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India, Burma, Malacca, Indo-China, China. Also reported from 

 the PhiUppines by Elera. Quite likely Corvina grypota Richardson 

 may be a synonym. It is incompletely noticed as follows: 



Maxillary slips below preorbital its entire length; upper teeth 

 villiform, with stronger, subulate outer even row; lower teeth vilU- 

 form; minute pores on snout, 5 large pores at end of mandible; pre- 

 opercle with wide set slender denticles. 



Scales tender, nacry, very deciduous; cheek and mandible scaly. 

 Lateral line of simple tubes, boldly arched anteriorly. 



D. X, I, 29; A. II, 7 or 8, second spine not strong, little shorter than 

 soft rays; caudal partly rhomboidal; ventral with short filamentous 

 tip. 



Mostly silvery, some yellow tints on fore part of anal and paired 

 fins. Length, 175 mm. 



JOHNIUS TRACHYCEPHALUS (Bleeker) 



Corvina trachT/cephalus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 1, p. 269, 



1850 (type locality: Bandjermassing, in river, Borneo). 

 Sciaena trachycephalus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 293, 1860 



(compiled). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 4, p. 16, 1869 (Saigon). 

 Johnius trachycephahis Bleeker, Verb. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, 



No. 4, p. 41, 1874 (Sumatra; Borneo); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 9, 



pi. (3) 386, fig. 1, 1877. 



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

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

 length 2}^ in head; lower jaw little shorter than upper; teeth villi- 

 form, outer upper row but little enlarged, mandibular subequal; 

 interorbital rather low; preopercle edge denticulate. 



Scales 75 to 80 along above lateral line, 65 to 70 along below; 

 8 or 9 above, figure shows 10 above anal origin; vertical fins all 

 largely with fine scales basally. 



D. VIII, I, 24 to 28 (IX spines on figure), third spine 2Ko in head, 

 fourth ray 2%; A. II, 6 or 7, second spine moderate, 3% in head or 

 1% in postocular, third ray 2% in head; caudal 1, cuneate; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 4; pectoral Iji; ventral IK, first ray ending in 

 filament. 



Above bluish or yellowish gray, sides and below yellowish silvery. 

 Iris yellowish. Fins yellowish with more or less gray-brown tint. 

 Length, 105 to 130 mm. (Bleeker.) 



East Indies, Indo-Cliina. 



JOHNIUS MICROLEPIS (Bleeker) 



Johnius microlepis Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N^erland. (Sumatra), vol. 5, 

 p. 11, 1858-1859 (type locality : Palembang, Mussi River mouth, Sumatra). 



Pseudosciaena microlepis Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 

 3, vol. 14, p. 23, 1874 (Sumatra; Singapore); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., 

 vol. 9, pi. (4) 387, fig. 3, 1877. 



