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brown, under surfaces paler to whitish. Each row of scale 
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above level ofpgectoral on body with median dark-brown band, equally wide as 
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pale interspacbiS^-ranged from occiput to hind part of soft dorsal obliquely 
upward, those mostly eral line horizontal, likewise posteriorly above 
lateral line 
Iris whitish. 7? 
>rsals varied with white and brown, as several 
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dark spots along each ray or s|^| basally or subbaaally with terminal part of 
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fins more uniformly dark. Up.g^inner pectoral axil dark brown to dusky. Anal 
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India, Cocfe^^pina, Manchuria, Japan. Ihile not certain of the 
identification of 
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tese with the Indian species, I feel it best to fob 
low ochlegel unt : i3|~ JP seudotolithus mitsukurii J ordan and Snyder can be establish* 
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ed as a valid f^pecies* The alleged character of distinction by Jordan and 
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Thompson that|| : the anal spine is much larger" is hardly satisfactory. Concern¬ 
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except for the differences 
and Johnius albiflora Jordan and Thompson say: "in fact 
: streaks along the rows of scales there 
is little difference between the two spates". * 
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44893 TJ. 6. E.M. Jdspan. Government of Length 295 ? to 300 \ mm. 
stated in 1911 that n the specimens 
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