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Family Pristipomatido:. 

 20. — Therapon theraps. 

 Cuv. and Val. 3, p. 129, pi. 53 ; Bleek. Perc. p. 50 ; Rich. Ann. 

 and mag. Nat. Hist., 1842, vol. 9, p. 126; Rtipp, Neue, Wirb. 

 Fische, p. 95. 



Found abundantly from Palm Islands to Flinders' Island. 



21. — Therapon servus. 



Sciama jarbua, Forsk. descr. Anim,. p. 50 ; Shaw, Zool. 4, p. 541. 



Holocentrus servus, Block, t. 238, f. 1. 

 „ jarbua, Lacep., pp. 348-355. 



Grammistes servus, Bl. Schn., p. 185. 



Therapon Timoriensis, Quoy and Gaim., Voy. Freyc, Poiss., 

 p. 341. 



Therapon servus, Cuv. and Val. 3, p. 125, and 7, p. 479; 

 Bleeker Perc, p. 50 ; Rich. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1842, 

 vol. 9, p. 126 ; Riipp. N. Wirb. Fische, p. 95. 



Pterapon trivittatus, Gray, Incl. Zool, pi. — 



Specimens were got at Cape York, and in Hall Sound, New 

 Guinea. 



22. — Therapon caudovittatus. 



Datnia caudovittata, Rich. Voy. Ei'eb. and Terr., Fishes, p. 24, 

 pi. 18, f. 3-5. 



Found abundantly about Long Island in Torres Straits. 



23. — Pristipoma hasta. 



Lutjanus hasta, Bloch, t. 246, f. 1, Lacep. 4, p. 229. 

 Labrus commersonii, Lacep. 3, pp. 431-447, pi. 23, f. 1. 

 Lutjanus microstoma, Lacep. 3, pi. 34, f. 2. 

 Pristipoma TcaTcaan, Cuv. and Val. 2, p. 244, &c. 



„ hasta, Cuv. and Val. 5, p. 247, &c. 



,, commersonii, Cuv. and Val. 5, p. 252, &c. 



„ chrysobalioa, Cuv. and Val. 5, p. 248. 



One specimen of this beautiful fish was taken in Hall Sound, 

 New Guinea. 



