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132. Sciaena schlegeli Bleeker. "Kuchi." 

 Chinnampo (No. 4259a), Fusan market. 



This may be the Scicena chanchua or yellow fish ("piscis flavus pictus") of 

 Basilewsky, I chthy agraphia Chinee Borealis, p. 221. The description is however 

 very inadequate, and might refer to Scicena manchurica. 



133. Sciaena iharae sp. nov. (Plate VII, fig. 2.) "Guchi." 

 Type No. 4371, 300 mm. Fusan, Korea. 



Head 3; depth 3.25; eye 6 in head; 1.66 in snout; interorbital 3.5 in head; 

 maxillary 2.33. Dorsal X, 29; anal II, 7; scales 8, 50, 12 or 13 (above ventrals); 

 gill-rakers 7 + 9, comparatively short and stout; longest one .4 diameter of eye. 



Body compressed, its width 2 in depth, elongate, deepest through base of 

 pectorals; lower outline only slightly curved; head rather long; snout not 

 abruptly blunted, its outline continuing to the even curve of profile of head 

 above; lower jaw included; maxillary reaching posterior fourth of eye; teeth in 

 two rows, the outer conical, sharp, and slender, the inner minute; angular bone 

 of lower jaw notched posteriorly and projecting mesially, on this projection a 

 slender, deciduous spine, which is hinged below and depressible into a groove at 

 base; preopercle unarmed, its margin finely notched; opercle with two, flat, 

 flexible points. Scales large, ctenoid, firm, covering body and head, except lips; 

 no scales on vertical fins, but soft dorsal and anal sheathed with a row at base. 



Pectorals long, narrow, pointed, 1.4 in head; ventrals inserted below axil of 

 pectoral, reaching about two-thirds distance to vent; spinous dorsal rather 

 short and high, its base 1.8 in soft dorsal; fourth spine 2.75 in head; soft dorsal 

 uniform, about .8 height of first dorsal; caudal rounded; anal short, rounded, 

 higher than spinous dorsal. 



Color silvery below, brownish above; dorsal edged with dusky; a con- 

 spicuous black blotch on opercle; centers of scales dark, forming indistinct 

 longitudinal bands, irregularly broken above and below. 



Described from the type 300 mm. long, collected by Dr. Jordan at Fusan, 

 Korea (No. 4371a). It is named for Mr. B. Ihara, the Commissioner of 

 Fisheries in Chosen. 



This species resembles Scicena schlegeli (Bleeker), but has firmer fiesh, with 

 non-deciduous scales, has a longer, less blunt snout, a much smaller eye, (6 in 

 head instead of 4), and has 29 instead of 25 to 27 rays in the soft dorsal. 

 Basilewsky 's Scimna arcuata, Ichthijographki China; Borealis, p. 221, salted for the 

 market of Peking and sent up from southern China, is some species of this type. 

 It cannot be Sciwna iharce, as it is said to have 11 or 12 dorsal spines. 



