ON THE ICHTHYOLOGY OF THE SEAS OF CHINA AND JAPAN. 279 



Hippoglossus goniographicus, Icon. Reeves, 254 ; Hardw. Malac. 265. 



The ground colour of this drawing is yellowish-brown, marked like a map with large an- 

 gular blotches of dark umber- or liver-brown, which extend to the caudal, and one or two of 

 them also run out on the dorsal and anal. The membranes of the fin are between yellowish- 

 brown and rust-coloured, and their rays are obscurely speckled. Five or six umber-brown 

 bars cross the pectoral. Length of drawing 8^ inches. 



Hab. Coasts of China. Canton. 



Rhombus cinnamomeus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. pi. xciii. (Letter-press 

 not yet published.) 

 Hab. Sea of Japan. 



Samaris cristatus, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 8; Icon. Reeves, 171 ; Hardw. 

 Malac. 268. " Bad. D. 61 ; A. 51 ; C. 16 ; P. 4 ; V. 5." (Gray, /. c.) 

 Hab. Coasts of China. Canton. 



Solea ommatura, Richardson. Ieon. Reeves, /3. 13 ; Hardw. Malac. 273, 

 275. Chinese name, Hwa tat ska, " Flowered or variegated sole " 

 (Reeves) ; Hwa ta sha % , " Striped or flowery sole," also Woo teen ye, 

 " Black guava leaf" (Birch) ; Fa tat sha (Bridgem. Chrest. 204). Bad. 

 D. 70; A. 60; P. 11-11 ; V. 3 vel 4. (Spec. Camb. Phil. Inst.) 



Two of the Rev. George Vachell's specimens of this fish exist in the Cambridge Philoso- 

 phical Institution, and small ones are very common in the China insect-boxes. It belongs to 

 the subdivision of the genus which is characterized by the blending together of the three ver- 

 tical fins, and is very much like the Indian Solea zebra, but it is not so much elongated, and 

 has a peculiar eye-like mark on the caudal fin, formed by several yellow spots, inclosed by a 

 bright yellow parallelogram, of which one side is deficient. The body is crossed by about 

 twenty-three vertical whitish bars, alternately broader and narrower, and bent backwards, 

 where they run out on the fins. The intermediate spaces are wood-brown on the body and 

 blackish on the fins ; short bars radiate forward from the eyes on the snout. 



The eyes are on the right side, and are small and nearly contiguous. The teeth, if any 

 exist, are invisible to the naked eye. The left lips and gill-membranes are fringed, and the 

 latter are united to the pectorals, the union of the left gill-membrane being more conspicuous. 

 The scales on both sides of the fish are strongly ciliated and run up on the fin-rays. The 

 lateral line is straight. Length of the figure 8% inches. The specimens are smaller. 



In form this species is intermediate between the Jerreepotoo, B, Russell, 81, and Jerreepotoo, 

 C, 82 ; and in the geminate distribution of its vertical stripes it agrees with neither. 



Hab. Coasts of China. Canton. Sea of Borneo. 

 Solea ovalis, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 179 ; Hardw. Malac. 179. Chinese 



name, Teaou pan yu (Birch). * 



This greatly resembles Pleuronectes pan, Buch. Hamilton, pi. 24. f. 42 ; but the hinder end 

 is less acute, the form being a perfect oval, equally blunt both ways. The mouth also is cleft 

 beyond the eyes, which appear to be more approximated, and the dark liver-brown spots are 

 more numerous. The ground colour is reddish-brown. 



Hab. Coasts of China. 



Sole a foliacea, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, j3. 5; Hardw. Malac. 271. 

 Chinese name, Neen ye tze, " Guava-leafed sole " (Birch) ; Neem yeep tze 

 (Reeves) ; Nim ip tsai (Bridgem. Chrest. 203 ; Icon. Reeves, h. 91 ; 

 Hardw. Malac. 269). 



This differs little from the preceding, but the mouth is not so much cleft, the eyes smaller 

 and further apart, like those of Pleuronectes pan, and the spots are composed of a congeries of 

 smaller ones. The ground colour of drawing j3. 5 is pale reddish-brown, but in the smaller 

 one, h. 91, it is olive-green. 



Hab. Coasts of China. Canton. 



Solea ovata, Richardson. Bad. D. 65; A. 47; C. 21 ; P. 9, &c. 

 (Spec. Camb. Phil. Inst.) 



In this species the rounded caudal is well distinguished from the other two vertical fins, 

 * The term ta ska, applied to the sole, means " to beat the sand." 



