674 
vv, 
J 0 \\ 0 ' N 
. f t I I ' . 
^ 4 / o y 
/ u i 
Depth u /gj 3 /. tc 0 / 2 , width 1 /g to l'V.. Snout 3 /, 
head; eye 4^/^ to 4 ^/ 5 , U, 
4 MVJ ^ / z» "■‘■wuxi j. / 5 i/o j. /^_. Snout 3 /4 in 
J. 
2 ou *± / 5 , snout, 1 1 /. in interorbital; maxillary reaches 
V 2 in ®y e > length 2 V 4 in head'^Kgih in narrow bands, villiform, outer upper 
^§S§gfes 
row enlarged; ir.terorbital 3/2 in hei^p;^ br*oadly convex; preopercle with narrcv\| 
crenulated membranous border. Gill rak®gs 54-10, short, spinulose, V of 
'life \ * 0 
eye 
v__ 
Scales 55 to 58 along above Jpteral line to caudal basel tubes 46 
jK 
1 r,-l 
* uPd 
/ 
to 48 in lateral line to caudal baseg^V above, 14 or 15 below; vertical fins 
nearly scaly to tips. 
4 gr n 
D. n 28 on 29, sJSond spine IV 5 in head, first ray 3; A. II, 7, 
second spine 3 or 1 V 5 in gp/tocular, second ray 2 V 5 in head; caudal l Z /$, 
JS3T A 
rather broadly convex b|jpfnd; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 V 5 ; pectoral 
m. 
■M' 
5' 
ventral 1 /$, £0fst ray ends in short filament# 
Silvery, everywhere so clouded with brown dots as to quite obscure 
ground color. Vertical fins darker than body, except dull blue base of spinous 
;, r:i • 
dorsal. Length t 285 isim* (Ogilby.) 
.v . 
New South Wales ^ Queensland# 
'•'W r 
u 
Johnius car$tta Bloch 
•• 4S| : > 4 
l 
u 
_ irV9-2k» 
^ \ 
356 3a (^ranquebaj/. - SCHPEIDLR, Systj^lchth. Bloch, 1801, p. 74/(Tran- 
quebar). - CAUTQR, Journ. Asiat,.J&o<L Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, 1849. p. 
M <? n " *_ ■=> M / i ^ 
* ) 48? / 
1048 (Pinang). - _BLEEKER, Verjft. Kon. Akad. ”%t, Amsterdam, ser. 3, vol. 
14, 1874,vp. 48 (compil 
/ 
- JOltDAK and SHALE, Proc. Davenport Acad. 
/)\A "V 1 
Sci., vol. 10, >1905, p. -|ll (Hong Kong). - JQRDAH and STAiOH^Rnn. Carne. 
gie Mus., vol. 11, Dos. ; : ;?-4, Sim— 6 »( 1917, p. 
._ „ .. . :r. . 
453. 
. - FOWLER, 
1926, \ 
lli°{Uontior.Si SOi ' PhU “ U1 «*“- W 2 f l93 °)« P’ 696 (ShonEhal), p. 
