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similar, only blotches as 3 or 4 transverse irregular rows. Ventral 

 neutral dusky. Paired fins same. 



India, Ceylon, Burma, Malayan Peninsula, East Indies, Philippines, 

 China. According to Day it reaches 1,525 mm and enters tidal 

 waters. My examples are much more coarsely spotted than in 

 Bleeker's figure of Pseudosciaena diacanthus, or more as in Corvina 

 nigromaculata Borodin. 



Eight examples, A.N.S.P. Bombay. Bombay Natural History Society. 



Length, 190 to 280 mm. 

 One example, A.N.S.P. Bombay. Prof. F. Hallberg. Length, 308 mm. 



JOHNIUS ANEUS Bloch 



Johnius aneus Bloch, Naturg. Ausland. Fische, pt. 7, p. 135, pi. 257, 1793 

 (type locality: Malabar). — Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 74, 1801 

 (Tranquebar) . 



Johnius aeneus Fowler, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 30, No. 4, p. 777, 

 1926 (Bombay); Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 285 (Philip- 

 pines). (Error.) 



Labrus aneus Lacbp^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, pp. 447, 517, 1802 (on Block). 



Corvina anei Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 131, 1830 (on Bloch). 



Otolithus aneus Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 939 (Madras); 1870, p. 684 

 (Andamans). 



Otolithes aneus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1931, p. 446 (Singa- 

 pore) . 



Sciaena aneus Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 189, pi. 45, fig. 5, 1876 (Batavia, 

 Bombay, Andamans, Madras); Fauna Brit. India, vol. 2, p. 119, 1889. — 

 Lloyd, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 1, p. 226, 1907 (Akyab). — Seale, Philippine 

 Journ. Sci., vol. 9, No. 1, p. 69, 1914 (Hong Kong). — Pearson, Ceylon 

 Administr. Rep., 1915-1918, pp. F10-F14.- — Malpas, Ceylon Administr. 

 Rep., 1921, p. E5. 



Pseudosciaena aneus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 9, pi. (2)385, 

 fig. 2, 1877. 



Pseudosciaena anea Jordan and Seale, BuU. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. 25, 1906 

 (1907) (Cavite). — Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 

 p. 261, 1907 (1908) (Manila).— Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, 

 p. 280, 1910 (Sandakan, Borneo). 



Argyrosomus aneus Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, p. 64, 1918 (Philippines). 



Otolithus macrophthalmus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 1, p. 99, 

 1850 (type locality: Batavia; Bantam; Samarang; Pasuruan). 



Sciaena macrophthalmus GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 291, 1860 

 (compiled). — Karoli, Term^sz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, p. 159, 1881 

 (Palaboen) . 



Corvina macrophthalmus Bleeker, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, 

 vol. 2, p. 292, 1868 (Bintang). 



Pseudosciaena macrophthalmus Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, 

 vol. 14, No. 4, p. 21, 1874 (Singapore, Bintang, Banka, Java, Celebes). 



Corvina sina (not Cuvier) Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 2-4, p. 58, 

 pi. 24, fig. 2, 1853. 



? Johnius resplendens Hombron and Jacquinot, Voy. Pole Sud, Zool., vol. 3, 

 p. 45, pi. 5, fig. 1, 1853 (no locality). 



Otolithus leuciscus Gxjnther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 10, p. 398, 1872 

 (type locality: Manila Bay, Philippines). — Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. 



