portant part of the food fish of the natives. They are gracefully shaped fish, variously coloured, brown, yellowish, or grayish, and. have round tail fins. The common name for them out here is cod, and as such they are served at table. The pomfret is well known as a table British waters. There are several species belonging to the genus Pagrus. Some are blackish in feolour, others red or pink. All have very large heads and long fins, The Chinese name is Ta-thou Vu, {which means the "big-headed fish." In Japan these fish are called Lai.
More than one member of the garnerd family (Lriglidi) ave to be found off the coasts of China, but the commonest is' Lenidotrigla microptera, which means "the smal) finned, scaled gurnard." This is of a dull sandy colour. A more beautiful form is Chelidonicthys kum, which has very large pectoral fins, and. is brightly coloured. The gurnards may be known by their riely heads, which somewhat resem-, ble that of a bull-frog. A fish that' looks like a flattened out gurnard 1s the flat-head (Platycenhalus ins sidiator). This species frequents inshore shoal wafer, and is exactly the odour of the sandy bottom that inhabits. Tt is closely related to ithe members of the goby family (Gobiide), of which a number of peculiar forms are to be found, inhabiting reck pools and shallow waters in the neighbourhood of (Sebustodes fuscencens). jrocks along the coast line. A smal} species called Tridentiger difasciatus, or the two-banded goby, j18 extremely common. Rarer and more interesting; are Hanula fmbriidens and Tenioides abbott, both described from Port Arthur on the South Manchuzian vast, Tas
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