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from snout tip; 2 upper front canines and 2 lower laterals on each 

 mandibular ramus; interorbital low; preopercle denticulate. 



Scales 120 along above lateral line, 110 along below; 15 above, 

 about 30 below. 



D. IX, I, 28, I, second spine 2% in total head, first ray 2%; A. II, 

 7, I, second spine 7, first ray 3%; least depth of caudal peduncle 5; 

 caudal 1%, cuneate, ends broadly in median point behind; pectoral 

 1%; ventral 1%, first ray ends in short filament. 



Above greenish gray, sides yellowish green, below gray-white, 

 everywhere more or less dusted with gray. Iris yellow. Fins yel- 

 lowish, mostly dusky gray terminally. Length, 299 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Malacca, Tenasserim, East Indies, China. Bleeker had but a 

 single example and the above description is compiled from his figure 

 and description. 



Day says: ''The longest specimen in the Calcutta Museum is 42 

 inches." He notes the soft dorsal rays as 27 to 33, scales along above 

 lateral line 115 and along below 95, 12 above transversely and 25 

 below trans v^ersely. He gives eyes 7 or 8, 2 in snout, 2 in interorbital. 

 Maxillary reaches below last third or hind eye edge, though his 

 figure shows it extending shghtly beyond the eye. Upper jaw 

 overlaps the lower, though on figure about even. 



OTOLITHOroES BRUNNEUS (Day) 



OtoUthus brunneus Day, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 11, p. 524, 1873 (type 

 locality: Bombay). 



Sciaenoides brunneus Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 195, pi. 45, fig. 6, 1876 (Bom- 

 bay); Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 126, fig. 50, 1889. — Hardenberg, 

 Treubia, vol. 13, livr. 1, p. 134, 1931 (Rokan mouth, Sumatra). 



Collichthys brunneus Fowler, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. 33, No. 1, 

 p. 115, 1928 (Bombay). 



Depth 4 to 4%; head 3}^ to 3%, width 2. Snout 3% to 4 in head; 

 eye 4}{ to 5%, 1% to 1% in snout, 1 to 1% in interorbital; maxillary 

 reaches opposite hind eye edge in young or a little beyond with age ; 

 lower jaw slightly shorter than upper, pair of pores and pair of short 

 slits at chin; teeth in narrow viUiform bands in jaws, upper outer 

 row of strong well-spaced canines, 4 of which show when mouth 

 closes and inner lower row of small canines; interorbital 4% to 4%, 

 broadly convex; preopercle edge with short flexible points. Gill 

 rakers 6+11, lanceolate, very slightly less than gill filaments, which 

 1% in eye. 



Scales 50 or 51 in lateral line to caudal base and 21 to 30 more out 

 over caudal fin; 78 scales counted close along above lateral line to 

 caudal base; 10 or 11 scales above lateral line, 9 to 12 below, 45 pre- 

 dorsal forward to snout tip; 14 principal rows of scales across cheek; 

 soft dorsal and anal broadly covered with fine scales basally and caudal 

 largely finely scaled. Scales with 11 basal radiating striae; 31 or 32 

 apical denticles, with 8 transverseseriesof basal elements; circuli fine. 



