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5078. Sandakan, Borneo. March 1, 1908. Length, 190 mm. 



11834. Sandakan. March 2, 1908. Length, 160 mm. 



11461, 11462. Kowloon market. September 8, 1908. Length, 123 to 128 mm. 



A1024. Buka Island, Celebes. November 20, 1909. Length, 153 mm. 



U.S.N. M. No. 32719. Indian Archipelago. Royal Museum, Leiden. Length, 



170 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 56100. San Fabian, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (3709). 



Length, 190 mm. As Johnius belengeri. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72687. Java. Bryant and Palmier. Length, 155 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72688. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length, 68 mm. 

 One example, A.N.S.P. Bombay, India. Bombay Natural History Society. 



Length, 182 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 47595. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 47650. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 



Length 178 mm. As Argijrosomus goldmani. 

 Two examples, A.N.S.P. Singapore. April 2, 1931. Department Fisheries, 



Singapore. Length, 167 to 172 mm. 



JOHNIUS COIBOR (Buchanan-Hamilton) 



Bola coibor Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 78, 368, 1822 (type 



localitj': Larger Ganges estuaries). 

 Sciaena coibor Chaudhuri, Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 5, p. 724, 1923 (Chilka Lake). 

 Corvina albida Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 93, 1830 (type locality: 



Pondicherry, Mahe, Malabar). — Valenciennes, Voy. Ind. Orient. Belanger, 



Zool., p. 355, 1834 (Mahe, Coromandel, Pondicherry). — GtJNTHER, Cat. 



Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 304, 1860 (China) .—Day, Fishes of Malabar, 



p. 54, 1865. — Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 3, p. 47, 



1878 (Northern Australia). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 



vol. 5, p. 521, 1881 (Norman River). 

 Corvina olvida Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 602, 1895 (Luzon; Manila). 



(Error.) 

 Pseudosciaena albida Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 1, p. 145, 1863 



(Amoy); vol. 2, p. 56, 1865 (Amoy). 

 Sciaena albida Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 188, pi. 44, figs. 4-6, 1876 (Calcutta) ; 



Fauna Brit, India, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 117, 1889. — Zttgmayer, Abh. Bayer. Akad. 



Wiss., math.-phys. Kl., vol. 26, pt. 6, p. 12, 1913 (Mekran). — Ogilby, Mem. 



Queensland Mus., vol. 6, p. 85, 1918 (compiled). — Malpas, Ceylon Ad- 



ministr. Rep., 1921, p. E8. — Hardenberg, Treubia, vol. 13, livr. 1, p. 131, 



1931 (Rokan mouth, Sumatra). 

 Johnius anei (not Bloch) Blyth, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 29, p. 141, 1860 



(Sitang River). 

 Corvina neilli Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 54, 1865 (type locality: Cochin, 



Malabar) . 



Depth ^){ to 3K; head Z)i. Snout 4 in head; eye 4 to 7, 1 to l){ in 

 snout; maxillary reaches ^i or to hind eye edge, length 2X to 2% in 

 head; jaws equal or upper slightly longer; mouth cleft slightly oblique; 

 3 pores across knob below mandibular symphysis beyond base of which 

 large open pore and 2 more on side of either ramus; short barbel 

 between central pore and anterior lateral one and very minute one at 

 posterior pore; teeth in villiform bands, outer upper row and lower 

 inner row enlarged ; interorbital low ; preopercle edge serrate in young, 

 entire with age. 



