414 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Mekran, Madagascar, India, East Indies, Philippines, Indo-China, 

 China. Umbrina fuscolineata von Bonde is very closely related, 

 evidently synonymous. Barnard says that the "chief difference" 

 from Sciaena dussumieri "lies in the lower spinous dorsal, which in 

 dussumieri is much higher, being nearly or quite equal to the depth 

 of the body." Blocker's figure shows it 1%. 



22517, 22519. Dagupan, Luzon. March 19, 1908. Length, 77 to 100 mm. 



Twenty-four examples. Manila Bay. December 6, 1907. Length, 83 to 

 98 mm. Abundant on sandy shores. Drummed audibly when touched. All 

 individuals appeared to drum and on dissection, though gonads not greatly 

 developed, both sexes seemed to be represented. Three or four most posterior 

 more simple and directed nearly straight backward. The air bladder is of 

 moderate size, pointed posteriorly and with bilobed head and all compound 

 racemose, hollow and filled with air. Color of all upper parts bluish dusky or 

 slaty, white below. Fins slaty, caudal greenish. 



6546. Off Daet. June 15, 1909. Length, 145 mm. 



5021 to 5023. Tacloban market. July 25, 1909. Length, 188 to 203 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 56123. San Fabian. Bureau of Fisheries (4097). Length, 131 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 57979. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length, 128 to 139 

 mm. Three examples. 



Two examples, A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 

 Length, 60 to 140 mm. 



A.N.S.P. Nos. 52711 to 52716. Orion, Luzon. May 11, 1923. Rev. Joseph, 

 Clemens. Purchased. Length, 60 to 140 mm. 



Four examples, A.N.S.P. Bombay. Bombay Natural History Society. Length 

 144 to 217 mm. 



A.N.S.P. No. 53023. Durban beach. Natal. H. W. Bell Marley. Length, 243 mm. 



Subgenus Ctenosciaena Fowler and Bean 



SCIAENA DUBIA Fowler and Bean 



Sciaena dubia Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 63, art. 19, p. 16, 

 1923 (no locality). 



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

 than snout or interorbital ; maxillary reaches % in eye, expansion 3 in 

 eye, length 2% in head; chin with 4 pores and short median barbel; 

 teeth uniformly fine, minute, in narrow band in each jaw; interorbital 

 4 ; preopercle entire. Gill rakers 8 + 14, equal gill filaments or 2^ in eye. 



Scales (pockets) 42? in lateral line to caudal base; rows above 

 lateral line parallel, below horizontal, largest and narrowly imbricated 

 along sides medially; small scales on dorsal and caudal basally. 

 Scales with 6 basal radiating striae; 30 short apical denticles; circuli 

 fine. 



D. X, I, 23, fourth spine 2% in head; A. II, 8, i, second spine 2Ko; 

 caudal damaged; caudal peduncle 3; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



Back dull slate-brown, belly and lower surface pale, with silvery 

 white sheen. Fins and iris all dull brown. 



In many ways this species resembles Sciaena indica Kuhl and Van 

 Hasselt but differs in its greatly longer gill rakers. 



