360 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



D. 11/11. A. 3/8. L. lat. 65-66. Ofec. pylor. 8. 



Externally very similar to Ctenolates amhiguus. Snout scaleless. 

 The fourth and fifth dorsal spines longest, the second of the anal 

 much longer and stronger than the third. Uniform brownish. 



Macquarie River. 



Genus Therapon, Cuv. 



Six branchiostegals. Eye of moderate size. Teeth, villiform 

 in both jaws, deciduous on the vomer and j^alatine bones. 

 Operculum spiniferous, preeoperculum serrated. Dorsal fin more 

 or less notched with twelve or sometimes thirteen spines; anal 

 with three. Scales moderate. Air bladder with two divisions — 

 an anterior and posterior, separated by a contraction. Caeca 

 pylorica in moderate number. 



Indian and Australian seas and rivers. 



128. Therapon theraps, Cuv. & Val. 



D. 12/10. A. 3/8. L. lat. bb. Vert. 10/15. 



Height of body three times and a-haK in the total length, the 

 head four times ; snout once and a-third in the space between the 

 eyes. Pr^eoperculum rounded, serrated, with moderate teeth at 

 the angle, operculum with two spines, the lower of which is 

 elongate and strong. Grreenish-grey, with three straight, brown 

 longitudinal bands, the lowest of which extends from the head to 

 the tail ; the spinous portion of the dorsal fin blackish between 

 the third and seventh spines; two or three blackish bands obliquely 

 crossing each lobe of the tail. 



Port Darwin and North-east Coast of Queensland, 



This species which has a very wide range is figured in Bleeker's 

 Atlas of the Percidoe, pi. 43, f. 1, with four longitudinal bands, 

 and with a brown tip to the second dorsal fin. 



