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D. XI, 27, I to 32, I, second spine 1% to 1% in head, third ray 

 2% to 2K; A. II, 7, I, second spine 2Ko to 3%, first ray 1}^ to 1%; caudal 

 1 to IK, cuneate, rounded behind, lower median rays longest; pectoral 

 IK to 1)^; ventral 1% to 1%, first ray ends in short filament. 



Mauve-brown above or back vinaceous-buff to buff below, under 

 surface whitish. Iris pale to slate. Inside gill opening neutral 

 dusky. Opercle neutral or slate-brown. Spinous dorsal dusky or 

 neutral dusky terminally. Soft dorsal and caudal grayish, otherfins 

 whitish. Sometimes vertical fins all more or less dusky to dusky gray 

 terminally. Paired fins pale, sometimes sprinkled with dark dots. 

 Pectoral with gray blotch within axil close behind origin of fin. 



India, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Indo-China. According to Day 

 it attains a large size. Known chiefly by its pale yellowish gray color. 



Three examples, A.N.S.P. Bombay. Bombay Natural History Society. 1925. 



Length, 173 to 203 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. Nos. 52986 to 52989. Bombay. Prof. F. Hallberg. 1923. Length, 70 



to 114 mm. 

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



2, 1931. Length 175 to 177 mm. 



JOHNIUS JUBATUS (Bleeker) 



Corvina jubata Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 8, p. 160, 1855 



(type locality: Bandjermasin, in rivers, Borneo). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. 



Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 305, 1860 (compiled). — Duncker, Mitt. Naturh. Mus. 



Hamburg, vol. 21, p. 154, 1903 (1904) (Bandar Maharani). 

 Johnius jubaius Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, No. 4, 



p. 52, 1874 (Sumatra; Borneo); Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 9, pi. 



(4) 387, fig. 5, 1877. 



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

 eye 3% to 4^, IK in snout, IK to 1}^ in interorbital; maxillary reaches 

 opposite eye center, length 3 in head; teeth villiform above, outer 

 row but slightly longer, lower subequal; interorbital convex; pre- 

 opercle edge entire (at least in figure). 



Scales 60 along above lateral line, 30 along below; 11 above (9 

 above anal origin on figure, 38 predorsal to front of snout tip). 

 Scales cycloid except on front above and abdomen where strongly 

 ciliated; soft vertical fins finely scaled over greater portions basally. 



D. X, I, 22 to 25, fourth and fifth spines subequally longest or 3 

 in head, first ray 3%, fourteenth ray 2%; A. II, 8 or 9, second spine 

 4}^, or 2% in postocular; caudal 1% in head, cuneate, ends rather 

 broadly in median point behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; 

 pectoral 1%; ventral 2%. 



Above bluish or greenish gray, sides and below silvery. Iris yel- 

 lowish, above brownish. Opercle with diffuse bluish blotch above. 

 Fins yellow. Spinous dorsal margined with dusky. Anal and ven- 

 tral broadly bordered white below. Length, 175 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Only known from Sumatra, Malayan Peninsula, and Borneo. 

 Bleeker calls attention to the scales on the front and abdomen, not 



