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jaw; interorbital 6 in head, narrow, convex; preopercle finely crenu- 

 late, with few small widely separated spines at angle. Gill rakers 

 6+ 10, and some rudiments, short, slender, % of eye. 



Scales 82 along above lateral line to caudal base (figure shows 51 

 tubular scales in lateral line to caudal peduncle); 11 above, 19 below; 

 soft dorsal finely scaled basally, also basal Ji of caudal. 



D. X, I, 31, third spine 1% in head, fifteenth ray 2%; A. II, 7, 

 second spine strong, 2 in head, subequal with first ray; caudal 1%, 

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



Silvery, darkest above, sides and belly deeply washed with gold, 

 also ventral base, preopercle edge and exposed maxillary. Spinous 

 dorsal dark edged, interspinous membrane powdered rufous brown. 

 Powdering of soft dorsal and caudal confined to stripe along each ray. 

 Length, 211 mm. (Ogilby.) 



Northern AustraUa. 



JOHNIUS BELENGERU (Cuvier) 



Corvina belengerii Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 120, 1830 (type locality: 

 Malabar) . 



Corvina belangerii Valenciennes, Voy. Ind. Orient. Belanger, Zool., p. 357, 1834 

 (East Indies) .—GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 303, 1860 (Sea of 

 Pinang). — Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 54, 1865. — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., 

 vol. 1, p. 502, 1895 (Luzon, Santa Cruz, Cavite). 



Corvina belengeri Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 684 (Andamans) . 



Corvina belangeri Borodin, Bull. Vanderbilt Marine Mus., vol. 1, art. 2, p. 53, 

 1930 (Saigon River, India). 



Sciaena {Corvina) belangeri Steindachner, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 16, 

 p. 771, 1866 (Calcutta). 



Sciaena belengeri Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 191, pi. 44, fig. 5, 1876 (India, 

 Bombay). — Johnstone, Fasc. Malayensis, Annandale and Robinson, Zool., 

 vol. 2, p. 293, 1903 (Patani and Jhering coasts) . — Weber, Nova Guinea, vol. 9, 

 pt. 3, p. 588, 1913 (Lorentz River, Varen River, Sermowai River). — Bar- 

 nard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 572, 1927 (Natal coast). 



Sciaena belangeri Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 2, p. 120, 1889. — Regan, Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. London, vol. 20, pt. 6, p. 276, 1914 (Mimika River, New Guinea).— 

 Hardenberg, Treubia, vol. 13, livr. 1, p. 131, 1931 (Rokan mouth, Sumatra). 



Sciaena belangerii Norman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 9, p. 321, 1922 

 (Natal). 



Johnius belengeri Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, p. 1047, 1849 

 (1850) (Pinang, Malayan Peninsula, Singapore). — Bleeker, Nederland. 

 Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, p. 118, 1873 (China) ; Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amster- 

 dam, vol. 14, No. 4, p. 46, 1874 (Sumatra, Nias, Pinang, Singapore, Banka, 

 Java, Borneo, Philippines); Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 9, pi. (4)387, 

 fig. 1, 1877. 



Johnius belangeri Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 133, 1865 (Java; Manila). — 

 Fowler, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 32, No. 2, p. 260, 1927 (Bom- 

 bay) ; Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 235, 1928 (on Day). 



Corvina kuhlii Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 121, 1830 (type locality: 

 Labouane River, Java). 



