258 EXPEDITION TO JAPAN. 



4. SERRANUS AWOARA, Schleg. 



Serranus awoara, Faun. Jap., loc. cit. 9, pi. 3, fig. 2. 



Notes. — From Lew Chew. (Life size, 13^ inches ; D. 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 urodblus, Cuv. & Val. II. 306, and VI. 513. 



PLATE VI, fig. 1. Reduced. 



Notes. — From 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 Forskal, p. 40,) as a variety of that fish, which is a Diacope, 

 according to M, Valenciennes, and is from the Bed sea. 



But one specimen was observed by the expedition. 



6. SERRANUS MARGINALIS, Block 



Epinephelus marginalis, Bloch, pi. 328, 1. East Indies. 

 Holocentrus rosmarus, Lacep. IV, 345, pi. 1, f. 2. 

 Holocentrus margin atus, Lacep. IV, 342. 

 Serranus marginalis, Cuv. & Val. II, 301. 



PLATE III, fig. 2. Natural size. 



Notes.' — 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 bead. Spinous dorsal, with the membrane adjoining the 



