FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 383 



Corvina lobata Cxjvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 122, pi. 107, 1830 (type local- 

 ity: Malabar). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 304, 1860 (com- 

 piled). — Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 55, 1865 (compiled). 



Johnius coitor (not Cuvier) Bleeker, Natuur Genecsk. Arch. Nederland. 

 Indie, vol. 2, p. 523, 1845 (Batavia). 



Depth 3% to 3K; head 3K to Z%, width 1% to 2. Snout 3K to 3K in 

 head; eye 3^5 to 4}^, 1)^ to IK in snout, equals interorbital; maxillary 

 reaches opposite eye center, expansion 2% in eye, length 3 to 3Ko in 

 head; chin with 5 pores; outer row of upper teeth slightly enlarged, 

 lower teeth uniform; interorbital 3% to Aji, broadly convex; preopercle 

 edge flexibly serrate. Gill rakers 4 + 9, short, lanceolate, half of gill 

 filaments, which 2% in eye. 



Scales 37 to 43 in lateral line to caudal base; 6 or 7 above, 8 or 9 

 below, 23 or 24 predorsal. Scales with 7 to 10 basal radiating striae; 

 31 to 37 apical denticles, with 2 or 3 transverse series of basal elements; 

 circuli fine. 



D. IX or X, 29, i, or 30 i, third spine 1% to 2 in head, first ray 2% 

 to 2%; A. II, 8, I or 9, i, second spine 2% to 2%, second ray IK to 1%] 

 caudal l,cuneate, ends in median point; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 S}i to 3)4; pectoral 1% to IK; ventral 1% to 1%, first raj ends in filament. 



Brown above, below whitish. Spinous dorsal, anal and ventral 

 more or less blackish terminally, other vertical fins dusky terminally. 

 Pectoral pale brown. Iris slate. 



Natal, India, Andamans, Malayan Peninsula, East Indies, Philip- 

 pines. 



A.N.S.P. Nos. 52983, 52984. Bombay, India. Prof. F. Hallberg. 1924. Pur- 

 chased. Length, 102 to 114 mm. 



JOHNIUS NOVAE-HOLLANDIAE (Steindachner) 



Sciaena (Corvina) novae-hoUandiae Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



math.-nat. KL, vol. 53, pt. 1, p. 445, pi. 5, fig. 2, 1866 (type locality: Port 



Jackson). 

 Sciaena novae-hollandiae Ogilbt, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 6, p. 79, pi. 23, 



1918 (types of Corvina comes and Pseudomycterus maccullochi) . 

 Johnius novae-hollandiae Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, 



No. 4, p. 41, 1874 (Sumatra; Borneo); Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 9, 



pi. (2)387, fig. 1, 1877. — Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Geneva, 



ser. 3, vol. 10, p. 576, 1926 (Sarawak). 

 Corvina comes de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, p. 538, 1885 



(type locality: Brisbane River, South Queensland). 

 Pseudomycterus maccullochi Ogilbt, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 21, p. 96, 



1908 (type locality: Logan River, South Queensland). 



Depth 3K; head 3K to 3K, width 1% to 1%. Snout 3% in head; eye 

 4% to 4l%, 1)^ in snout, Iji in interorbital; maxillary reaches ji in eye, 

 length 2% in head; teeth in narrow bands, villiform, outer upper row 

 enlarged; interorbital 3% in head, broadly convex; preopercle with 

 narrow crenulated membranous border. Gill rakers 5 + 10, short, 

 spinulose, % of eye. 



