10 | EXPEDITION TO JAPAN. 
17, APISTUS RUBRIPINNIS, Schlegel. 
A. RUBRIPINNIS, Faun. Jap. 49, pl. 22, fig. 2. 
PLATE VI, fig. 5. Life size. 
Nores.—From Simoda. (24 and 31 inches.) 
Two drawings were taken of this species, the published one appearing to be either young or 
taken at the breeding season, from the brilliancy of its coloring. The markings are more dis- 
tinct than in the Faun. Jap., and the abdomen of a brick red. The caudal hasa broad band of 
white at its base; rest of fin red, with narrow bars of dark dusky. The eye is smaller than in 
Schlegel’s figure. 
The fin rays, which are noted on the figure, are D. 21, A. 8, P. 10, V. 5, C. 11, being nearly 
correct. 
In the Faun. Jap. the fin rays are nearly the same, but require to be read A. 3. 4, V. 1. 4. 
One of the drawings is marked /so-owoo, as the native name. This means simply shore fish. 
Diengkitsch calls it Karakame. Kara is Corea. 
18, PELOR JAPONICUM. Cuv. 
P. saponicum, Cuv. and Val. 4, 437, pl. 93. 
ee ee Faun. Jap. 44, pl. 18, fig. 2. 
PLATE V, fig. 1. Life size. 
Notrs.— From Simoda. (43 inches,) D, 18. 6, A. (2) 11, P. 10. 2, &e. 
This is no doubt a young specimen of this fish. It is of a uniform dark dusky olive, with * 
minute marblings of paler olive on sides and bases of fins. No large white blotches as in the 
figure of the Faun. Jap. Fin rays with two more spines in dorsal, acommon thing in young fish. 
The native name Onio-goze, means devil like. 
* 
19. MONOCENTRIS JAPONICUS, Houttuyn. 
GASTEROSTEUS JAPONICUS, Houttuyn, Mem. Harlem. XX, pt. 2, 329. 
Scramna Japonica, Thunberg, Mem. Ac. Stockholm XI, 102, pl. 3. 
MoNOcENTRIS CARINATA VEL CATAPHRACTA, Bl. Schn. 100, pl. 24. 
LepiIsacaNTuus JAponticus, Lacep. III, 321. 
MonocentTRIS , Tilesius. Mem. Ac. Miinich III. 71, 1811-12, w. fig. 
kc JAPoNIcuS, Cuv. and Val. 4, 461, pl. 97. 
a sé Schlegel Faun. Jap. Pisces, 50, pl. 22, f. 1. 
GL CATAPHRACTA, Bleecker, Bijdrage, p. 5. 
PLATE VI, fig. 6. Life size. 
Notrs.—From Simoda. (2} inches.) 
Thunberg first brought home a specimen of this curious fish, whose proper place in the systems 
has not yet been determined by the scale of affinities. His specimen served for his own, and for 
