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Back brown, sides and below silvery white. Slightly gray tinge 

 on opercle, not conspicuous. Iris silvery w^hite. Dorsals and caudal 

 brown, dusted with little darker terminally. Lower fins whitish. 



China, Japan. Keported from Cavite and Luzon by Elera, 

 though otherwise not known from the Philippines. None of my 

 examples show the dark spot on the opercle as in Jordan and Thomp- 

 son's figure, certainly greatly accentuated as compared with the 

 type. Sciaena ogiwara, based on a specimen 235 mm measured to 

 caudal base, seems to be synonymous. 



U.S.N.M. No. 62378. Port Arthur, Manchuria. J. F. Abbott. Length, 203 to 

 244 mm. Seven examples. As Corvula argentata. Some show median caudal 

 rays extended as points, so fin almost long as head. 



U.S.N.M. No. 67330. Port Arthur. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 290 mm. 

 Type of Sciaena manchurica. 



U.S.N.M. No. 85873. China. A. de C. Sowerby. Length, 99 to 128 mm. 

 Four examples. These evidently in formalin, have the silvery photophore 

 like spots on the ventral surface of the trunk and tail as in Collichthys lucidus, 

 these showing through the scales and in 12 transverse series across the belly, 

 but as they narrow posteriorly only 4 rows across above the anal base. 



U.S.N.M. No. 86661. Nanking, China. C. Ping. Length, 315 mm. Silvery 

 or gray photophore like spots showing through the scale rows all along the 

 back and upper sides. 



6856. Bureau of Fisheries. Kowloon. October 22, 1909. Length, 200 mm. 



Genus JOHNIUS Bloch 



Johnius Bloch, Naturg. Ausland. Fische, pt. 7, p. 132, 1793. (Type, Johnius 



caruita Bloch, designated by Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1861, p. 85.) 

 Corvina Cuvier, R^gne Animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 173, 1829. (Type, Corvina 



nigra CvviEn^ Sciaena umbra Linnaeus, designated by Gill, Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 85.) 

 Argyrosomus de la Pylaie, Congr. Sci. France, Poitiers (Recherches en France, 



Poiss.), p. 534, 1834 (1835). (Type, Argyrosomus procerus La Pylaie'= 



Labrus hololepidotus Laci^pIide, monotypic.) 

 Cheilotrema Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Fishes, p. 13, 1845. (Type, Cheilotrema 



fasciafum Tschudi, monotypic.) 

 Apeches Gistel, Naturg. Thierr., p. ix, 1848. (Type, Johnius carutla Bloch, 



virtually as Apeches Gistel proposed to replace Johnius Bloch.) 

 Melantha Gistel, Naturg. Thierr., p. 109, 1848. (Type, Melantha nigra Gi8TEL= 



Sciaena umbra Linnaeus, monotypic.) 

 Rhinoscion Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 85. (Type, 



Amblodon saturnus Girard, orthotypic.) 

 Callaus (Jordan) Jordan and Eigenmann, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm., 1886, pt. 



14, pp. 395, 401, 406, 1889. (Type, Corvina deliciosa Tschudi, orthotypic.) 

 Pseudomycterus Ogilbt, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 21, p. 94, 1908. (Type, 



Pseudomycierus maccullochi Ooilby'= Sciaena (Corvina) novae-hollandiae 



Steindachner, monotypic.) 

 Nibea Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 39, pp. 244, 246, 1911. 



(Type, Pseudotolithus mitsukurii Jordan and Snyder, designated by Jordan, 



Genera of fishes, pt. 4, p. 539, 1920.) 

 Pinnicorvina Fov/ler, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 162, p. 4, 1925. (Type, Rhinoscion 



epipcrcus Bleeker, orthotypic.) 



