216 report— 1845. 



An. 1793 ; C. et V. iv. p. 318 ; Temm. et Schl. F. J. p. 42. pi. 17. f. 2, 3. 



" Japanese name, Oiarakabu," 



The British Museum possesses one of Burger's Japanese specimens. 



Hab. Indian ocean and sea of Japan. 

 Scorpjena neglecta, Temm. et Schl. F. J. p. 43. pi. 17. f. 4. Bad. 



D. 12 9; A. 3|5 ; C. 11 ; P. 9 et 11 ; V. 1)5. (Fauna Jap.) 



D. 1210; 3|5; 13J-; P. 8 et 8;V. 1[5. (Dried spec.) 



To this species I am inclined to refer five or six small specimens which I picked out of the 

 China insect-boxes, chiefly because they have a black spot between the seventh and ninth dor- 

 sal rays. The spines, intra-orbitar ridges, &c, correspond with the descriptions and figure in 

 the ' Fauna Japonica ;' but the length of the lower preorbitar, which almost equals that of an 

 Apistes, is not noticed in that work. The specimens are much damaged, though the barbel be- 

 tween the posterior superciliary spines is still visible. The cheek is not scaly, and in this 

 the species differs from the Scorpana militaris (Ichth. Ereb. and Terr.) of Van Diemen's Land, 

 which in most other respects it closely resembles. Edge of the palate-bones and chevron of the 

 vomer set with teeth. Scales finely ciliated. 



Hab. Coasts of China and Japan. 



Scorp;ena leonina, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 66; Hardw. Acanth. 116. 

 Chinese name, Shih sze tsze, " Stone-lion," such as are placed before 

 houses (Birch); "Stone-lion's whelp" (Reeves); Shih tz tsz (Bridgem. 

 Chrest. 116). 



This species much resembles a Platycephalus, in the flatness of its head and the manner in 

 which the rows of its strong spines are tiled upon each other. A pretty tall-feathered barbel 

 rises from the posterior third of the orbit, and there are many others on the lower jaw and 

 under corner of the maxillary and preoperculum, also numerous small ones on the flanks. The 

 ground tint of the sides, which is reddish- brown, is clouded by largish masses of dark umber, 

 the belly being paler and the summit of the back dark. The vertical fins are irregularly and 

 obliquely barred with umber, and the pectorals are marked also by three cross bars formed by 

 umbrine spots on the rays. Iris and tip of the caudal reddish. These particulars are noted 

 solely from Mr. Reeves's figure. A specimen of the fish exists in the Chinese collection at Hyde 

 Park, but I have not as yet examined it. 



Hab. Canton. 



Centridermichthys uncinatus, Temm. et Schl. {Cottus), F.J. p. 38 ; 



Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulph. p. 74. pi. 54. f. 6-10 (C. ansatus). 



Bad. B. 6 ; D. 8|-19 ; A. 17; C. 9|f ; P. 17 ; V. 1|4. 



It is very probably a fish of this genus, which was observed by Steller at Cape Cronok and 

 the mouth of the Itschia, and named by him Cottus villosus (Pall. Zoogr. Ross. p. 129). He 

 states that it has three barbels on the lower jaw, and compares it to a Platycephalus, which 

 Centridermichthys in fact considerably resembles. Tilesius, on the other hand, seems to have 

 mistaken for Cottus villosus the Aploactes aspera noticed above, which is by no means like a 

 Platycephalus. 



Several specimens of Centridermichthys uncinatus, procured at Woosungin the estuary of the 

 Yang tsee kiang kew by Sir Everard Home, were presented by him to the College of Surgeons. 

 Another species inhabits the American coasts on the opposite side of the Pacific, viz. C. asper 

 (Richardson, Fauna Boreal. Amer. pi. 95. f. 1). 



Hab. China seas. 



Hemilepidotus tilesii, C. et V. iv. p. 276. t. 85. Cottus hemilepidotus, 

 Tilesius, Mem. de Petersb. iii. p. 262. pi. 11. Cottus trachurus, Pallas, 

 Zoogr. Ross. p. 138. 



Hab. Japan, Sagalien, sea of Ochotsk, Kurile islands and north-western shores of America. 



Platycephalus insidiator, Bloch, Schn. p. 59. P. spatula, id. p. 59. 



Batrachus indicus, id. p. 43. Callionymus indicus, Lin. Cotte made- 



casse, Lacep. iii. p. 248. pi. 11. f. 1, 2. PI. insidiator, C. et V. iv. p. 227 ; 



Temm. et Schl. F. J. p. 39. pi. 15. f. 1 ; Icon. Bl. pi. 424 ; Russell (Irrwa), 



pi. 46. 



The Rev. George Vachell brought a specimen from Canton, which is now in the museum of 

 the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 



Hab. Red sea, Indian ocean, Moluccas, and seas of China and Japan. 



