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dorsal and anal red, margined with orange. Caudal red at base, most of it being orange. 
Pectorals orange red, darker at base, most of the upper rays annulated with three series of brown 
spots. Ventrals, dull orange. 
This figure resembles the one of the marmoratus given by Schlegel, in form. 
The name on the first figure Kasagu, seems to signify ulcerated gills; the second one, 
Cosango, that it exceeds red coral, (in color.) 
In the Fauna Japonica it is called ara-kabu ; ara meaning, as before stated, rock fish. 
+ Cuvier, who found a good figure of it in a Japanese work, and also in the Japanese Encyclo- 
pedia, says that M. Abel Remusat translated the text which describes it, as ‘‘ common, reaching 
a length of three feet, white savory flesh, sought for in the winter season ;’’ in all which it resem- 
bles other species of Sebastes. Its name in this Encyclopedia, (see Notices et Extraits des 
Manuscrits, &c., tom. XI, part 1, page 215,) as given by Remusat is akan, or ako, meaning 
red fish. 
14, SEBASTES INERMIS, Cuv. 
SEBASTES INERMIS, Cuv. and Val. IV, 346. 
ut Me Faun. Jap. 47, pl. 21, fig. 3, 4. 
_ PLATE V, fig. 2. Life size. 
Notrs.—From Hakodadi. (53 inches.) 
A young specimen, not so dark as the figure in the Faun. Jap., the blotches smaller and 
more distinct. 
A figure was also taken of a specimen 94 inches long, from the same locality, and to which 
the same remark applies. The distinct separation of the two dorsals is a peculiar character of 
this species, though exaggerated in the figure, which also erroneously shows four spines in the 
anal. 
, 15. PTEROIS LUNULATA® Schlegel, loc. cit. 45, pl. 19; Bleecker Bijdrage &c., p. 3. 
Nores.—From Simoda, (43 inches,) Hawogoshi. 
Though in form this drawing recalls that of P. lwnulata, the colors are different. The body 
is of a pale brownish blue with the bars etc., as in the above species, but more distinctly 
defined. The two appendages over the eye are longer and equal the diameter of the orbit. It 
is, perhaps, only a young specimen, 
16. APISTUS ALATUS, Cuv. 
A. ALATUS, Cuv. and Val. IV, 392. 
us ‘¢ Faun. Jap. 49, pl. 22 a. f. 2. 
Nores.—From Simoda, (53 inches.) ; 
In the drawing the colors are dark bluish slate on back, fading to dirty yellow on the sides. 
Markings as in the figure of the Faun. Jap. 
This specimen seems to be different from the true 4. alatus, but a comparison of specimens 
can alone decide the question. 
