ON THE ICHTHYOLOGY OF THE SEAS OF CHINA AND JAPAN. 279 
Hirrociossus GonioGRraApuicus, Icon. Reeves, 254; Hardw. Malac. 265. 
The ground colour of this drawing is yellowish-brown, marked like a map with large an- 
gular blotches of dark umber- or liver-brown, which extend to the caudal, and one or two of 
them also rtin out on the dorsal and anal. The membranes of the fin are between yellowish- 
brown and rust-coloured, and their rays are obscurely speckled. Five or six umber-brown 
bars cross the pectoral. Length of drawing 8% itiches. 
Hab. Coasts of China. Canton. ; 
Ruombus cinnamomeus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. pl. xciii. (Letter-press 
not yet published.) 
Hab. Sea of Japan. 
Samaris cristatus, Gray, Zool. Mise. p. 8; Zcon. Reeves, 171; Hardw. 
Malac. 268. “Rad. D.61; A. 51; C.16; P.4; V.5.” (Gray, lc.) 
Hab. Coasts of China. Canton. 
‘ Sonea OmMATURA, Richardson. Jeon. Reeves, 8.13 ; Hardw. Malac. 273, 
275. Chinese name, Hwa tat sha, “ Flowered or variegated sole” 
(Reeves); Hwa ta sha*, “Striped or flowery sole,” also Woo teén ye, 
“ Black guava leaf” (Birch); /a tat sha (Bridgem. Chrest. 204).. Rad. 
D. 70; A.60; P. 11-11; V.3 vel 4. (Specs Camb. Phil. Inst.) 
Two of the Rev. George Vachell’s specimens of this fish exist in the Cambridge Philoso- 
phical Institution, and small ones are very common in the China insect-boxes. It belongs to 
the subdivision of the genus which is characterized by the blending together of the three vers 
tical fins, and is very much like the Indian Solea xebra, but it is not so much elongated, and 
has a peculiar eye-like mark on the caudal fin, formed by several yellow spots, inclosed by a 
bright yellow parallelogram, of which one side is deficient. The body is crossed by about 
twenty-three vertical whitish bars, alternately broader and narrower, and bent backwards, 
where they run out on the fins. The intermediate spaces ate wood-brown on the body and 
blackish on the fins; short bars radiate forward from the eyes on the snout. A 
The eyes are on the tight side, and are small and nearly contiguous. The teeth, if any 
€xiSst, ate itivisible to the naked eye. ‘The left lips and gill-membranes are fringed, and the 
latter are united to the pectorals, the union of the left gill-membtane being more conspicuous. 
The scales on both sides of the fish are strongly ciliated and run up on the fin-rays. The 
lateral line is straight. Length of the figure 8¢ inches. The specimens are smaller. 
Th form this species is intermediate between the Jerree potoo, B, Russell, 81, and Jerree potoo, 
C, 825 and in the germinate distribution of its vertical stripes it agrees with neither. 
Hab. Coasts of China. Canton. Sea of Borneo. © , 
SoLEA ovatis, Richardson. Zeon. Reeves; 179 ; Hardw. Malac. 1779. Chinese 
name, Teaow pan yu (Birch). 
This greatly resembles Pleuronectes pan, Buch. Hamilton, pl. 24. f.42; but the hinder end 
is less acute, the form being a perfect oval, equally blunt both ways. The mouth also is cleft 
beyond the eyes, which appear to be more approximated, and the dark liver-brown spots are 
more numerous. The ground colour is reddish-brown. 
Hab. Coasts of China. 
SonEzA FOLIACEA; Richardson. Jcon. Reeves, G. 5; Hardw. Malac. 271. 
Chinese name, Ween ye ize, “Guava-leafed sole” (Birch) ; Neem yeep tze 
ok Nim ip tsai (Bridgem. Chrest. 203; Icon. Reeves, h. 91; 
ardw. Malac. 269). 
This differs little from the preceding, but the mouth is not so much cleft, the eyes smaller 
and further apart, like those of Pleuronectes pan; and the spots are composed of a congeries of 
smaller ones, The ground colour of drawing #: 5 is pale reddish-brown, but in the smaller 
one, ft. 91, it is olive-greens 
Hab. Coasts of Chinas Canton. 
Sorra ovata, Richardson. Rad. D. 65; A. 47; Ci 21; P.9, &e. 
(Spee. Camb. Phil. Inst.) 
In this species the rounded caudal is well distinguished from the other two vertical fins, 
* The term ¢a shi, applied to the sole; means “to beat the sand,” 
