240 report — 1845. 



The Rev. George Vachell has deposited a Canton specimen in the museum of the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society. 



Hab. Seas of China and Japan. 



Gerres punctatus, C. et V. vi. p. 480. Woodan> Russell, 68 ? Icon. 

 Reeves, 260 ; Hardw. Acanth. 149. Chinese name, Hae tsih (Birch, 

 Reeves) ; " Sea tsih" (Reeves). 



Mr. Reeves's figure, probably from an oversight of the artist, shows four anal spines. 

 Hab. Indian ocean and China seas. 



Gerres ? Icon. Reeves, /3. 39 ; Hardw. Acanth. 



This drawing evidently represents another species of Gerres, having less elongation of the 

 anterior dorsal spines, and wanting the vertical faint purple bands ; but the drawing is less 

 precise in its details than in most others of this admirable collection, and in the absence of 

 specimens we cannot ascertain whether it be a described species or not. Its Chinese appel- 

 lation is the same with that of the punctatus. 



Hab. China seas. 



Ditrema, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 77. pi. 40. f. 2. " Bad. B. 6 ; D. 

 10|22 ; A. 3|27 ; P. 19; C. 16 ; V. l|5." (Fauna Jap.) 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



Ch^topterus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 7. pi. 37. f. 2. " Bad. B. 4 ; 



D. 10|10 ; A. S|8 ; C. 18 ; P. 17 ; V. 1|5." (Fauna Jap.) 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



Fam. Sparid^. 

 Chrysophrys aries, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 67. pi. 31. 



A Chinese specimen exists in the collection at Hyde Park. Incisors between chisel-shaped 

 and conical. 



Hab. Japanese and Chinese seas. 



Chrysophrys tumifrons, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 70. pi. 34. 



A specimen of Burger's in the British Museum has the hind head less high, and the pre- 

 orbitar one-third lower than the figure in the • Fauna Japonica.' 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



Chrysophrys major, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 71. pi. 35. 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



Chrysophrys berda, Forskal (Sparus), p. 32; C. et V. vi.p. 113 ; Ruppell, 

 Neue Wirlb. p. 1 20. taf. 27. f. 4. Sparus hasta, Bl. Schn. p. 275 ; Icon. 

 Reeves, 223 ; Hardw. Acanth. 75. Bad. D. 1 1 11 1 ; A. 3|8, &c. (Spec. Chin, 

 coll.) 



Specimens of this fish exist in the Chinese collection at Hyde Park and in the British Mu- 

 seum, the latter brought from Canton by John Reeves, Esq. In Mr. Reeves's drawing the 

 large pectoral is ochraceous, the rest of the fish gray, with a yellowish gloss on the belly, and 

 the base of each scale blackish-gray. The lips are thick, and the fish has a sciaenoid aspect. 

 It is compared by Mr. Reeves with Diagramma cinctum. 



Hab. Red sea, Indian ocean, and China. 



Chrysophrys longispinis, C. et V. p. 116; Temm. et Schl. F.J. Sieb. 

 p. 68. pi. 32. 



One of Burger's specimens in the British Museum has the preoperculum streaked on the 

 disc and pectinately toothed on its vertical edge, the teeth bluntish, and concealed by mem- 

 brane in the recent fish. A narrow, flat, blunt, bony point terminates the operculum behind 

 the tip of the gill-flap. First anal spine very short, third one slender, second stouter and 

 longer. 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



