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Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 



[Oct. 



than the preceding, the eighth and ninth bipartite, the tenth pair is 

 undivided, pointed. Also this species occurs singly at Pinang. 



The two preceding species not only closely resemble each other, but 

 also a third: Johnius coitor, (Buchanan Hamilton.*) Their external 

 distinguishing characters will appear from the following table. 



Length of the head . . 

 Depth at occiput .... 



Diameter of the eye . . 



Distance from the muz- 

 zle to the eye 



Depth in front of dor- 

 sal fin 



Length of the posterior 

 anal spine 



Johnius dussu- 

 mieri. 



4i in total length 

 f of the length of 



the head. 

 J of do. 

 equal the diameter 



of eye. 



5£ in total length, 

 slightly exceeding 

 § of first anal ray. 



Johnius belengeri, 



Johnius coitor 



£ of total length. 



-i^ of the length of 

 the head. 



3| in do. 



i less than the di- 

 ameter. 



i of total length. 



^ of the first ray 

 but slenderer 

 than in coitor. 



\ of total length. 



| of the length of 

 the head. 



5| in do. 



exceeding the dia- 

 meter by \ 



i of total 

 £ of the first anal 

 ray. 



Johnius carutta, Bloch. 

 Johnius carutta, Bl. PI. 356. 

 Corvina carutta, Cuv. and Val. V. 124. 

 Head above and back dark brown claret colour, lighter, silvery on 

 the cheeks, opercles, sides and abdomen ; the scales minutely dotted 

 with black, and their margins of a darker brown than the ground co- 

 lour ; fin-membranes pale whitish yellow, minutely dotted with black ; 

 the upper half of the spiny dorsal, from 2 d - to 7 th - spine, black ; the 

 soft dorsal with four equidistant, large, oblique black spots ; the mar- 

 ginal half of the caudal, anal and ventral fins blackish. Iris golden, 

 the orbital half bluish black. 



D 10—1/28, C \7j, A 2/8, V 1/5, P 18, Br. VII. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 



Malabar ; sea and rivers Tranquebar, Pondicherry. 



Total length : 6 inch. 



The length of the head is 4| in the total, the depth at the occiput 

 f of its length. The transversal diameter of the eye is } of the length 

 of the head, equal to its distance from the muzzle. The vertical dia- 

 meter in front of the dorsal fin, is little less than the length of the 



* Syn. Bola coitor, Buchan. Ham. 75, 368, PI. 27, Fig. 24. — Corvina coitor, 

 Cuvier and Valenciennes, V. 116. 



