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to 3 in head from snout tip; teeth fine, in bands in jaws, outer row 

 enlarged; palate and tongue toothless; interorbital 6 to 6%, convex. 

 Gill rakers 7 + 9, short points Yq of gill filaments, which I14 in eye. 



Scales 60 to 62 in lateral line to caudal base and 10 more on latter ; 

 10 scales aoove lateral line, 19 below, 26 predorsal forward opposite 

 eye center, 15 rows on cheek of which 5 rows on preopercle flange. 

 Suprascapula denticulate. Scales with 7 basal radiating striae; 

 apical denticles 50, with 2 or 3 transverse series of basal elements; 

 circuli very fine. 



D. XII, 13, I, fourth spine 2l^ to 21^ in total head length, fourth 

 ray 21/^ to 2% ; A. Ill, 8, i, second spine 1 3^ to 2, second ray 2yV to 

 214 ; caudal 1% to 1%, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 32/5 to 34^ ; pectoral 1% to 1% ; ventral IVs to 1%. 



Brown, paler below. Five transverse dark brown bands little 

 narrower than pale interspaces, last broken or irregular, or as 

 blotches on caudal peduncle and caudal base. 



India, Siam, East Indies. 



4094 U.S.N.M. Ceylon ? National Institute. Length 147 mm. 



21173 U.S.N.M. Siam. Museum Hist. Nat. Paris. Length 129 mm. 



28666 U.S.N.M. Cochin China. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris. Length 133 mm. 



Genus TERAPON Cuvier 



Terapon Cuviee, R6gne Animal, vol. 2, 1817, p. 295. Type Holocentrus sen^us 



Bloch, designated by Bleseker, Arch. N§erland. Sci. Nat. Harlem, vol. 11, 



1876, p. 267. (Error.) 

 Therapon Cutieb, Regne Animal, vol. 2, ed. 2, 1829, p. 148. Type Holocentrus 



servus Bloch. 

 Djabub FoBSKAL, Descript. Animal., 1775, p. 44 (50). Atypic. Type Sciaena 



jarbua Fobskal, understood by vernacular name. (Inadmissible.) 

 Pterapon Gray, Illustrat. Indian Zool. Hardwicke, vol. 2, 1833-1834, pi. 88, 



fig. 1. Type Pterapon trivittatatus G^AY=8ciaena jarbua Fobskal, mono- 



typic. 

 Mesopristes Bleeker, Nat. Geneesk. Arch. Nederland. Indie (Typogr. Batav.), 



vol. 2, 1845, p. 523. Type Mesopristes man-acanthus Bleekeb, monotyi^ic. 

 Autisthes De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9. 1885, p. 398. 



Type Autisthes argenteus De Vis, monotypic. 

 Hephaestus De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, 1885, p. 399. 



Type Hephaestus tuUiensis De Vis, monotypic. 

 Eutherapon Fowleb, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12. 1904, 



p. 527. Type Therapon theraps Cuvier, orthotypic. 



Body ovate to elliptical, usuallj'^ well compressed. Head moderate 

 to large. Snout long. Mouth moderately large, terminal, protrac- 

 tile, cleft oblique, jaws equal. Maxillary exposed terminally or be- 

 hind, without supplemental bone. Lips plicate, rather thin. Teeth in 

 jaws in bands, or outer row enlarged or conic; variably caducous 

 when present on vomer and palatines. Preorbital serrate in young. 

 Preopercle more or less strongly serrated. Opercle with one or two 

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