244 report — 1845. 



Park. The post-frontal is ridged in a radiated way and slightly cancellated, and no scales 

 could be discovered through the varnish on the cheeks or temples. The teeth are strongly 

 tricuspid, the larger middle lobe rounded and crenated, the lateral ones acute. In the draw- 

 ing an accessory or binate anal spine is shown, and the same thing is noticed by Park in his 

 description of Amph. margaritiferus. The body is clouded with umber-brown and silvery 

 blotches, occupying nearly equal space, but a dark tint prevailing on the back. On the flanks 

 and tail there are besides many small silvery dots. The throat is umber-brown, and the 

 sides of the head are umber-brown and olive-green, shading into each other. The caudal, 

 soft dorsal, posterior half of the spinous part and soft anal are chestnut-brown. A cream- 

 yellow stripe runs along the base of the anal. The ventrals, fore-part of the dorsal, and 

 spinous portion of the anal are bluish-gray, and the pectorals straw- yellow with an umber- 

 brown blotch on the base. Length 10 inches. 

 Hab. Seas of China and Japan. Canton. 



Amphacanthus aurantiacus, Temm. et Schleg. F. J. Sieb. p. 128. pi. 68. 

 f. 2. 



Hab. Sea of Japan ; rare. 

 Acanthurus orbicularis, Quoy et Gaim. ; C. et V. x. p. 237. 



The scales or cuticular ridges on the edge of the thorax, from the gill-openings to the ven- 

 trals, are serrated by fine, acute teeth pointing backwards. A specimen exists in Haslar 

 Museum. 



Hab. Chinese Sea (Sir Edward Belcher). Guam (Hist, des Pois.). 



Naseus fronticornis, " Commerson ;" C. et V. x. p. 259 ; Temm. et Schl. 



F. J. Sieb. p. 129. pi. 69. Harpurus monoceros, J. R. Forst. Descr. An. ed. 



Licht. p. 219 ; Icon. G. Forster, Bib. Banks, 194. Monocerus biaculeatus, 



Bl. Schn. p. 180. Naseus longicornis, Guer. ; Icon. Reg. An. pi. 35. f. 31. 



" Name at Waigiou, Een-raw ; at Otaheiti, E-ooma" Forster. 



Hab. Chinese and Japanese seas. Sandwich islands (Webber). Polynesia. Guam. 



In Sir Edward Belcher's collection there are several species of Acanthuridce, among which is 

 an adult Naseus brevirostris, and also specimens of Naseus lituratus, some of which may have 

 been collected in China ; but as this officer visited New Guinea, which has been recorded pre- 

 viously as the native place of these fish, and he put fish from various localities into the same 

 jars, we are unable to affirm that any of these specimens are Chinese. 



£rionurus scalprum, C et V. x. p. 298 ; Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. 

 p. 129. pi. 70; Icon. Reeves, 183; Hardw. Acanth. Chinese name, 

 Hih tseang keun, " Black general" (Birch) ; Halt tseang keun tsang, 

 " Black tseang keun (a military officer)" Reeves. (Spec. Br. Mus.) 

 General colour blackish-purple, paler towards the belly, the fins blacker, and a narrow 



reddish streak from the angle of the mouth to the preoperculum. 

 Hab. Chinese and Japanese seas. 



Fam. Ch^etodontid^e. 



Pimelepterus indicus, Kuhl et Van Hasselt, in C. et V. vii. p. 270 > 

 Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 86. " Bad. D. 11|12 ; A. 3|11," &c. (F. J.) 

 Hab. Indian ocean. Sea of Japan. 



Pempheris moluca, C. et V. vii. p. 306 ; Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 85. 

 pi. 44. f. 3. 



Hab. The seas of Japan and the Moluccas. 



Hypsinotus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 84. pi. 42. f. 2. 



I possess a drawing of a fish caught in the Bight of Benin by Dr. Thompson of the Royal 

 Navy, which has the exact profile, the position of the ventrals and general appearance of M. 

 Burger's figure published in the ' Fauna Japonica,' except that the ventrals have the red 

 colour of the rest of the fish. 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



Drepane punctata, Lin. (Cfurtodon), C. et V. vii. p. 132. Chcetodon 



