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Burger's Japanese specimens in the British Museum we reckoned D. ll|15, the last divided 

 so deeply that it might be taken for two, and A. 3|8. In the ' Fauna Japonica' the numbers 

 are stated to be D. 11|16 ; A. 3l8, &c, and we have given above the numbers we found in Chi- 

 nese specimens brought from Canton by John Reeves, Esq. and the Rev. George Vachell. 

 Hab. Seas of China and Japan. Canton. 



Serranus pcecilinotus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 6. 



Hab. Japanese seas. 



Serranus octocinctus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 7. 



Hab. Japanese seas. 



Serranus latifasciatus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 7. 



Hab. Japanese seas. 



Serranus myri aster, C. et V. ii. p. 365 ; Riippell, Atl. pi. 27. f. 1. Merou 

 mille etoiles, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de l'Astrol. pi. 3. f. 1 ; Voy. de la Coquille, 

 pi. 37. Bad. D. 9|16; A. 3|8; C. 15f; P. 17; V. 1|5. (Chin. Spec.) 



A specimen of this fishjwas brought from the Chinese seas by Sir Edward Belcher, which is 

 much better represented by Ruppell's figure than by those given in the other works we have 

 quoted. The figure in the ' Voy. of the Coquille' wants the blue edging of the fins, and has 

 more resemblance even in the colouring to the Serranus rogaa of Riippell than to myriaster. 

 We have seen examples from Australia which differ in no respect from the Chinese ones. 



Hab. Sandwich islands. Polynesia. New Guinea. Australia. China and the Red sea. 



Serranus cyanopodus, Icon. Reeves, 249 ; Hardw. Acanth. 69. Chinese 

 name, Tsing te (Birch) ; Ching te, " Blue foot " (Reeves). Bad. D. 1 1 120 ; 

 A. 3|7, &c. (exfigura.) 



This drawing has a general resemblance to S. myriaster, but with a more arched nape, a 

 higher spinous dorsal, a projecting point at the corner of the preoperculum, much smaller and 

 differently disposed dots. The general colour is flax-flower-blue, deepening to indigo on the 

 back, and having purplish tints on the face and breast. The spots are small, bluish- black, and 

 extend to all the fins, except the pectoral and anal. They become gradually less on the lower 

 parts of the sides and disappear on the breast and belly. The pectorals are yellowish-gray, 

 with blue bases ; but the rest of the fins are blue like the body, the extremity of the caudal 

 being also tinged with blue and the anal with purple. The fins do not show the marginal 

 streak so evident in myriaster. The caudal is truncated. 



Hab. China seas. Canton. 



Serranus formosus, Shaw (Scicena), Zool. Misc. pi. 1007 ; C. et V. ii. 



p. 311. Bahtee bontoo, Russell, pi. 129; Icon. Reeves, a. 46 ; Hardw. 



Acanth. 31. Chinese name, Hih kwei tsze, " Black-spirit thorn" (Birch) ; 



Hih kwei tze, " Black spirit" (Reeves). Bad. D. 9|17 ; A. 3|8, &c. 



Minute scales cover the entire surface of the maxillary, except the folds of the lips ; and the 

 fins are densely scaly. The general tint of the body, dorsal and base of the anal is reddish- 

 orange, the gill-cover being tinged with siskin-green. The body is traversed by numerous 

 china-blue lines, which are oblique on the back, but horizontal on the sides. They run out 

 upon the dorsal and anal, changing to sap-green. Six of the blue lines cross the face, radiating 

 from round the orbit, and there are some blue spots before the eye and on the lips. The rays 

 of the ventrals are partly blue, partly green ; the outer half of the anal is green, and it has a 

 border of blue and black. The pectorals and anal are dark prussian-blue, their rays being 

 paler. Russell's plate omits the lines on the spinous dorsal, gives a wrong direction to those 

 on the anal, and represents all the lines as too broad. Mr. Reeves's drawing is an excellent 

 representation of a specimen in the Chinese collection at Hyde Park. 



Hab. Indian ocean. Sea of China. Canton. 



Serranus marginalis, Bloch, 328 (Epinephelus) ; C. et V. ii. p. 301. 

 Holocentre rosmare, Lacep. iv. pi. 7. f. 2. o. tsirimenara, Temm. et Schl. 

 F. J. p. 8 ; Icon. Reeves, 246 ; Hardw. Acanth. 27- Bad. D. 1 1 115 vel 16 ; 

 A. 3|8, &c. (Spec. Brit. Mus.) 



The tsirimenara of the • Fauna Japonica ' is distinguished by the authors from marginalis 



