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17549. Sorsogon market. March 12, 1909. Length, 171 mm. 

 11830. Sandakan market, Borneo. March 2, 1908. Length, 104 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 56210. San Fabian, PhUippines. Bureau of Fisheries (3268). 

 Length 123 mm. 



SCIAENA MACROPTERA (Bleeker) 



Umbrina tnacropterus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 4, p. 254, 



1863 (type locahty: Priaman, Sumatra). 

 Umbrina macroptera GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 279, 1860 (com- 

 piled). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 182, 1876 (Madras); Fauna Brit. 



India, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 108, 1889 (Madras). — Jordan and Starks, Ann. 



Carnegie Mus., vol. 11, p. 454, 1917 (Ceylon). — Barnard, Ann. South 



Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 581, 1927 (Natal). 

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



p. 60, 1874 (Sumatra; Nias); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 9, pi. (1) 384, 



fig. 5, 1877. 

 Sciaena macroptera Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 



p. 530, 1904 (Padang). — Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 63, 



art. 19, p. 18, 1923 (Sumatra). — Fowler, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 



vol. 30, p. 320, 1925 (Bombay). 

 Johnius macropterus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929 (1930), 



p. 652 (Padang specimen). (Error.) 



Depth 3K to 3K; head 3% to 3%, width 1% to 1%. Snout 3% to 3}i 

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

 K to ^ in eye, expansion 2 in eye, length 2% to 2^ in head; bands of 

 fine teeth in jaws, in 4 or 5 irregular series, outer upper row scarcely 

 enlarged; short mandibular barbel 5% to 6 in eye; interorbital 3 to 

 3% in head, broadly convex. Gill rakers 5 + 7 or 8 short points, 

 % to K of gill filaments, which Yi of eye. 



Scales 43 to 45 in lateral line to caudal base and 18 to 20 more out 

 over caudal medianly; 4 above, 7 or 8 below, 26 or 27 predorsal. 

 Scales with 7 to 11 basal radiating striae; 31 to 65 short apical den- 

 ticles, with 5 to 18 transverse series of basal elements; circuU fine. 



D. X, I, 31, 1, third spine 2 to 2% in head, third ray 2% to 2%; A. II, 

 7, I, second spine 2% to 2%, second ray 1% to 2; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 3 to 3%; pectoral Iji to 1%; ventral 1% to 1%; caudal 3 to 4% 

 in rest of body. 



Back dark brown, also sides below and on under surfaces whitish 

 with silvery white reflections. Iris pale yellowish white. Vertical 

 fins dusted with dull drab or dusky, spinous dorsal darkest. Barbel 

 and chin whitish. Pectoral pale brownish above, whitish below. 

 Ventrals white. 



Natal, India, Ceylon, East Indies, 



U.S.N.M. No. 72691. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length, 135 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 52990. Bombay, India. Prof. F. Hallberg. 1924. Purchased. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 27634. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. 

 Length, 148 mm. 



SaAENA DUSSUMIERI (Valenciennes) 



Umbrina dussumieri Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 9, p. 481, 1833 

 (type locality : Coromandel). — GI^nther, Cat. Fish Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 278, 

 1860 (no locality). — Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, p. 18 (Cochin, 



