ON THE ICHTHYOLOGY OF THE SEAS OF CHINA AND JAPAN. 237 
figure in the ‘Fauna Japonica,’ just as a recent specimen from one that has become flaccid in 
spirits and lost its plumpness and height. The vertical bands are also fainter in the drawing, 
and the fins have a deep saffron-yellow or Dutch-orange colour instead of the pale primrose 
tint shown in the ‘Fauna Japonica.’ Teeth villiform with an outer row of stouter ones. 
Lower jaw teeth shorter. A very minute bony point on the edge of the gill-cover. A flat, 
acute, suborbitar tooth, with a point beneath its base. Edge of the suborbitar under the pos- 
terior third of the orbit strongly serrated. We have seen a drawing of a Scolopsides, executed 
at the islands of Houtman’s Abrolhos, on the west coast of Australia, by Lieut. Emery, of the 
Royal Navy, which strongly resembles this fish; but the fins have only a yellow border and 
are otherwise colourless, 
Hab. Seas of China and Japan. 
ScoLorsipEs pomoris, Richardson. Jcon. Reeves, 3.15; Hardw. Acanth. 
Chinese names, Shih hei, “ Stone robber” (Reeves); Shih tset (Birch). 
Though this drawing does not exhibit the peculiar suborbitar tooth of the genus, I am in- 
duced, in the absence of specimens, from its near resemblance to the preceding two species, 
to refer it to Scolopsides ; and if this reference be correct, it possesses specific marks in the jet 
black tip of the gill-cover, and in a black speck on the base of the upper pectoral ray. It has 
the yellow fins and bright carmine spot on the gill-cover of the preceding species ; but its back 
is browner and its profile undulated. Length of the drawing 6 inches. 
Hab. Chinese sea. Canton. 
LogotEs 1ncurvus, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 168; Hardw. Acanth. 76. 
Rad. D. 12|15; A. 3/11; P.17, &c. (Spec. Br. Mus.) 
This fish has the blackish hue of Lobotes farkarii, but not the orange-coloured fins, and it 
has a more deeply incurved profile and higher fins than any species described in the ‘ Histoire 
des Poissons.’ f 
Head scaly to orbit and forward on the cheek to the angle of the mouth, also the disc of the 
preoperculum. Edge of this bone spinosely dentate all round. Gill-cover, with a rounded 
projecting bony point and no sinus above it, scaly to the edge. Supra axillary plates of co- 
racoid bone with fourteen teeth. Soft,dorsal, anal caudal and base of pectoral scaly. Spines 
strongly striated. Outer row of teeth subulato-conical, inclined backwards, rather taller on 
the sides of the lower jaw. Within the upper jaw a narrow band of granular teeth. On the 
lower jaw the interior teeth are in a single row and very minute. In the drawing the sides 
and head are densely clouded with blackish purple mixed on the base of the fins, and towards 
the lower parts with siskin-green. The soft dorsal, anal and caudal are blacker, and the lat- 
ter is edged obscurely above and below with yellow or pale green. The pectoral is clay- 
coloured; the ventrals and spinous dorsal clouded with neutral tint. Length 12 inches, 
Hab. China seas. Canton. 
LogoTtes ciTRiINus, Richardson. Jcon. Reeves, 191; Hardw. Acanth. 168. 
This species has the pale bar on the extremity of the caudal fin and some other colours 
ascribed to Lobotes erate in the ‘ Histoire des Poissons,’ particularly to the specimens which 
M. Dussumier brought from the coast of Malabar (v. p. 323); but the height of the body is 
greater, being equal to half the length of the fish, caudal fin excluded, and I have therefore 
thought it expedient to give it a provisional specific name. The Chinese collection at Hyde 
Park contains specimens which I have very cursorily examined. The ground colour in Mr. 
Reeves’s drawing is dull lemon-yellow, with obscure purplish clouding, a purplish black shading 
round the eye, on the tip of the gill-cover, the nape and bases of the vertical fins and pec- 
torals. The pectorals are pale and transparent, the rest of the fins are blackish, more or less 
clouded, and the soft dorsal and anal are bordered with buff-orange. 
Hab. China seas. Canton. 
PRIACANTHUS BENMEBARI, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p.19. pl. 7. f. 1. 
Krusenst. 53. f.2. Rad. D.10|13; A.3|14; C. 163; P.19; V.1|5. 
The British Museum possesses two of Biirger’s Japanese specimens. In them the end of 
the caudal is concave, not convex, as in the figure in the ‘ Fauna Japonica ;’ and the scales are 
not so rough as in most other species. 
Hab. Sea of Japan. 
PRIACANTHUS TAYENUS, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 3.14; Hardw. Acanth. 
