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Scales 55 to 60 along above lateral line to caudal base, 50 to 55 

 along below; 7 above, 18 below; scales cycloid on head, elsewhere 

 ctenoid; fine scales cov^er bases of soft dorsal and anal and whole of 

 caudal with age. 



D. IX or X, I, 24 or 25, third spine 1% in head, first ray 2%; A. II, 

 7, second spine 2}^; caudal 1%, rounded in young, cuneate with age; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 3%; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



SUvery, with Kght streak along each row of scales. Young with 

 dark bluish mark on opercles, less distinct with age. Young with 

 black interspinous dorsal membranes, but only as black outer edge with 

 age. Second dorsal stained gray at upper third. (Day.) 



India, China, Queensland. Also reported from the PhUippines by 

 Elera. According to Day it reaches 945 mm. 



JOHNIUS BORNEENSIS (Bleeker) 



Otolithus borneensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 1, p. 268, 1850 

 (type locality: Bandjermassing, in rivers, Borneo). 



Sciaena borneensis Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 294, 1860 (com- 

 piled). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 501, 1895 (Samar). 



Pseudosciaena borneensis Bleeker, Verb. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, 

 No. 4, p. 36, 1874 (Borneo); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 9, pi. (2) 385, 

 fig. 4, 1877. 



Johnius borneensis Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, p. 279, 1910 (Sanda- 

 kan, Borneo). 



Depth 3K; head 3, width 2. Snout 4 in head; eye 4, equals snout 

 or interorbital; maxillary nearly reaches opposite hind eye edge, 

 length 2 in head; band of fine upper teeth with outer row little en- 

 larged, all lower teeth uniformly smaller; interorbital 4, little convex; 

 hind preopercle edge denticulate. 



Scales 45 along above lateral line to caudal base, 40 along below; 

 6 above (7 below on figure; 6 rows on cheek; soft vertical fins largely 

 scaly over basal half of each). 



D. X, I, 28 or 29 (figure shows 26, i, second spine 1% in head, first 

 ray 3%; A. II, 8, i, second spine 3, fourth ray 2%; caudal Iji, cuneate, 

 with broad median point behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 3%; pectoral IK; ventral 2%). 



Above bluish or greenish gray, sides and below silvery. Iris yellov/. 

 Fins yellowish. Length, 92 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Borneo. Recorded from Samar by Elera. Bleeker had but one 

 specimen. 



JOHNIUS OSSEUS (Day) 



Sciaena osseus Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 193, pi. 46, fig. 3, 1876 (type locality: 

 Malabar coast of India); Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 123, 1889. 



Bola ossea Jordan and St arks, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 11, Nos. 3, 4, p. 453, 

 1917 (Ceylon). 



Johnius cantori (not Bleeker) Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1931, p. 447 (Singapore). 

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