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i^Depth 3}^ to Z%; head 3)^ to 3%, width 1% to 2%. Snout S% to 3K 

 in head from snout tip; eye 4K to 5, 1% to IK in snout, 1% to 1% in 

 interorbital; maxillary reaches K in eye, expansion 1% to IK in eye, 

 length 2 to 2% in head from snout tip; mouth terminal, mandible 

 slightly protruding; 2 pairs of pores at chin, hind pair larger; rather 

 narrow bands of villiform teeth in jaws, outer upper rows as canines 

 with 4 at least partly exposed with closed jaws and inner row of 

 mandible distinctly enlarged; interorbital 3% to 4 broadly convex; 

 suborbital depth IK to 2 in eye; flexible preopercle edge with numer- 

 ous slender weak spinules, usually liidden by scales. Gill rakers 6 + 14 

 or 15, lanceolate, little greater than gill filaments or ji of eye; 1 to 3 

 above and 3 to 5 below of gill rakers usually rudimentary. 



Scales 49 or 50 in lateral line to caudal base and 15 ? more out 

 over caudal fin; 6 above, 9 below, 12 predorsal forward to occiput 

 and 26 more forward to front end of snout; 11 rows of large scales 

 across cheek; caudal and anal scaly basally, dorsals naked. Scales 

 with 21 or 22 basal radiating striae; 23 to 48 weak short apical den- 

 ticles with 10 to 19 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. X or XI, I, 26, i to 28, i, fourth spine 2% to 2^ in total head 

 length, first ray 3% to 3%; A. II, 7, i, second spine 4K to 6, first ray 

 2% to 3K; caudal IK to 1%, cuneate; least depth of caudal peduncle 

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



Back brown, sides and below silvery white. Iris white. Spinous 

 dorsal with membranes brown to dusky. Soft dorsal and caudal 

 pale brownish, other fins whitish. 



India, China, Formosa, Korea, Japan. This species greatly 

 resembles Bleeker's figure of Pseudosciaena aeneus, which shows but 

 23 soft dorsal rays and the entire preopercle edge denticulate. The 

 nominal Sciaena nibe Jordan and Thompson does not seem to me to 

 differ. 



U.S.N.M. No. 22543. Japan. Japanese Government. Length, 265 mm. As 



Corvina sina. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 44892. Japan. Japanese Government. Length, 325 mm. As 



Corvina sina. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 57595. Japan. P. L. Jouy. Length, 188 mm. As Corvina 



schlegeli. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 59728. Kochi, Japan. Dr. H. M. Smith. Length, 146 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 67331. Wakanoura, Japan. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 380 



mm. Type of Sciaena nibe. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 75438. Nagasaki. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 200 to 220 mm. 



Two examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 75439. Tokyo. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 175 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 75440. Inomichi. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 99 to 140 mm. 



Three examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 75441. Kawatana. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 205 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 75922. Japan? P. L. Jouy. Length, 300 mm. 



