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below paler or whitish, with silvery white reflections. On 
back above lateral 
-m?ny dark waved streaks, more or less oblique, but 
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variably broken and irregul^ often leaving pale or immaculate area, frequent- 
ly appearing as pale band parallel with lateral line. Below lateral line down 
till level with pectoral dark 3f|'nes all more or less oblique. Iris whitish. 
Spinous dorsal blackish, basa|j|r whitish. Soft dorsal whitish basal ly, with 
black blotch at base of eachfbay and fin subterminally dusky. Caudal brown. 
dusky terminally. Other fins all pale brownish, few dusky obscure blotches on 
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front of soft anal. 
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China, Korea.-, Japan 
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76063 TJ/S.S.M. \Shanihai, China. June 1927. A. de C. Sowerby. Length 216 
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to 238 mm. 
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^ , 85872 U. S.N.M t h j^Chind^^A. de C. Sowerby. Length 58 to 158 mm. 26 examples. 
These small specimen 
the back have faded or are inco^^Lpus. In the very small ones there 
are 5 or 6 obscure large blotches alonfllthe back, chiefly above the lat- 
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eral line and as the fish grow larger tSese break up into spots or ir- 
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regular short streaks, so that the la^Sst approach the pattern of 
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Sciaena mitsukurii. All have the spihous dorsal blackish terminally, 
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the soft dorsal pale basal ly with n&ubbasal row of dark spots and then 
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terminal half of fin dark. 
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86359 UTS, h.M.-^China. A. de C. Sowerby. Length 107 mm, 
87022 U. S.L.'M. ; t* oochow. A. d.^C. Sowerby. Length^ mm 
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87060 U. S.K.M. -jF’oochow. A de1|, Sowerby. Length 67 mm. 
97063 U.S.h.M. ; Shanghai. June. 192?^^*.;^^^^^^“. w length ^63 to 250 mm, 
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13 examples. 
