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Perca cincta Gunthek, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 279. India. 

 (Name in text.) 



Holoocntrtiti katkai/a ( Buchanan-Hamilton) Chaudhitri, Mem. Indian Mu.s., 

 vol. 5, No. 2, April, 1923, p. 720 (MS name on pi. No. 67 of Buchanan- 

 Hamilton, also of Gray, pi. 88, fig. 1). 



Depth 2% to 31/4 ; head 3 to 314, width 1% to 1%. Snout 3 to 

 3I/4 in head; eye 4i/^ to 4%, I14 in snout, II/4 in interorbital ; maxil- 

 lary reaches l^ to 14 in eye, expansion 1% to 2 in eye, length 2i^ to 

 2% in head; bands of villiform teeth in jaws, outer row little en- 

 larged, conic ; small transverse band of villiform teeth on vomer, none 



Figure 26. — Terapon jarbua (ForskAl). Variation of color markings 



on palatines; interorbital 3I/2 to 3%, broad, flattened; preorbital 

 finely serrated; preopercle edge with 25 denticles, well developed at 

 lower corner. Gill rakers 6 + 13, compressed, short, % of gill 

 filaments. 



Scales 76 to 78 in lateral line to caudal base and 6 more on latter ; 

 15 or 16 scales above lateral line, 23 to 25 below, 20 to 25 predorsal, 

 6 or 7 rows on cheek. Suprascapula finely denticulate. Scales with 

 10 to 13 slightly radiating basal striae; apical denticles 15 to 21, with 

 2 to 4 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli fine. 



D. XI, I, 10, I, fourth dorsal spine ll^ to 2 in head, first ray 2i/s 

 to 21/3; A. Ill, 8, I, third spine 2% to 31/2, first ray 1% to 2; caudal 

 1 to 1%, emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3; pec- 

 toral 1% to 1% ; ventral 1% to 1%. 



