in three rows, which coalesce into one row posteriorly, The “ tortoise-shell merou” 
grows to the length of a foot. There are examples of it in the Chinese collection at Hyde 
Park and in the British Museum, the latter presented by Mr. Reeves. 
Hab. Coasts of China. 
SERRANUS EPISTIcTUS, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 8. 
None of Mr, Reeves’s drawings correspond with the description of this species, nor have we 
seen any Chinese specimens of it, 
Hab. Japanese sea, 
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