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D, X, I, 27 to 30, I, third spine 2 to 2% in head, first ray 3 to 3}^; 

 A. II, 7, I, second spine Sji to 3%, third ray 2 to 2%; caudal 1% to 

 1%, rounded behind with lower median rays longest; least depth 3 to 

 3%; pectoral 1^ to IK; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Drab-gray on back and sides, below white. Opercle neutral to 

 slate-gray, diffuse marginally. Iris pale. Spinous dorsal slate-gray. 

 Soft dorsal and caudal pale brown, dusted with neutral gray mar- 

 ginally. Pectoral and anal soiled whitish. Slate-gray blotch in 

 pectoral axil just behind fin origin. Ventral whitish. 



Arabia, Portuguese East Africa, South Africa, Mekran, Oman, 

 India, East Indies, Philippines, China, Japan. I fail to find char- 

 acters to maintain Otolithus vogleri Bleeker as a distinct species. 



3652 (D. 5442). San Fernando Point Light, N. 39°, E. 8.4 miles (lat. 16° 30' 36" 



N., long. 120° 11' 6" E.). May 11, 1909. Length, 205 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. Nos. 53001, 53002. Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa. July, 1923. 



H. W. Bell Marley. Length, 100 to 175 mm. As Johnius parvus. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 53024. Natal coast. 1925. H. W. Bell Marley. Length, 237 



mm. This and next two as Johnius vogleri. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 53051. Natal coast. 1927. H. W. Bell Marley. Length, 155 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 53073. Natal. 1925. H. W. Bell Marley. Length, 170 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. Nos. 63125 to 53127. Bombay, India. 1924. Prof. F. Hallberg. 



Purchased. Length, 122 to 210 mm. 

 Two examples, A.N.S.P. Singapore. Department Fisheries, Singapore. 1931. 



Length, 158 to 165 mm. 



JOHNIUS CUJUS (Buchanan-Hamilton) 



Bola cujus Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 81, 369, pi. 12, fig. 27, 



1822 (type locality: Ganges estuaries). 

 Corvina cuj a CvYiER, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 96, 1830 (copied). — Schlegel, 



Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 2-4, p. 58, 1843 (no locality). — Blyth, Journ. 



Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 29, p. 141, 1860 (Sitang River). — Gxjnther, Cat. 



Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 300, 1860 (Calcutta). 

 Sciaena cuja Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 187, 1876 (estuaries of Ganges); 



Fauna Brit. India, vol. 2, p. 115, 1889. — Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. 



Japon., vol. 3, p. 81, 1901 (India; Japan). — Tirant, Service Oc^anogr., 



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

 ? Johnius serratus Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 76, 1801 (type locality: 



Tranquebar) . 

 Sciaenoides asper Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 29, p. 140, 1860 (tj^pe 



locality: Sitang River). 

 Pseudotolithus mitsukurii Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 



p. 356, pi. 13, 1901 (type locality: Bay of Tokyo); Annot. Zool. Japon. 



vol. 3, p. 81, 1901 (Yokohama) .—Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 31, p. 478, 1906 (Kochi). 

 Pseudosciaena mitsukurii Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 



p. 520, 1906 (Port Arthur, Manchuria). — Franz, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss.. 



vol. 4, suppl. vol. 1, p. 45, 1910 (Yokohama). 

 Sciaena mitsukurii Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 39, 



p. 246, fig. 1, 1911 (Tokyo, Awa, Matsushima, Wakanoura). — Snyder, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 416, 1912 (Tokyo). — Jordan and Thompson, 



Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 4, p. 258, pi. 42, fig. 1, 1914 (Sendai).— 



Tanaka, Fishes of Japan, vol. 10, p. 177, pi. 48, fig. 187, pi. 49, fig. 189- 



