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site direction at the lateral line. Length of the specimen, 2'15 inches. Height of its body, 

 0*85 inch. Length of figure, 6 inches. 



Hab. China seas. Macao. 



Another Trachinotus, resembling the preceding, but apparently not the same, exists in the 

 Chinese collection at Hyde Park. Its numbers are — Rays, D. 8|16; A. 3|16; V. 1|5, &c. 

 The first dorsal spine is very small, the second one is the highest, and is large and greatly 

 compressed. The first anal spine also is very short, the second one strong, and the third one 

 as tall as the second, but slender, delicate, and looking like a soft ray. The examination of 

 this specimen was too hurried to enable me to record other particulars. 



Hab. China seas. Macao. 



Blepharis fasciatus, Ruppell, Atl. p. 129. pi. 32. f. 2 ; Icon. Reeves, 269; 



Hardw. 214. Chinese name, Pih seu kung "White-haired sir" (Birch) ; 



Pak seu kung (Reeves) ; Pak su kung (Bridgem. Chrest. 36). Same 



name as the Scyris indica. Pad. D. 8|23 ; A, 2|-l|19 ; C. 16{% ; P. l|16; 



V. 1|5. (Spec. Camb. Ph. Inst.) 



A specimen brought from Canton by the Rev. George Vachell exists in the Museum of the 

 Cambridge Philosophical Institution. Its rays differ a little from the numbers given by Rup- 

 pell, but the profile so closely corresponds that I have little hesitation in considering it to be 

 his species. The dorsal spines are arched, the third one being tallest, and the first, seventh 

 and eighth very short. Scales small and deeply imbedded. Lateral line completing its curve 

 under the fourteenth or fifteenth soft dorsal rays, keeled in the tail and armed with minute 

 closely-incumbent shields, which gradually pass into a torulose line as they approach the 

 curve. 



Hab. China and Red seas. 



Blepharis indicus, C. et V. ix.p. 154? ; Temm. et Schl. p. 113. pi. 60. f. 2. 



This is a shorter and higher fish than the preceding, and has not so convex a cranium. In 

 the text of the ' Fauna Japonica ' six dorsal spines are mentioned, but the figure shows 

 eight, and one at the base of the soft ray. 



Hab. Sea of Japan. The Moluccas. 



Gallichthys major, C. et V. ix. p. 168. pi. 254; Russell, 57; Icon. 

 Reeves, 189 ; Hardw. 211. Chinese name, Chang e mong, "Long-finned 

 mong" (Reeves); Cheung yik mong (Bridgem. Chrest. 35). Pad. D. 

 6|-1|19; A.l|16; P.18; V. 1|5. (Spec. Camb. Ph. Inst.) 

 A specimen obtained by the Rev. George Vachell at Macao was presented by him to the 

 Cambridge Philosophical Institution. It agrees with the plate in the ' Histoire des Poissons,' 

 except in the profile, from the nostrils to the mouth being rather more oblique, as represented 

 in Bloch's plate, 192. f. 1. The teeth are minute in several rows below, in one or two above. 

 The scales of the body are invisible to the naked eye, but may be detected by a common eye- 

 glass. The lateral line is composed of tubes, giving it a torulose appearance ; and on the 

 slender part of the tail the little eminences become wider, making approach to obtuse shields. 

 The usual recumbent spine exists before the dorsal, and it is preceded by three interspinous 

 bones whose thin nail-like heads show through the integument. There are also two inter- 

 spinous bones protruding before the anal. The anterior filamentous branches of the first four 

 dorsal and anal rays are black, and the anal also is black. Mr. Reeves's drawing is very sil- 

 very, with a faint diffused blush of red-lilac-purple, and four vertical bands of that colour 

 a little darker, but still very pale. There are crimson blotches on the base of the pectorals, 

 the inner edge of the ventrals, and under part of the anal and dorsal. Length of figure 

 6 inches. 



Hab. China seas. Moluccas and Indian ocean. 



Seriola purpurascens, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 113. pi. 61. "Pad. 

 D. 7|-1|30 ; A. 2|-1|20 ; C. 25 ; P. 20 ; V. 1|5." (F. J.) 

 Hab. Sea of Japan. 



Seriola auro-vittata, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 115 (pi. 62. f. 1 



not yet published) ; Icon. Reeves, 230; Hardw. 210. Chinese name, Kin 

 peen c/ie, "Gold-edged pool" (Birch); Kumpeenche, "Golden-bordered" 

 (Reeves). Pad. D.7|-l|32; A.2|-l|20; C. 17f ; P. 18; V.l|5. (Chinese 

 spec. Br. Mus.) 



Besides the principal yellow band, Mr. Reeves's figure shows another, which runs from the 



