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name, Ma yew (Reeves), " Salmon-fish " of the foreign residents (Reeves) ; 



Ma yau (Bridgem. Chrest. 105). 



Hab. Indian ocean and rivers. Javan archipelago. Coasts of Australia and China. 



Figure 242 of Mr. Reeves's collection (Hardw. 89) may represent the young of the preceding. 

 It differs in having a more prominent belly and a shorter anal fin, though with as numerous 

 rays as the anal of the preceding. It also wants the fine black lines which run through the 

 centres of each row of scales above the lateral line, which are represented in the preceding 

 figure. The four free pectoral rays have the same relative length. 



Polynemus plebeius, Broussonnet, Ichth. ; C. et V iii. p. 380 ; Temm. et 

 Schl. F. J. p. 29. pi. 1 1. f. 1. P. lineatus, Lacep. v. pi. 13. f. 2. P. sele, 

 Buch. Hamilt. Ganges, p. 226 & 381. Trigla asiatica, Forst. Descr. 

 Anim. p. 236 ; Icon. Georgii Forst. in Bib. Banks, serv. 241. f. 1. 

 Hab. Mauritius, Indian ocean, sea of Japan and Polynesia. 



Polynemus xanthonemus, C. et V. vii. p. 517 ; Icon. Reeves, a. 15; Hardw. 

 Acanth. 90. Chinese name, Ma keaou lang (Reeves) ; Ma kau long 

 (Bridgem. Chrest. 114). 



The figure has a zigzag blackish line above the base of the pectoral, which is not noticed 

 in the ' Histoire des Poissons,' but in other respects it agrees with the description in that work. 

 Hab. Indian ocean and China sea. Canton. 



Fam. MulliDjE. 



Upeneus chrysopleuron, Temm. et Schl. F.J. p. 29. pi. 12. f . 1 ; Icon. 

 Reeves, 268 ; Hardw. Acanth. 98. Chinese name, Hung te neaou (Birch.); 

 Hong te new, " Red-coated mullet" (Reeves). 



This species is established in the ' Fauna Japonica ' solely from a drawing of M. Burger's, no 

 specimen having reached the authors. Mr. Reeves's drawing is more elaborately coloured, 

 and differs from that in the ' Fauna Japonica,' more in minute details than in general effect. 

 The edges of the scales have an olive tint, and their discs are occupied by flexuose, red veins. 

 The end of the snout, a circle round the eye, and the upper edge of the preorbitar are of a 

 brighter vermilion, as is also the gill-cover. A bluish streak marks the base of the pectoral. 



Hab. China and Japan. 



Upeneus subvittatus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. p. 30. Bad. D 7|-1|9; A. 1|6; 

 V. 1|5. (Camb. spec.) 



I am inclined to refer to this species a fish presented to the Cambridge Philosophical Society 

 by the Rev. George Vachell. Narrow villiform bands of fine short teeth arm the jaws, acute 

 chevron of the vomer and the palate-bones. The limbs of the preoperculum meet in a right 

 angle, the extreme corner being slightly rounded and crenated. The barbels reach to the edge 

 of the gill-opening. Reticulated and strongly ciliated scales cover the body, and the thirty-two 

 which compose the lateral line are each traversed by a tube having three short branchlets on 

 its upper side and one below. The line passes the anal before its curve is complete. Most 

 of the colours have perished, but two faint bars remain on the dorsal, one of the bars having 

 a black spot in it. Length of fish, 4 inch. Height, 0*9 inch. Length of head, 0-95 inch. 



Hab. Seas of Japan and China. 

 Upeneus biaculeatus, Gray (J. E.), Cat. of the Brit. Mus. ; Icon. Reeves, 



a. 22 ; Hardw. Acanth. 101. Chinese name, Fei te tseo (Birch) ; Fe te tso, 



" Flying crying tso" (Reeves); Fi tai tseuh (Bridgem. Chrest. 228). 



Bad. D.8J-9; A. 7 ; P. 14; V. 1|5. 



An example of this species, brought from Canton by John Reeves, Esq., exists in the British 

 Museum. It belongs to the tribe " without palatine teeth, and with the jaw-teeth widely set 

 in a single row;" but it has no black spot on the tail. The very short anterior spine of the 

 first dorsal is not represented in the figure. All the rays of the second dorsal and anal are 

 jointed. Opercular spines conspicuous, the upper one being short and blunt, the lower one 

 longer and acute. A dense bushy cluster is formed by the tubes on each scale of the lateral 

 line. The barbels reach to the inferior part of the gill-opening, and the jaw-teeth are short- 

 conical. Olive-green is the chief tint on the back and upper parts of the sides, deepest on 

 the edges of the scales, whose discs, as they approach the flanks, acquire more and more of a 

 pale reddish hue. These are so arranged as to form two indistinct longitudinal reddish stripes. 



