FISHES COLLECTED IN JAPAN. 273 



38. HIPPOGLOSSUS OIIVACEUS, Schlegel, Faun. Jap., &c, 184, pi. 94. 



Notes. — From Yedo Bay, life size 8J inches. 



The Japanese name Maharei, in the Faun. Jap., by which it is known at Nagasaki, is also 

 given to it at Osaka. Karei is the local name given to the Platessoidae. 



39. SYNAPTURA OMMATURA, Rich. 



Solea ommatura, Kichardson, Kep. Brit. Assoc, 1845, p. 279. 

 Solea Zebrina, T. and S., Faun. Jap. Pisces, 185, pi. 95, f. 1. 



Notes. — From Simoda, (4f inches ;) cow's tongue — Simushinoshta. 



This drawing agrees with the above quoted figure, except that the caudal markings are 

 orange. Richardson is no doubt right in supposing this species to be distinct from the Solea 

 Zebra of Bloch. Bleecker doubts it, and classes it in his " Nalezingen op de Ichthylogie van 

 Japan," (1853,) p. 19, under the old specific name but in his genus Synaptura. In his paper 

 on Pleuronectidae, (1852,) p. 17, he observes that it seems only to be a local variety of the 

 Zebra. As he however had not seen the fish, while Richardson had compared specimens of 

 those allied species, it seems but proper to adopt the specific name of the one and the generic 

 name of the other of these distinguished Ichthyologists. 



It bears the same local name in the Faun. Jap. as that above given. Sim, is "to dye;" 

 ushinoshta, a "cow's tongue." 



40. PLAGUSIA JAPONICA, T & S.; Faun. Jap., Pisces, 187, pi. 95, f. 2 



Notes. — From Simoda, Ushinosta, 8^ inches. 



The above distinct specific name is given to it in the Fauna Japonica, until it can be shown 

 to belong to one of the described species of Plagusia, which are as yet not well characterized. 



41. SALMO PERRYI, N. S. 



PLATE IX, fig. 1. Reduced. 



Notes.— From Hakodadi, May and June, (33 inches,) D. 11, A. 11, P. 15, V. 8, C. 25. 



After a careful comparison of this figure with all the species of salmon from the Pacific de- 

 scribed by Pallas in his Zoographia, or by Valenciennes in the 21st volume of the Histoire des 

 Poissons, this fish would seem not to have been described before. It resembles the S. Purpu- 

 ratus of Pallas in some points, and may be an adult specimen of it ; but the Pacific salmon are 

 not well known, and no one species has been placed on a sure basis. Pallas, Richardson and 

 Valenciennes describe some twenty-five distinct species from the Pacific, which number will 

 probably be reduced considerably. The surveying expedition to the North Pacific, under Com- 

 mander John Rodgers, has brought home 550 species of fish, among which many Salmonidae 

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