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z^. No dark body bands ; 

 first dorsal black, 

 vertical fins dark 

 terminally. 



coitor. 



a^. Tubular scales 75 to 80 in lateral line trachycephalus, 



a*. Tubular scales 90 in lateral line microlepis. 



JOHNIUS GOMA (Tanaka) 



Sciaena goma Tanaka, Zool. Mag. Tokyo, vol. 27, p. 615, 1915 (type locality: 

 Nagasaki) ; Fishes of Japan, vol. 22, p. 392, pi. 107, fig. 327, 1916 (Nagasaki). 



Depth 3}^; head 3. Snout d% in head; eye Uttle less than 7; maxil- 

 lary nearly reaches K in eye, expansion nearly equals eye, length 2% 

 in head; lower jaw little shorter than upper; rather wide band of villi- 

 form teeth in jaws, upper band wider; upper outer row of large teeth, 

 lower inner row little enlarged; preopercle with feeble serrae. Gill 

 rakers 5 + 7, besides rudiments, longest 4 in eye. 



Scales 78 in vertical and 57 oblique rows along above lateral line 

 to caudal base; 52 pores in lateral line to caudal base; 9 scales above, 

 13 below; caudal scaled basally; dorsal and anal membranes scaleless. 



D. XI, 22, fourth spine 2% in head, first ray 2%; A. II, 7, second 

 spine SYz, 2 in postocular, second ray 2, or 2}^ in head; caudal 1%, 

 cuneate; least depth of caudal peduncle 3%; pectoral 1%; ventral 2, 



Dark brown, slightly paler below. Slightly darker parallel streaks 

 obliquely up and back, formed by punctulations on center of each 

 scale. Darker spots dispersed rather sparsely in soft dorsal, much 

 fewer below lateral line and on head. Mouth white, dusky in pharynx. 

 Dorsal light dusky. Anal and paired fins blackish brown. Caudal 

 paler and indistinctly spotted on upper half, lower much darker. 

 Length, 358 mm. (Tanaka.) 



Nagasaki, Japan. 



JOHNIUS DIACANTHUS (Lacepfede) 



Ltttjanus diacardhus Lacep^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, pp. 195, 240, 1802 

 ("La collection hollandoise c6d4e k France") (no locality). 



Johnius diacanthus Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, p. 1049, 1849 

 (Pinang, Malay Peninsula, Singapore). — Mason, Burmah Nat. Resources, 

 p. 695, I860.— Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 133, 1865 (Madras and 50 

 miles off Ceylon). — Fowler, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 30, No. 

 4, p. 777, 1926 (Bombay) ; vol. 33, No. 1, p. 115, 1928 (Bombay) ; Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929 (1930), p. 596 (Shanghai), p. 611 (Hong Kong). 



Sciaena diacanthus GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 290, 1860 (China, 

 Bay of Bengal, Malayan Peninsula, Calcutta). — Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1865, p. 18 (Cochin, Malabar); Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 189, 1876 

 (Hooghly high as Calcutta). — Karoli, Term6sz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 

 p. 159, 1881 (Singapore). — Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 118, 

 1889.— Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 501, 1895 (Manila, Luzon).— 

 DxJNCKER, Mitt. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, p. 154, 1903 (1904) 

 (Kuala Selangor). — Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, No. 1, p. 68, 1914 

 (Hong Kong). — Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 3, 

 vol. 10, p. 578, 1926 (Sarawak). 



