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The Rev. George Vachell has deposited a Canton specimen in the museum of the Cambridge 
Philosophical Society. sbi 
Hab. Seas of China and Japan. 
Gerres punctatus, C. et V. vi. p. 480. Woodan, Russell, 68? Icon. 
Reeves, 260; Hardw. Acanth. 149. Chinese name, Hae tsih (Birch, 
Reeves); ‘“ Sea tsih” (Reeves ). 
Mr. Reeves’s figure, probably from an oversight of the artist, shows four anal spines. 
Hab. Indian ocean and China seas. 
GERRES ? Icon. Reeves, 3.39; Hardw. Acanth. 
This drawing evidently represents another species of Gerres, having less elongation of the 
anterior dorsal spines, and wanting the vertical faint purple bands; but the drawing is less 
precise in its details than in most others of this admirable collection, and in the absence of 
specimens we cannot ascertain whether it be a described species or not. Its Chinese appel- 
lation is the same with that of the punctatus. 
Hab. China seas. 
Dirrema, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 77. pl. 40. f.2. “ Rad. B.6; D. 
10|22; A. 3|27; P.19; C.16; V. 1|5.” (Fauna Jap.) 
Hab. Sea of Japan. 
CuetorTerus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 7. pl. 37.f.2. “ Rad. B. 4; 
D. 10/10; A. 3i8; C.18; P.17; V. 1|5.” (Fauna Jap.) ) 
Hab. Sea of Japan, 
Fam. SpARIDE. 
CurysoPurys ARIES, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 67. pl. 31. 
A Chinese specimen exists in the collection at Hyde Park. Incisors between chisel-shaped 
and conical. 
Hab. Japanese and Chinese seas. 
CHuRYSOPHRYS TUMIFRONS, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 70. pl. 34. 
A specimen of Biirger’s in the British Museum has the hind head less high, and the pre- 
orbitar one-third lower than the figure in the ‘ Fauna Japonica.’ 
Hab. Sea of Japan. 
Curysopurys MAJOR, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 71. pl. 35. 
Hab. Sea of Japan. 
Curysopurys BERDA, Forskal (Sparus), p. 32; C. et V. vi. p.113 ; Ruppell, 
Neue Wirlb. p. 120. taf. 27. f.4. Sparus hasta, Bl. Schn. p.275; Icon. 
Reeves, 223; Hardw. Acanth.75. Rad. D.11|11; A. 3|8, &c. (Spec. Chin. 
coll.) 
Specimens of this fish exist in the Chinese collection at Hyde Park and in the British Mu- 
seum, the latter brought from Canton by John Reeves, Esq. In Mr. Reeves’s drawing the 
large pectoral is ochraceous, the rest of the fish gray, with a yellowish gloss on the belly, and 
the base of each scale blackish-gray. The lips are thick, and the fish has a scieenoid aspect. 
It is compared by Mr. Reeves with Diagramma cinctum. 
Hat. Red sea, Indian ocean, and China. 8 
Curysopurys LONGISPINIS, C. et V. p. 116; Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. 
p- 68. pl. 32. 
One of Biirger’s specimens in the British Museum has the preoperculum streaked on the 
disc and pectinately toothed on its vertical edge, the teeth bluntish, and concealed by mem= 
brane in the recent fish. A narrow, flat, blunt, bony point terminates the operculum behind 
the tip of the gill-flap. First anal spine very short, third one slender, second stouter and 
longer. 
Hab. Sea of Japan. 
