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Hoplegnathus fasciatus, Temm. et Schl. (Scarodon), F. J. Sieb. p. 89. 

 pi. 46. f. 1 and 2. Genus Hoplegnathus, Zool. Trans, vol. iii. p. 114; 

 " Poisson perroquet noir, Krusenst. Voy. Atl. pi. 52. f. 2." " Had. B. 7 ; 

 D. 12|16 ; A. 3|13 ; C. 17 ; P. 18 ; V. 1|5." (Fauna Jap.) 



I read an account of the genus Hoplegnathus before the Zoological Society, on the 9th 6f 

 March, 1841, which was noticed shortly afterwards in the Zoological Proceedings, and sub- 

 sequently published at length, with a figure, in the Zoological Transactions. A fasciculus 

 of the ' Fauna Japonica,' which was published towards the end of the year 1844, gives an 

 account of the same genus under the name of Scarodon, and mentions the earliest represen- 

 tation of a species in the Atlas of ' Krusenstern's Voyage.' The specimen described in the 

 Zoological Transactions was supposed to be Australian, and differs from all the Chinese spe- 

 cies in its more oblong form. I counted only five branchiostegous rays in the only example 

 (a dried skin) which I had an opportunity of examining. The rays were as follows : — Br. 5 ? 

 D. 12|12; A. 3|12; C. 15£; P. 18; V. 1(5- The colour was gone. 



Hob. Sea of Japan. 



Hoplegnathus punctatus, Temm. et Schl. (Scarodon), F.J. Sieb. p. 91 ; 

 Icon. Reeves, a. 12 ; Hardvv. Acarith. 308. Chinese name, Hih shih la, 

 " Black stone la " (Birch) ; Hih shih tsoo (Reeves). 



Specimens of this fish exist in the Chinese collection at Hyde Park. I have also seen very 

 cursorily, in the museum at Fort Pitt, a spotted Hoplegnathus from Norfolk Island, which 

 seemed to be more oblong and of a lighter colour than this species. 



Hab. Seas of Japan and China. 



Hoplegnathus maculosus, Icon. Reeves, 270 ; Hardw. 173. (Spec. 



Chinese collection at Hyde Park.) 



Not having examined the specimens in the Chinese collection and compared them with one 

 another, this is propounded only provisionally as a separate species. In Mr. Reeves's draw- 

 ings the spots are of two sizes, many smaller ones being scattered among others of the same 

 dimensions with those of punctatus. More rays are shown in the soft dorsal and anal than in 

 the figure of that species. The profile is less gibbous at the eyes, and the ventrals are smaller ; 

 but on the whole the two drawings are very much alike and may be both representations of 

 one species. 



Hab. Sea of China. Canton. 



Fam. Fistularid^. 



Aulostom A chinensis, Bloch, 338 (Fistularia). Fistularia sinensis, La- 

 cepede, v. p. 357. 



Sir Edward Belcher has deposited a Chinese specimen of this fish in the museum at Haslar. 

 Hab. China seas. Polynesia. 



Fistularia immaculata, Commerson. Cuv. Regn. An. ii. p. 167. Fistu- 

 laria tabaccaria, White's Voy. to Botany Bay, p. 2962. f. 2. Icon. Reeves, 

 185 ; Hardw. 315. Chinese name, Ma peen yu, " Horse- whip fish" 

 (Reeves) ; Ma pin (Bridgem. Chrest. 52). 



Three Chinese specimens of this fish exist in the British Museum. 



Hab. China seas. Malay archipelago. Coasts of Australia. 



Amphisile scutata, Lin. (Centriscus). Bl. 123. f. 2. " Klein Mant. Ichth." 

 Riippell Neue Wirlb. 142. 



Chinese specimens exist in the British Museum, Sir Edward Belcher's collection and in 

 the Canton insect-boxes. 



Hab. Chinese sea, Malay archipelago, Indian ocean and Red sea. 



Tribus Periodopharyngei. 

 b-fj^sx Fam. Mugilid^:. 



Mugil japonicus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 134. pi. 72. f. 1. M. ce- 



