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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-habu ; 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 Eemusat translated the text which describes it, as " common, reaching 

 a length of three feet, ivhite 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, torn. XI, part 1, page 215,) as given by Eemusat is akan, or ako, meaning 

 red fish. 



14. SEBASTES INERMIS, Cuv. 



Sebastes inermis, Cuv. and Val. IV, 346. 



Faun. Jap. 47, pi. 21, fig. 3, 4. 



PLATE V, fig. 2. Life size. 



Notes. — From Hakodadi. (5 f 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 9^- 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 LXTNULATA; Schlegel, loc. cit. 45, pi. 19; Bleecker Bijdrage &c, p. 3. 



Notes. — From Simoda, (4f inches,) Hawogoshi. 



Though in form this drawing recalls that of P. lunulata, 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. APISTXJS ALATUS, Cuv. 



A. alatus, Cuv. and Val. IV, 392. 

 " " Faun. Jap. 49, pi. 22 a. f. 2. 



Notes. — From Simoda, (5^ 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 A. alatus, but a comparison of specimens 

 can alone decide the question. 



