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The Haslar Museum possesses specimens of this fish, presented to it byCapt. Dawkins, B.N., 

 who brought them from China. In one individual the ventrals are wholly orange-coloured, 

 in another they are edged like the anal with black, as described by the authors of the ' Fauna 

 Japonica.' It is probable that both this fish and the one preceding it will eventually prove to 

 be mere varieties of chrysopterus. In japonicus the stomach is nearly globular with three 

 conical pyloric caeca, and the eggs are oblong-oval, and not round. 



Hab. Seas of China and Japan. 



Amphiprion chrysopterus, C. et V. v. p. 401. 



Hab. Japanese sea. 



Tribus Pharyngognathi. 



Fam. Labridje. 



Labrus eothinus, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 197 ; Hardw. . Chinese 

 name, Tze ko, "Purple parrot" (Birch); Soo ho (Reeves); Su ko 

 (Bridgem. 219). Bad. D. 9|ll ; A. 3|10; C. 12f; P. 12; V. 1|5. 

 This fish agrees with L. poecilopleura and gayi in the number of the rays and in many 

 other characters, but differs from both as much as they do from one another. 



Teeth labroid, curved, acute and conical, diminishing as they recede from the symphysis ; 

 but a large curved canine tooth stands forwards from the angle of the mouth. A row of small 

 interior teeth runs as far back as the middle of the upper jaw, but in the lower jaw it is con- 

 fined to the front part. Five rows of small tiled scales cover the cheek up to the suborbital- 

 chain. None exist on the disc of the preoperculum, nor on the dilated interoperculum which 

 spreads under the throat. Large irregular scales cover the operculum. Lateral line traced 

 on twenty-six or twenty-seven scales by bushy muciferous canals. Each cluster is formed of 

 obtuse bifurcations thrice repeated, but the forks are less numerous near the bend of the line 

 at the end of the dorsal, and almost disappear in the short space behind it. The very even 

 dorsal and anal fins move in furrows formed by scaly fillets, and there is a filament behind 

 the tip of each dorsal spine. The drawing is coloured aurora-red, passing into hyacinth-red 

 on the back, with a darker meniscoid patch on the edge of each scale, and ten green lines ra- 

 diating from the eye forwards, across the top of the head and backwards over the nape, but 

 not on the cheek. There is also a yellowish tinge on the snouc. The vertical fins are coloured 

 like the body, but the dorsal and base of the caudal are glossed with yellow and green, and 

 the dorsal is marked by three rows of small olive-green spots. The ventrals are peach-blos- 

 som red, and the pectorals transparent, with a blue edge to their scaly base. Length of the 

 specimen 9| inches ; of the drawing, 7 inches. 

 Hab. China seas. Canton. 



Labrus rubiginosus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Bad. D. 9|ll ; A. 3|10; 

 C. 13£; P. 11 ; V. 1|5. (Spec. Br. Mus. inches long.) 



Our knowledge of this species is derived from one of Burger's Japanese specimens belong- 

 ing to the British Museum. It has the general form of L. eothinus, but is rather more slender, 

 and is further distinguished from that species by a purple spot at the base of the fifth dorsal 

 spine, some white spots on the back and four brown longitudinal lines. There are twenty- 

 five scales on the lateral line, and the muciferous canals on each are twice forked on the an- 

 terior part of the body, and more simple posteriorly, being no where bushy. The number of 

 the ' Fauna Japonica' which is to contain the descriptions of the Labridce is not yet published 

 (March 1, 1846), and we do not therefore know whether the authors of the work in their 

 selection of the specific epithet had reference to the Sparus rubiginosus of Solander, which is 

 either a Labrus or Iulis. This however has a lunate caudal with acute angles, while the Japa- 

 nese fish has a rounded or nearly square caudal (vide Iulis? rubiginosus, Richardson, 'Ann. 

 and Mag. of Nat. Hist.' for June 1843). 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



Labrus reticulatus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. pi. 83, 83 A, 84. 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



Labrus japonicus, C. et V. xiii. p. 99 ; Temm. et Schl. pi. 85. 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



Cossyphus reticulatus, C. et V. xiii. p. 139. Labrus reticulatus, Temm. 

 et Schl. F. J. Sieb. pi. 83 (Jun.), pi. 83 A. (Med. cctat.)-, pi. 84< (Adult). 



