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depth of caudal peduncle 3K to 3%; pectoral 1% to Iji; ventral 1% 

 to 1%. 



Back drab-gray, with deep soiled appearance, under surface white. 

 Iris pale or yellowish white. Lateral line embraced with pale median 

 streak or narrow band its whole length. Spinous dorsal slate-gray to 

 blackish terminally. Soft dorsal and caudal brownish, other fins pale, 

 soiled or brownish. 



India, Ceylon, Pinang, Cochin China, China. Known by the pale 

 band containing lateral hne its entire course, obtuse snout and uniform 

 villiform mandibular teeth. 



Two examples, A.N. S. P. Bombay. Bombay Natural History Society. Length, 



150 to 230 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. Nos. 52862, 52863. Hong Kong. Henry W. Fowler. Length, 171 



to 230 mm. 



JOHNIUS ALBIFLORA (Richardson) 



Corvina ? albiflora Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 226, 1846 (type locality: 

 Canton). 



Sciaena albiflora Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 12, p. 378, 1873 

 (Cheefoo). — Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 15, p. 20, 1905 

 (Inland Sea of Japan). — Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 39, p. 249, fig. 2, 1911 (Port Arthur, Manchuria). — Jordan and Metz, 

 Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 1, p. 36, fig. 27, 1913 (Port Arthur, Fusan, 

 Chinnampo, Korea). — Izuka and Matsuura, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus., 

 Vertebr., p. 147, 1920 (Takamatsu). — Sowerby, Naturalist in Manchuria, 

 vol. 4, p. 187, 1930 (Pe tai Ho, Chin wang Tao, Dalny, Antung, Tientsin). 



Sciaena (Corvina) albiflora Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.- 

 nat. Ivl., vol. 59, pt. 1, p. 361, 1892 (Shanghai). 



Nibea albiflora Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, No. 2, p. 243, 

 1925 (Fukuoka). 



Pagrus macrocephalus Basilewsky, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, 

 p. 222, pi. 3, fig. 1, 1855 (type locality: Gulf of Pechili and Oriental Sea, 

 Peking) . 



Sciaena ten-lo Basilewsky, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, p. 220, pi. 1, 

 fig. 3, 1855 (type locality: Gulf of Pechili, Peking). 



Corvina macrophthalmus Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, p. 117, 

 1873 (China). 



Depth 3% to 3K; head 2% to 3K, width 2 to 2%. Snout 3% to 4 in 

 head; eye 3% to 5%, equals snout in young to IK with age, equals 

 interorbital in young to Iji with age; maxillary reaches % in eye in 

 young to jo with age, expansion 1% to 2 in eye, length 2% to 2}^ in head; 

 mouth partly inferior, 5 pores at chin; rather narrow bands of vilU- 

 form teeth in jaws, outer upper row and inner lower row enlarged, 

 former slightly canine like anteriorly; interorbital 3% to 4Ko, broadly 

 convex; preopercle edge finely denticulate, denticles at angle largest. 

 Gill rakers 8 + 13, lanceolate equal gill filaments or ji eye; 2 upper and 

 4 lower gill rakers rudimentary. 



Scales 47 to 53 in lateral Hne to caudal base and 15 to 23 more out 

 over caudal fin; 9 or 10 above, 10 to 12 below, 30 predorsal forward 

 to occiput and 18 to 20 more forward to snout end; 13 principal rows 



