258 THE FISHES OF NEW GUINEA, 



290. Therapon nasutus. n. sp. 



D. 12/9. A. 3/8. L. lat. 58. 



The height of the body is more than one-third of the total 

 length, and considerably more than the length of the head. The 

 profile from the occiput to the snout is straight, the space between 

 the eyes is flat and its width is more than the diameter of the 

 orbit, the snout is long and roundly pointed, the distance from the 

 eye, which is large, to the snout nearly equals two diameters of the 

 orbit ; the maxillary only reaches to the vertical from the anterior 

 margin of the eye, the lower jaw is shorter than the upper and 

 shuts into it; the prseorbital is large, naked, and without serration \ 

 the praeoperculum is strongly denticulated and without scales on the 

 limb, the operculum is aimed with two acute spines placed rather 

 close together ; the coracoid is of truncated form, and is strongly 

 denticulated. The spines of the dorsal fin are very strong, the 

 first is small, the fourth and fifth are the longest, they can all be 

 received into a scaly sheath on the back grooved on each side ; the 

 anal spines are also very strong, the second the largest ; the caudal 

 is slight emarginate. 



Colour silvery grey, a broad band through the anal fin, and the 

 anterior rays of the ventrals, blackish. Length, 1 1 inches. 



From fresh water, Normanby Island. 



291. Therapon interruptus. n. sp. 



D. 12/10. A. 3/8. L. lat. 50. 



The height of the body is less than one-third of the total length, 

 and very little more than the length of the head. The profile is of 

 uniform convexity from the dorsal fin to the snout, which 

 terminates in a rounded point. The eyes are of moderate size, the 

 space between convex, and in width equal to nearly twice the 

 diameter of the orbit ; the distance from the eye to the point of 

 the snout is rather more than twice the diameter of the orbit. The 

 lips are thick, the upper one completely overlaps the lower, the 

 maxillary reaches to below the anterior margin of the eye, and is 

 only slightly visible above the posterior part of the upper lip. The 

 praeorbital is broad, naked, and apparently without serration, the 



