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Grayish or brownish, with silvery sheen. Nine wide, sinuous, 

 obHque dark bands, wider than interspaces. Opercle and pectoral 

 axil blackish. Spinous dorsal and ventrals black. Soft dorsal and 

 anal with black edges. Caudal with dusky edge. According to Day 

 bands more numerous with age, being outer edges of wide bands in 

 young. Length, 420 mm. (Barnard.) 



Natal coast, Persian Gulf, Indian Seas. 



SCIAENA STRIATA (Boulenger) 



Umbrina striata Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 660 (tj^pe locality: 

 Muscat; East Arabia); 1889, p. 245 (Muscat). — Gilchrist and Thompson, 

 Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 6, p. 181, 1908-1911 (Natal).— Zugmayer, 

 Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. Kl., vol. 26, p. 12, 1913 (Oman).— 

 Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 11, p. 58, 1911 

 (error); Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 4, p. 351, 1917 (compiled). — Barnard, 

 Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 580, 1927 (East London; Natal 

 coast) . 



Sciaena striata Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 248 (Natal 

 coast in 20 fathoms). 



Umbrina capensis (not Pappe) von Bonde, Marine Surv. South Africa, Spec. 

 Rep. 1, p. 15, 1923 (Natal). 



Depth 2%; head 3)^, width 2Ko. Snout 3% in head; eye 4:%, 1% in 

 snout, \)i in interorbital ; maxillary reaches opposite front pupil edge, 

 expansion 2% in eye, length 2% in head; chin with barbel K of pupil, 2 

 pores each side and snout end with 6 ; interorbital 4 in head, convex. 

 Gill rakers 5+11, short points. 



Scales 47 in lateral hne to caudal base and 17 more out over caudal, 

 8 above, 11 below, 42 predorsal. Scales with 14 or 15 basal radiating 

 striae; 73 to 96 apical points, with 4 or 5 transverse rows of basal 

 elements; circuli fine. 



D. X, I, 28, I, fourth spine 2)^ in head, eighth ray 3; A. II, 7, i, 

 second spine 3)i, second ray 2?^; caudal 1%; pectoral IK; ventral 1%. 



Brown, Uttle paler below. Back and upper side with 9 broad 

 neutral dusky, obhque bands, counted vertically, all crossing lateral 

 line and posterior broader. Fins brown, front of anal and ventral 

 dusky terminally. 



Arabia, Oman, Natal, South Africa. Differs from Sciaena capensis 

 in that the dark bands are less oblique, as dark band from pectoral 

 axil extends to last dorsal rays (not middle) or upper part of caudal 

 peduncle. 



A.N.S.P. No. 53045. Natal coast south, in 20 fathoms. 1925. H. W. Bell 

 Marley. Length, 332 mm. 



SCIAENA INDICA Kuhl and Van Hasselt 



Sciaena indica Kuhl and Van Hasselt, Bull. Sci. Nat. et G^ol. Ferussac, vol. 2, 



pp. 374, 377, 1824 (type locality: Java). 

 Ombrina russelii Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 174, 1829 (on Qualar 



katchelee Russell, Fishes of Coromandel, vol. 2, p. 13, pi. 118, 1803, type 



locality: Vizagapatam) . {Ombrina misprint.) 



