330 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



1%, emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 to 3^; pectoral 

 11/2 to 13/5; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Back pale brown, below whitish. Iris whitish. Dark brown band 

 begins over nostrils, runs over eye to bases of last dorsal rays ; second 

 band from snout tip to eye and then along median body axis to 

 caudal medianly to its hind edge. Dark or reddish band hori- 

 zontally across each caudal lobe medianly. Spinous dorsal pale or 

 whitish, with large black area over highest portion. Soft dorsal 

 pale, with dusky apical margin. Other fins pale, lower whitish. 

 Anal sometimes with dusky median area. 



Red Sea. Arabia, Zanzibar, Seychelles, India, Ceylon, Singapore, 

 East Indies, Philippines, Tonkin, Queensland. 

 20141. Bacoor, Luzon. June 15, 190S. Length 76 mm. 



18211. Manila market. December 12, 1908. Length 103 mm. Broad black 

 stripe from eye to end of caudal ; another above, from upper opercle angle to 

 hind edge of soft dorsal. Short faint line along spinous dorsal base, appears 

 as black margin to soft dorsal. Large jet black s^pot of spinous dorsal sur- 

 rounded by white. Anal dusky, edge white. Oblique black stripe on each 

 caudal lobe and tip of upper lobe with horizontal black spot. 

 6921 to 6924. Tacloban market. July 25, 1909. Length 124 to 147 mm. 

 32711 U.S.N.M. Indian Archipelago. Royal Museum Leiden. Length 144 mm. 

 56128 U.S.N.M. San Fabian. Bureau of Fisheries (3738). Length 123 mm. 

 56274 U.S.N.M. Bulan. Bureau of Fisheries. length 46 to 70 mm. 

 72250 U.S.N.M. Iloilo. R. C. McGregor. Length 106 mm. 

 72665 U.S.N.M. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length 119 to 128 mm. 2 examples. 



TERAPON JARBUA (Forskal) 



Sciaena jarhua Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. xii, 50. Djedda, Red 

 Sea.— BoNN-ATEKBE, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 123 (Red Sea ) .— Gmelin, Syst. 

 Nat. Linn., vol. 1, 1789, p. 1303 (Arabia).— Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, 

 1792, p. 318 (on Forskal). — Shaw, General Zool., vol. 4, 1803, p. 541 

 (Arabian Seas). 



Holooentrvs jarhua Lac^pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pi. 30, tig. 3; vol. 

 4, 1802, pp. 329, 348 (on Forskal). 



Therapon jaruba Klunzingeb, Verb. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 729 

 (Koseir, Red Sea).— Day, FLshes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 69, pi. 18, tig. 4.— 

 Peters, IMonatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 437 (Mauritius; Seychelles). — 

 KLUxNziNGEai, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 80, pt. 1, 1879, p. 349 

 (Port Darwin, Port Denison, Endeavor River) ; Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, 

 p. 26. — BoxTLETNTGER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudou, 1887, p. 656 (Mu.scat). — Day, 

 Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, p. 505, fig. 153.— Weber, Zool. 

 Ergebn., Reise Nederland. Ost Ind., vol. 3, 1894, p. 407 (Tanette River 

 mouth, Celebes ; Kupang and Koinimo River, Timor) ; Semon's Zool. Forsch. 

 Reis. Austral., vol. 5, 1895, p. 262 (Ambon). — Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1897, p. 75 (Swatow, China). — Steindachner, Abh. Sencken- 

 berg. Ges., vol. 25, 1900, p. 417 (Ternate; Baram River, Borneo). — Jordan 

 and EvEEMANN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 1902, p. 348 (Formosa). — 

 DuNCKEB, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, 1903 (1904), p. 149 

 (Kuala Puhang). — Borsieri, Anal. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, vol. 41, 

 1904, p. 195 (Massaua and Daalac Island, Red Sea). — Fowler, Journ. 



