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porous lines on the cheek and jaws and the clusters of scales on the gill-cover and temples 

 are the same in both. The caudal fin of the specimen is an inch and a half long. 

 Hab. Japan. 



Page 207. 



Sicydium obscurum, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 144. pi. 76. f. 1. " Rad. 

 D. 6)-ll ; A. 10 vel 11 ; C. 16 ; P. 16 ; V. 10." (/. c.) Length 4 inches. 

 Hab. Rivers in the bay of Nagasaki, Japan. 



Amblyopus lacefedii, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 145. pi. 75. f. 2. 

 "Bad. B. 5 ; D. 6|42 ; A. 1|41 ; C. 15; P. 32 ; V. 12." (I.e.) Length 

 15 inches. 



This species differs in the length of the caudal, the height of the other fins, and in colour 

 from Amblyopus rugosus and anguillaris, described in p. 207 of the Report. In the numbers 

 of the rays it approaches the species noticed in the foot note to that page. 



Hab. In the mud of bays on the coast of Japan. 



Periophthalmus modestus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 1 47. pi. 76. f. 2. 

 Length 3 inches. 



(This fish has fewer rays in the first dorsal than the one similarly named by Cantor in his 

 Report on the Fauna of Chusan, p. 29 (vide ante, p. 208), but his brief description offers no 

 other discrepancy. The authors of the ' Fauna Japonica' do not appear to have been aware 

 of the previous employment of the specific name modestus. 



Hab. Salt ponds and shallow water on the coast of Japan. 



Boleophthalmus boddaertii, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 148. pi. 76. f. 3. The information 

 given in the ' Fauna Japonica' enables us to increase our list of the places of capture of this 

 fish, by the addition of the seas of Japan, Java and Borneo (vide Report, p. 208). 



Page 209. 



Eleotris obscura, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 149. pi. 77- f. 1? 2, 3. 



" Rad. D. 7j-9 vel 10 ; A. 8 vel 9 ; C. 15 ; P. 15 ; V. 5." (7. c.) Length 



one foot. 



The British Museum possesses two small specimens from Japan, measuring respectively 4£ 

 and 7\ inches. 



Hab. Rivers which fall into the bay of Nagasaki, Japan. 



Eleotris oxycephala, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 150. pi. 77. fig. 4, 5. 

 "Rad. D. 6|-9 ; A. 9 ; C. 16 ; P. 17 ; V. 5." (/. c.) Length 1\ inches. 



The description of this species corresponds in many particulars with the characters of El. 

 cantherius, but as the head only is represented in the plate, we cannot determine whether the 

 general resemblance is sufficiently close to justify the suppression of one of the specific names. 

 Mr. Reeves's drawing does not exhibit the gibbosity of the snout, occasioned by the inter- 

 maxillary pedicles which is shown in the figure in the ' Fauna Japonica,' and the colours 

 noticed in the description in the latter work being those of the specimen after long maceration 

 in spirits do not agree very closely with the Chinese drawing. 



Hab. Japan. 



Page 210. 

 Callionymus longicaudatus (Temm. et Schl. F.J. Sieb. p. 151. pi. 78. f. 1 ) 



Is evidently the fish that we have described and figured as the female of C. reevesil in the 

 Ichthyology of the Sulphur's Voyage, published in April 1844. 



Callionymus altivelis, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. pi. 79. f. 1. 



This is a different species from any that is noticed in the body of the Report. The letter- 

 press relating to it has not reached us. 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



