278 REPORT—1845. MP, us 
bluish- or blackish-gray towards their borders, The spots as in chinensis, with the addition 
of a few on the ventrals. 
Hab. Chinese coasts: Canton. 
PLATESSA VELAFRACTA, Icon. Reeves, 105; Hardw. Malac. 264. Chinese 
name, Hwa po pung, “ Variegated sail-fish” (Birch); Fa po pang, “ Va- 
riegated broken mat” (Reeves); Fa po pung (Bridgem. Chrest. 145). 
This drawing differs little in appearance from 107, Platessa chinensis. The ground tint 
and shadings are nearly the same, the black spots want the pale borders, and the blotches on 
the fins run into each other and form a border of grayish-black. The caudal is less rhom- 
boidal and more rounded at the end. 
Hab. Coasts of China. Canton. 
PLATESssA BALTEATA; Icon. Reeves, 205; Hardw. Malac. 259. Chinese 
name, Po piing, “ Broken sail” (Birch); Po pung, “ Broken mat flounder” 
(Reeves, Bridgem. Chrest. 54). 
This has the same Chinese appellation with chrysoptera which follows, the same regularly 
oval form and the brownish-red ground tint, interspersed with a few small darker points and 
crossed by several dark brown bands, one on the nape, another broad one behind the pec- 
torals, a forked one further back, and a narrow one on the tail. The vertical fins are speckled 
with dark brown, Caudal rhomboidal. Length of drawing 74 inches, 
Hab. Coasts of China. Canton. 
Piatessa curysopterA, Bloch, Schn. (Pleuronectes), p. 151? Icon. 
Reeves, 104; Hardw. Malac. 260. Chinese name, Po pung, “ Broken 
sail” (Birch); Po pang, “ Broken mat” (Reeves); Po pung (Bridgem. 
Chrest. 54). 
Mr. Reeves’s drawing 104 answers better than any other one in his portfolio to the short 
characters of chrysoptera contained in Schneider's edition of Bloch, and this is our only rea- 
son for considering it to be the same species. 
The ground tint of the drawing is brownish-red or orange-coloured brown, with iumerous 
minute specks of umber and irregular rings of the same equally dispersed over the body with 
paler dull areas. The fins are wax-yellow, with reddish rays spotted with brown. Caudal 
fin subrhomboidal. Length of specimen 10 inches. 
A specimen in the Chinese collection at Hyde Park has conical teeth on the lower jaw and 
near the symphysis of the upper one, with smaller ones laterally, and a prominent smooth 
acute iriterorbital ridge. 
Hab. Chinese coasts. Canton. 
PLATESSA ASPERRIMA, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. pl. 91. (Letter-press not 
yet published.) 
Hab. Sea of Japan. 
-HippoGiossus pENTEX, Richardson, Ichth. of Sulph. p. 102. pl. 47. eon. 
Reeves, 195; Hardw. Malac. 267. Chinese name, 7so how, “ Mouth on 
the left” (Birch); Tso hau, “ Left mouth” (Reeves); Tso hau (Bridgem. 
Chrest. 147). Rad. B.7; D.47; A. 33; C.18; P.17; V. a 
Hab. Coasts of China. Canton. 
HiprocLossus ORTHORHYNCHUS, Icon. Reeves, 106; Hardw. Malac. 266. 
Chinese name, Ching pe, “ Straight nosed” (Birch); “ True nose” 
(Reeves); Ching pi (Bridgem. Chrest. 146). 
We have seen no specimen of this. The figure represents the dorsal as commencing much 
further back than in the preceding; the ground colour as broccoli-brown, with a darker 
clove-brown bar running between the middles of the dorsal and anal, 4nd blénding with bars 
or shadings of the same tint which cover shoulder and arch over the pectoral. The vertical 
fins are also broccoli-brown, with a few obscure darker blotches. Pectorals yellowish-brown 
with fine dark speckling. 
Hab. Coasts of China. Canton. 
