272 report — 1845. 



eye over the supra-scapulars. The ventrals are blotched with purple and green, and there are 

 differences in the tints of less moment. It is a shorter fish than purpurascens. 

 Hab. Seas of China and Japan. Canton. 



Seriola quinqueradiata, Temm. et Schi. F. J. Sieb. p. 115. pi. 62. f. 2. 



"Rad. D. 5 -1 32 ; A. 2]-l 19 ; C. 22 ; P. 22; V. 1|5." (F. J.) 

 6-131; 2[-l 20 ; P. 20, &c. (Spec. Br. Mus.) 



It is probable that this is a mere variety of auro-vittata. In a specimen in the British 

 Museum which was brought from China by Mr. Reeves, we found six spines in the first dorsal. 

 This individual presented no other difference in form from auro-vittata, except that the teeth 

 were a little shorter and more closely villiform. It measured ten inches, and the specimen 

 of auro-vittata, with which it was carefully compared, exceeded it by only one inch. 



Hab. Seas of China and Japan. 



Seriola intermedia, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 116. "Had. D. 

 7|-1|32; A.l|-l|15; C. 16£; P. 21 ; V. 1|5." (F. J.) 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 

 Lactarius delicatulus, Bl. Schn. p. 31 (Scomber lactarius), C. et V.ix. 

 p. 238 ; Chundawah, Russell, 108; Icon, Reeves, 170; Hardw. Acanth. 38 ; 

 (Scales very deciduous) Reeves. 

 Hab. China sea and Indian ocean. 



Nomeus mauritii, Cuv. Regn. An. l re ed. ii. p. 315 ; C. et V. ix. p. 243. 

 pi. 262 (Seriola argyromelas). 



In Sir Edward Belcher's collection several specimens of this fish were marked as having 

 been taken in the China seas. They have not the marks of N. peronii, but correspond well 

 with the figure of mauritii in the ' Histoire des Poissons.' 



Hab. Brazils. Coast of Guinea and sea of China. 



Emmelichthys schlegelii, Richardson. Erythrichthys, Temm. et Schl. 



F. J. Sieb. p. 117. "pi. 63. f. 1." 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



The ninth decade of the Ichthyological part of the ' Fauna Japonica' has just reached me as 

 this sheet is passing through the press, and I perceive by the figure of Erythrichthys in the 

 63rd plate, that the genus is identical with the Australian one which I published in the ' Ich- 

 thyology of the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror,' on the 1st of March 1845. I do not know 

 the date of the letter-press of the ' Fauna Japonica' describing Erythrichthys. The Australian 

 species differs in the form of its preorbitar and in the dorsal spines. The genus seems to me 

 to be more allied to the Sparoid or Maenoid families than to the Scomberoid, from which it 

 differs in its ptenoid scales. 



Scombrops, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 118. «pl. 63. f. 2." 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



Coryphjena japonica, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 120. pi. 64. 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 

 Strom ateus argenteus, Bloch, 421 ; C. et V. ix. p. 393 ; Icon. Reeves, 



/3. 32 ; Hardw. 227. Chinese name, Tsang yu (Reeves, Birch) ; Tsong u 



(Bridgem. Chrest. 148). This is one of the most common fish brought to 



table during its season in China (Reeves). Rad, D.?|44 ; A. 46 ; C. 15f ; 



P. 24. (Dried spec. Br. Mus.) 



Mr. Reeves presented a specimen to the British Museum. No spine6 protrude through the 

 skin in front of the dorsal, but six or seven interspinous bones show through the thick integu- 

 ment. Two or three rays of the anal also are deeply concealed in the front of the fin. This 

 specimen, compared with Russell's figure of candidus (pi. 42), was found to differ in the po- 

 sition of the anus relative to the anal fin, and to want the streaks in the supra-scapular region, 

 there being only a few on the nape. The operculum itself is marked by striae diverging from 

 its upper anterior corner. The profile is a little gibbous behind the eye, and as evenly curved 

 as in candidus. The specimen measured \l\ inches in length, and the figure 14£; the body 

 being 7£ high in the latter. 



Hab. China seas. Canton. Indian ocean. 



Strom ateus niger, Bloch, 160 (Str.paru), C. et V. ix. p. 385. Nalla sanda- 



