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tips of the spines, dusky brown. All the fins reddish brown, like body ; pectoral, ventrals, and 

 anals, rather dusky. Breast in front of pectorals, dusky blue. Irides, yellow and red. 



Strong canine teeth in both jaws ; head large, profile arching uniformly, lower jaw longest. 

 Body highest in front of dorsal. Spines eleven in number, first shortest, the others as well 

 as soft dorsal, of nearly equal height. Caudal rounded. 



In the Hist, des Poissons, as above quoted, M. Valenciennes says : " Bloch does not give the 

 habitat of this fish, and gives it fancy colors. M. Lacepedes' Hoi. rosmarus was founded on a 

 drawing by Commerson, made at the Isle de France, while bis Hoi. marginatus is from Bloch's 

 Ep. Marginalis. M. Dussumier procured a specimen at Ceylon, and found it also at the Sey- 

 chelles." 



If the fish observed by these naturalists are all of one species, it has a wide range. 



7. THERAPON OXYRHYNCHUS, Sehlegel, loc. cit. 16, pi. 6, f. 3. 



Notes. — From Simoda. D. 12. 10 ; A. 11. (9| inches.) 



The name Isagi is added to the drawing, by a native of Simoda. In the Faun. Jap. it is 

 called Sima isisaki. 



8. HOLOCENTRUM SPINOSISSIMUM, Sehlegel, loc. cit. 22, pi. 8, A. 



Notes.— From Lew Chew. D. 10, 14, A. 12, (7| inches.) 



9. URANOSCOPUS ASPER, Sehlegel, loc. cit. 26, pi. 9, f. 1. 



Notes.— From Simoda. D. 4. 13; A. 14. (1 Of inches.) 



The formula for the fin rays should read D. 5. 13, &c. The name given to it in the Faun. 

 Jap. is Ten-mon-dai-o-goze, which, it is interesting to remark, has the same signification as the 

 scientific European name, derived no doubt from the fact of the eyes being on the back of the 

 head, looking directly upwards. Ten-mon-dai means an astronomer, goze, resembling. 



The name given to it by Diengkitsch is Mu-shi-ma-okodi, meaning horns behind the head. 



10. FRIGLA BURGERI, Sehlegel, loc. cit. 35, pi. 14, f. 1, 2. 



PLATE V, fig. 3. § size. 



Notes. — From Simoda. D. 8. 18 ; A. 18, &c. (Life size, 10 inches.) 



The drawing is more dusky on the head than in the figure of the Faun. Jap. Upper parts 

 of spinous dorsal dark ; upper parts of caudal dark dusky. 



