6 EXPEDITION TO JAPAN. 
4, SERRANUS AWOARA, Schleg. 
SERRANUS AWOARA, Faun. Jap., loc. cit. 9, pl. 3, fig. 2. 
Norrs.—From Lew Chew. (Life size, 133 inches ; 9,11, 15.) 
Pale dusky purple, darker on back, head, and spinous dorsal ; soft dorsals paler ; caudal, anal, 
and pectorals pale yellowish brown ; ventrals bluish ; small brownish red spots (more sparsely 
distributed than in the figure quoted) on whole of head and body; none on fins. The figure 
in the Faun. Jap. has a decided purple tinge on the sides, though in the text it is said to be 
yellowish brown. 
Awo means purplish blue ; ara, a rock fish. 
5. SERRANUS URODELUS, Forster. 
SERRANUS URODELUS, Cuv. & Val. II. 306, and VI. 513. 
PLATE VI, fig. 1. Reduced. 
Nores.—F rom Lew Chew. 
Brilliant scarlet lake, or bright blood red over whole of body and fins; rather lighter on 
abdomen and cheeks. Pectorals tipped with orange yellow. Lateral line of a darker red, pro- 
longed forwards and rising over the eye. On the caudal two clear white bars, converging and 
narrowing from the middle of the outer rays towards the middle of the posterior margin, with- 
out meeting. Irides paler red. 
This well marked species was first noticed by J. R. Forster, at Otaheite. He named it Perca 
urodela, and his figure was found by M. Valenciennes among the drawings in the Banksian col- 
lection, with the above quoted name. In Bloch Schneider it is placed (page 333) under 
Bodianus miniatus, (Perca miniata of Forskil, p. 40,) as a variety of that fish, which is a Diacope, 
according to M. Valenciennes, and is from the Red sea. 
But one specimen was observed by the expedition. 
6. SERRANUS MARGINALIS, Bloch. 
EPINEPHELUS MARGINALIS, Bloch, pl. 328, 1. Hast Indies. 
Hotocentrus rosMARuS, Lacep. IV, 345, pl. 7, f. 2. 
HoLocentRus MARGINATUS, Lacep. IV, 342. 
SERRANUS MARGINALIS, Cuyv. & Val. II, 301. 
PLATE III, fig. 2. Natural size, 
Norrs.—From Simoda, (8% inches.) 
The drawing is colored bright reddish brown over the whole of body and fins; darker on 
back, and blackish brown on back of head, Spinous dorsal, with the membrane adjoining the 
