280 SEALE. 



Johnius vogleri Bleeker. 



Color dull 3'ello\visli with slight silvery reflections; centers of rows of 

 scales darker; a slight wash of grayish on sjsinous dorsal. No. 2445; 

 length, 190 millimeters. 



A food-fish of considerable importance in Borneo; not recorded from 

 the Philippines. 



Pseudosciaena anea (Bloch). 



Color silvery; fins yellowish-white; jaws almost equal, teeth strong. 



Head 3.8o; depth 3; eye 4.25 in head; dorsal X-I, 24; anal II, 7; 

 scales about 43; rather strong, curved teeth in each jaw; upper jaw with 

 an inner row of small teeth, none on vomer, palatine, or tongue. No. 

 2452; length, 105 millimeters; No. 2512; length, 135 millimeters. 



A common food-fish of Borneo ; also recorded from the Philippines. 



Otolith us dolorosus Seale, sp. nov. Plate III. 



Head 3.'i5; depth 5; scales 54 in lateral line, 11 between lateral line 

 and base of anal, 11 between origin of dorsal and lateral line; dorsal XI, 

 25; anal II, 7; eye 6.20; snout 4.15; interorbital 5; maxillary 2.50; its 

 posterior margin ending under anterior margin of pupil; cheeks and 

 opercles scaled, the opercle with a single flat spine; jaws with small 

 sharp teeth in two or more rows, the outer row slightly enlarged with 

 about 4 enlarged curved canines anteriorly on each jaw; no teeth on 

 vomer, palatine, or tongue; gill rakers rather strong, not very sharp, the 

 longest about equal to^ diameter of pupil, about 14 on lower arch. 



Body oblong, slightly compressed; lower jaw projecting; length of 

 caudal peduncle (measured to a line with posterior acsil of anal) greater 

 than depth of body, and almost equal to head ; depth of caudal peduncle 

 3 in its length; longest dorsal ray 1.75 in head; the two dorsals not 

 separated; origin of anal midway between base of caudal and axil of 

 ventrals, under the _ seventh dorsal ray. First anal spine minute, the 

 second about two-thirds the length of second anal ray; the origin of the 

 ventral considerably nearer the tip of lower jaw than to origin of anal ; 

 length of ventrals about 1.40 in. head; pectorals 1.30 in head; caudal 

 1.15 in head; scales of body in oblique rows, those of lateral line enlarged, 

 arborescent. 



Color uniform silverj', with more or less distinct narrow black lines 

 following the rows of scales above the lateral line, tip of dorsal and 

 caudal duslry; axil of pectorals duslry. 



This species somewhat resembles 0. argenteus (Kulil and Van 

 Hasselt), but has much smaller teeth and the location of the fins is 

 decidedly difEerent, the origin of anal being much nearer the base of 

 caudal in 0. argenteus. 



Type, No. 2485 in the collection of the Bureau of Science, from San- 

 dakan, Borneo. Length, 300 millimeters. 



