'262 EXPEDITION TO JAPAN. 



17. APISTUS RUBRIPIN1HS, Schlegel. 

 A. rubripinnis, Faun. Jap. 49, pi. 22, fig. 2. 



PLATE VI, fig. 5. Life size. 



Notes. — From Simocla. (2J and 3£ inclies.) 



Two drawings were taken of this species, the published one appearing to he either young or 

 taken at the breeding season, from the brilliancy of its coloring. The markings are more dis- 

 tinct than in the Faun. Jap., and the abdomen of a brick red. The caudal has a broad band of 

 white at its base ; rest of fin red, with narrow bars of dark dusky. The eye is smaller than in 

 Schlegel's figure. 



The fin rays, which are noted on the figure, are D. 21, A. 8, P. 10, V. 5, C. 11, being nearly 

 correct. 



In the Faun. Jap. the fin rays aTe nearly the same, but require to be read A. 3. 4, Y. 1. 4. 



One of the drawings is marked Iso-owoo, as the native name. This means simply shore fish. 



Diengkitsch calls it Karakame. Kara is Corea. 



18. PELOR JAPONICUM. Cuv. 



P. japonicum, Cuv. and Val. 4, 437, pi. 93. 

 " " Faun. Jap. 44, pi. 18, fig. 2. 



PLATE V, fig. 1. Life size. 



Notes.— From Simoda. (4£ inches,) D. 18. 6, A. (2) 11, P. 10. 2, &c. 



This is no doubt a young specimen of this fish. It is of a uniform dark dusky olive, with 

 minute marblings of paler olive on sides and bases of fins. No large white blotches as in the 

 figure of the Faun. Jap. Fin rays with two more spines in dorsal, a common thing in young fish. 



The native name Onio-goze, means devil like. 



19. MONOCENTRIS JAPONICUS, Houttuyn. 



Gasterosteus japonicus, Houttuyn, Mem. Harlem. XX, pt. 2, 329. 

 Sciaena japonica, Thunberg, Mem. Ac. Stockholm XI, 102, pi. 3. 

 Monocentris carinata vel cataphracta, Bl. Schn. 100, pi. 24. 

 Lepisacanthus japonicus, Lacep. Ill, 321. 

 Monocentris , Tilesius. Mem. Ac. Munich III. 71, 1811-12, w. fig. 



" japonicus, Cuv. and Val. 4, 461, pi. 97. 



" " Schlegel Faun. Jap. Pisces, 50, pi. 22, f. 1. 



" cataphracta, Bleecker, Bijdrage, p. 5. 



PLATE VI, fig. 6. Life size. 



Notes. — From Simoda. (2|- inches.) 



Thunberg first brought home a specimen of this curious fish, whose proper place in the systems 

 has not yet been determined by the scale of affinities. His specimen served for his own, and for 



