FISHES COLLECTED IN JAPAN. 257 



1. LABRAX JAPONICUS, Cuvier. 



Labrax japootcus, Cuv. and Yal. II, 85. 



" " Bleecker, Nalezingen &c. 



Percalabrax japonicus, Faun. Jap. Pisces., Temm. & Schlegel, 2. pi. 2, fig. 1. 



Notes on drawing. — From Simoda. 20| inches. 



More elongated than in the above quoted figure ; the caudal more deeply forked. The colors 

 paler, lateral line dark. First dorsal only with clouded spots ; the second with a single series 

 of longer spots between the rays. 



This fish is much sought after as food by the Japanese. Langsdorff and Schlegel give its 

 name as Suzuki, but Diengkitsch writes it Suuzuki. Dr. Cantor, in the Annals and Magazine 

 of Nat. Hist., vol. 9, p. 277, notices this fish as found at Chusan and the river Peiho. 



2. SERRANUS TSIREMENARA, Schlegel. 



Serranus xsirimenara, Faun. Jap. loc. cit. 7. pi. 4 a. fig. 3. 



PLATE HI, fig. 1. Life size ? 



Notes.— From Port Lloyd, Bonin islands.— 7£ inches ; D. 10 (?) A. (?) 8; 0. 15 ; P. 15. 



The colors are much brighter than in the figure of the Fauna Japonica, which was taken 

 from a preserved specimen. The whole of the head and body bright orange red, becoming more 

 yellowish below. The white spots, seven in number, of oblong form, four above and three 

 below the lateral line, the sis anterior ones being under the spinous dorsal. Head more dusky. 

 A stripe of vermilion red from above tip of maxillaries to near the base of pectorals, shaded off 

 on the edges. Under jaw edged with vermilion red; irides orange red. Margin of orbits 

 blue. Spinous dorsal pale red, the membrane behind the points of the spines darker. Dark 

 spots on back between bases of spines. Soft dorsal like the back, yellowish towards margin. 

 The other fins bright yellow, ventrals and anals tipped with red. 



3. SERRANUS AEAARA, Schleg. 



Serranus Akaara, Faun, Jap. loc. cit. 9, pi. 3, fig. 1. 



Notes. — Hong Kong. (7| inches ; reduced?) 



The colors lighter than in the Faun. Jap., and nearly white below. Spots brownisn yellow ; 

 cheeks pale yellow ; dorsal dull yellow. 



Aka, means scarlet ; ara, a rock fish. Diengkitsch informs me that at Osaka it is called 

 Eso-owoo, meaning shore fish ; probably a generic name. 

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