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Scales 55 to 58 along above lateral line to caudal base; tubes 46 to 

 48 in lateral line to caudal base; 7 scales above, 14 or 15 below; verti- 

 cal fins nearly scaly to tips. 



D. X, I, 28 or 29, second spine 1% in head, first ray 3; A. II, 7, 

 second spine 3 or 1% in postocular, second ray 2% in bead; caudal 1%, 

 rather broadly convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; 

 pectoral 1%; ventral Iji, first ray ends in short filament. 



Silvery, everywhere so clouded with brown dots as to quite obscure 

 ground color. Vertical fins darker than body, except dull blue base of 

 spinous dorsal. Length, 285 mm. (Ogilby.) 



New South Wales, Queensland. 



JOHNIUS CARUTTA Bloch 



Johnius carulta Bloch, Naturg. Ausland. Fische, pt. 7, p. 133, pi. 356, 1793 

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

 (Tranquebar) . — Cantor, Journ. Asiat. See. Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, p. 1048, 1849 

 (Pinang). — Bleeker, Verb. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, No. 4, 

 p. 48, 1874 (compiled). — Jordan and Seale, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci., 

 vol. 10, p. 11, 1905 (Hong Kong). — Jordan and Starks, Ann. Carnegie 

 Mus., vol. 11, Nos. 3, 4, p. 453, 1917 (Ceylon). — Fowler, Journ. Bombay 

 Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 30, No. 4, p. 10, 1926 (Bombay); Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1929 (1930), p. 596 (Shanghai), p. 611 (Hong Kong). 



Labrus carutta Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 447, 1802 (description in 

 key) . 



Corvina carutta Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 124, 1830 (Pondicherry; 

 Malabar).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 302, 1860 (Sea of 

 Pinang).— Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 51, 1865. — Karoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, 

 Budapest, vol. 5, p. 159, 1881 (Canton). 



Sciaena carutta Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 192, pi. 44, fig. 1, 1876 (Madras); 

 Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 122, 1889. — Tirant, Service Oc6anogr. 

 Pech. Indo-Chine, note 6, p. 169, 1929 (Cochin China). — Hardenberg, 

 Treubia, vol. 13, livr. 1, p. 133, 1931 (Rokan mouth, Sumatra). 



Corvina carouna Ctjvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 125, 1830 (type locality: 

 Malabar) . 



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

 head; eye 4% to 5%, 1% to 1^ in snout, Iji to 1% in interorbital ; maxil- 

 laiy reaches % in eye, length 2% to 3 in head; 5 pores on chin; teeth in 

 jaws in villiform bands, only upper outer row enlarged; interorbital 3K, 

 broadty convex; preopercle edge membranous. Gill rakers 4 + 9, 

 short low tubercles. 



Scales 50 or 51 along above lateral line to caudal base; tubular 

 scales 45 or 46 to caudal base and 4 or 5 more on latter; 6 or 7 scales 

 above, 10 below, 25 to 30 predorsal. Scales with 8 to 12 basal radiat- 

 ing striae; to 22 aj)ical denticles, with 8 transverse series of basal 

 elements; circuli very fine. 



D. XI, 26, 1, to 29, 1, third spine 2 in head, first ray 2% to 3%; A. II, 

 6, I or 7, I, second spine 3% to 3%, second ray 2% to 2%; caudal IK to 

 1%, obliquely convex behind, with lower median ray longest; least 



