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Umbrina russelii Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 178, 1830 (Coromandel) . — 

 Lay and Bennett, Zool. Beechey's Voy., p. 51, 1839 (Macao). — Richard- 

 son, Ichth. China Japan, p. 226, 1846 (China Seas, Canton). 



Umbrina russellii Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 278, 1859 (May- 

 layan Peninsula). — Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 131, 1865 (Ceylon). — 

 Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 183, pi. 43, fig. 4, 1876; Fauna Brit. India. 

 Fishes, vol. 2, p. 110, 1889.— Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 500, 1895 

 (Manila; Luzon). — Duncker, Mitt. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, 

 p. 154, 1903 (1904) (Bandar Maharani). — Tirant, Service Oc6anogr. Peche 

 Indo-Chine, note 6, pp. 9, 16 (169) 1929 (Hue River). 



Umbrina russelii Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, p. 1053, 1849 

 (Pinang, Malay Peninsula, Singapore). — Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. 

 Fisher., vol. 26, p. 25 1906 (1907) (Cavite).— Evermann and Seale, Bull. 

 Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. 87, 1906 (1907) (San Fabian).— Seale, Philippine 

 Journ. Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, p. 279, 1910 (Sandakan, Borneo). 



Umbrina rusellii Gorqoza, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, p. 73, 

 1885 (Manila). 



Sciaena russelii Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, No. 4, 

 p. 58, 1874 (Singapore, Bintang, Banka, Java, Madura, Celebes); Atlas 

 Ichth., vol. 9, pi. (3) 386, fig. 2, 1877.— Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1927, p. 286 (Pliilippines). 



Sciaena russeli Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 63, art. 19, p. 17, 

 1923 (Philippines). 



Umbrina kuhlii Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 170, 1830 (type locality: Java). 



Johnius kuhli Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, p. 56, 1865 (Amoy). 



Depth 3% to S%; head 3 to 3%, width 2% to 2%. Snout 3% to Z% in 

 head; eye Sji to 4, subequal with snout, shghtly greater than interor- 

 bital; maxillary reaches % to % in eye, expansion 2% to 2% in eye, 

 length 2% to 2% in head; mandibular barbel 1% in eye, 2 pores each 

 side; bands of minute villiform teeth in each jaw; interorbital 4% to 

 02, sUghtly convex; preopercle edge denticulate. Gill rakers 6 + 10, 

 low short points, Iji in gill filaments, which 2)^ in eye. 



Scales 45 in lateral line to caudal base; 7 above, 8 below, 28 pre- 

 dorsal; anteriorly in lateral hne each tube with 2 short branches. 

 Scales Mdth 11 basal radiating striae; 25 or 26 apical denticles, with 7 

 or 8 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. XI, 26, I or 27, i, second spine 2% to 2^ in head, first ray 2% to 

 2%; A. II, 7, 1, second spine 2}^ to 2%, first ray 1% to 1%; caudal iKo to 

 1%, cuneate; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 to 3)^; pectoral IK to 

 \%; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Light brown generally, little paler below, back and head above 

 dusted with dusky brown. Opercle largely dusky. Iris slate. 

 Barbel pale or whitish. Spinous dorsal largely blackish terminally. 

 Soft vertical fins with gray on outer portions. Paired fins whitish. 



India, Ceylon, Malayan Peninsula, East Indies, Philippines, Indo- 

 China, Amoy. 



D. 5461. Caringo Island (W.), N. 12°, W. 4.9 miles (lat. 13° 57' 42" N., long. 

 123° 6' 42" E.). June 14, 1909. Length, 115 to 138 mm. Fifteen examples. 

 19759 [1526]. Manila market. April 20, 1909. Length, 178 mm. 



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