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eye over the suprasscapulars. The ventrals are blotched with purple and green, and there are 
- differences in the tints of less moment. It is a shorter fish than purpurascens. 
Hab. Seas of China and Japan. Canton. 
SERIOLA QUINQUERADIATA, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 115. pl. 62. f. 2. 
“ Rad. D. 5|-1|382; A. 2|-1]19; C. 22; P. 22; V. 1|5.”. (Fs J.) 
6|-1|31;  — 2|-1/20; P.20, &e. (Spec. Br. Mus.) 
It is probable that this is a mere variety of auro-vittata. In a specimen in the British 
Museum which was brought from China by Mr. Reeves, we found six spines in the first dorsal. 
This individual presented no other difference in form from auro-vittata, except that the teeth 
were a little shorter and more closely villiform. It measured ten inches, and the specimen 
of auro-vittata, with which it was carefully compared, exceeded it by only one inch. 
Hab. Seas of China and Japan. 
SeRIoLA INTERMEDIA, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 116. ‘Rad. D. 
7|-1|82; A.1|-1[15; C. 164; P.21; V.1|5.” (F. J.) 
Hab. Sea of Japan. 
Lactarius DELICATULUS, Bl. Schn. p. 31 (Scomber lactarius). C. et V. ix. 
p- 238 ; Chundawah, Russell, 108; Icon. Reeves, 170; Hardw. Acanth. 38 ; 
(Scales very deciduous) Reeves. 
Hab. China sea and Indian ocean. 
Nomeus mauritu, Cuv. Régn. An. 1" ed.ii. p. 315; C. et V. ix. p. 243. 
pl. 262 ( Seriola argyromelas). 
In Sir Edward Belcher’s collection several specimens of this fish were marked as having 
been taken in the China seas. They have not the marks of N. peronii, but correspond well 
with the figure of mauritii in the ‘ Histoire des Poissons.’ 
Hab. Brazils. Coast of Guinea and sea of China. 
EMMELICHTHYS SCHLEGELI, Richardson. Erythrichthys, Temm. et Schl. 
F. J. Sieb. p. 117. “pl. 63. f. 1.” r 
Hab. Sea ofJapan. 
The ninth decade of the Ichthyological part of the ‘Fauna Japonica’ has just reached me as 
this sheet is passing through the press, and I perceive by the figure of Erythrichthys in the 
63rd plate, that the genus is identical with the Australian one which I published in the ‘ Ich- 
thyology of the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror,’ on the Ist of March 1845. I do not know 
the date of the letter-press of the ‘ Fauna Japonica’ describing Erythrichthys. The Australian 
species differs in the form of its preorbitar and in the dorsal spines. The genus seems to me 
to be more allied to the Sparoid or Meznoid families than to the Scomberoid, from which it 
differs in its ptenoid scales, 
Scomsroprs, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 118. “pl. 63. f. 2.” 
Hab, Sea of Japan. 
CorypHaNA Japonica, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 120. pl, 64. 
Hab. Sea of Japan. 
STROMATEUS ARGENTEUS, Bloch, 421; C. et V. ix. p- 393; Icon. Reeves, 
B.32; Hardw.227. Chinese name, Tsang yu (Reeves, Birch); Tsong u 
(Bridgem. Chrest. 148). This is one of the most common fish brought to 
table during its season in China (Reeves). Rad. D.?|44; A.46; C.15; 
P. 24. (Dried spec. Br. Mus.) 
Mr. Reeves presented a specimen to the British Museum. No spines protrude through the 
skin in front of the dorsal, but six or seven interspinous bones show through the thick integu- 
ment. Two or three rays of the anal also are deeply concealed in the front of the fin. This 
specimen, compared with Russell’s figure of caxdidus (pl. 42), was found to differ in the po- 
sition of the anus relative to the anal fin, and to want the streaks in the supra-scapular region, 
there being only a few on thenape. The operculum itself is marked by strie diverging from 
its upper anterior corner. The profile is a little gibbous behind the eye, and as evenly curved 
asin candidus. The specimen measured 11} inches in length, and the figure 143; the body 
being 73 high in the latter. : 
Hab. China seas. Canton. Indian ocean. ) 
STROMATEUS NIGER, Bloch, 160 (Str. paru). C, et V.ix. p. 385. Nalla sanda- 
