TELEOSTEI. ACANTHOPTERTGUI. 



to soft dorsal. Ventral black. Caudal yellow, with a black tip 

 and white outer edge. In an adult the sinuous black bands are 

 more numerous, apparently being the outer edges of the wider 

 bauds seen in the younger fish. 



Fig. 48. Umbrina sinuata. 



Hob. Karachi ; a specimen, about 17 inches long, from Muscat 

 is in the British Museum. 



861. (3.) UmMna dussumieri. 



Umbrina dussumieri, Cuv. $ Val. II. N. Pom. ix, p. 481 ; Day, Fish. 



India, p. 183, pi. xliii, figs. 2, 3 (see synon.). 

 Taru kattelee, Tarn. 



D.10 | 1-2/24-27. A.2/7-8. L.r.58-64/52/55. L.tr.6/17. C.p.7-9. 

 Length of head 4 to 4|, height of body 4| to 4| in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter 3^ to 3| in length of head, 1| diam. 

 apart and from end of snout. Snout obtuse, it and the cheeks 

 inflated ; cleft of mouth nearly horizontal. Distance between the 

 eye and the upper maxillary bone equals one diameter of the orbit. 

 Preopercle crenulated (scarcely denticulated) in its whole extent, 

 its angle rounded ; two opercular spines. Central barbel below 

 the chin about half a diameter of the eye in length ; a deep pore 

 exists on either side of its base ; pores on snout generic. Fins 

 dorsal spines weak, the first short, the two next longest and three 

 times as long as the rays. Second anal spine rather above half 

 the height of the first ray. Caudal wedge-shaped in the young, 

 more obtuse in the adult. Colour usually dark brown or coppery, 

 often nearly black and shot with golden, lightest along the abdomen. 

 Fins reddish brown, first dorsal stained black ; other fins with grey 

 edges ; ventrals yellow. 



Hdb. Seas of India to China ; attaining at least 8 or 9 inches in 

 length. 



862. (4.) Umbrina russellii. 



Umbrina nissellii, Cuv. $ Val. H. N. Poiss. v, p. 178; Day, Fish. 



India, p. 183, pi. xliii, fig. 4 (see synon.). 

 Qualar-katchtlee, Tel. 

 D. 10 | 1/24-27. A. 2/7. L. r. 52/44/4 2. L.tr. 6/5. Oec. pyl. 7. 



