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U.S.N. M. No. 52080. Shanghai, China. Length, 117 mm. Type of Collichthys 

 fragilis. 



U.S.N.M. No. 57777. Japan. P. L. Jouy. One example, 145 mm? (in poor 

 condition). As Collichthys fragilis. 



U.S.N.M. No. 62374. Port Arthur, Manchuria. J. F. Abbott. Length, 70 

 to 120? mm. Nine examples. Evidently formalin specimens from which all 

 scales have fallen. All show rows of yellowish or white spots arranged ven- 

 trally along the trunk and tail, like the photophores of scopelids. Similar spots 

 also show in other formalin specimens from which the scales have not fallen. 



U.S.N.M. No. 62376. Port Arthur. J. F. Abbott. Length, 90 to 125 mm. 

 Eleven examples. 



U.S.N.M. No. 83997. Soo Chow. N. Gist Gee. Length, 90 mm. Caudal 

 2}^ in rest of body. 



U.S.N.M. No. 86096. Nanking, China. C. Ping. Length, 130 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 86335. China. A. de C. Sowerby. Length, 181 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 86455. China. A. de C. Sowerby. Length, 148 to 165 mm. 

 Four examples. 



U.S.N.M. No. 86663. China. C. Ping. Length, 160 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 97063. Shanghai. A. de C. Sowerby. Length, 140 to 200 mm. 



Seven examples. 



OTOLITHOIDES, new genus 



Sciaenoides (not Richaedson, 1843) Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 29, 

 p. 139, 1860. (Type, Otolithus biauritus Cantor, designated by Jordan 

 and EiGENMANN, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm., 1886, pt. 14, p. 347, 1889.) 



Type.' — Otolithus biauritus Cantor, 



Diagnosis. — Differs from Collichthys in the firm bones of the head 

 with extensive muciferous cavities. Its contour approaches Otolithus, 

 from which it differs, however, in the less pronounced dentition, the 

 teeth hardly caninelike and some only sUghtly or inconspicuously 

 enlarged. 



Sciaenoides cochinchinensis Bleeker as credited to Bleeker by 

 Tirant " I have not located. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a*. Soft dorsal rays 34 to 36; 95 scalers along above lateral line microdon. 



a«. Soft dorsal rays 27 to 29. 



¥. Scales 120 along above lateral line; brownish above, paler below, biauritus. 



b^. Scales 78 along above lateral line; grayish, fins blackish brunneus. 



OTOLITHOIDES MICRODON (Bleeker) 



Otolithus microdon Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 1, p. 99, 1850 

 (type locality: Batavia; Samarang; Surabaya). 



Sciaena microdon GDnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 294, 1859 (com- 

 piled). — Duncker, Mitt. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, p. 154, 1903 

 (1904) (Kuala Lumpur). — Lloyd, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 1, p. 226, 1907 

 (Akyab). 



Collichthys microdon Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, p. 117, 1873 

 (China); Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, No. 4, p. 16, 1874 

 (Sumatra, Pinang, Singapore, Java, Madura, Borneo). 



1" otolithus +«;5os, appearance. 



11 Service Oceanogr. P6ch. Indo-Chine, note 6, p. 169, 1929 (Phuoc Hai). 



