FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 337 



57934 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length 38 mm. 



57976 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length 15 to 210 mm. 9 



examples. 

 59003 U.S.N.M. Sau Fabian. Bureau of Fisheries (3262). Length 192 mm. 

 59808 U.S.N.M. Kochi, Japan. Dr. H. M. Smith. Length 77 mm. 

 66060 U.S.N.M. Suva, Fiji. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 81 to 217 mm. 6 



examples. 



72011 U.S.N.M. Okinawa, Riu Kiu. Albatross Collections. Length 283 mm. 



72012 U.S.N.M. Okinawa. Albatross Collection. Length 156 mm. 



72219 U.S.N.M. Calayan, Philippines. R. C. McGregor. Length 121 mm. 



72200 U.S.N.M. Southern Negros. R. C. McGregor. Length 62 mm. 



72236 U.S.N.M. Ticao, Philippines. R. C. McGregor. Length 20 to 26 mm. 

 2 examples. 



72666 U.S.N.M. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length 138 mm. 



75449 U.S.N.M. Kagoshima, Japan. Jordan and Snyder. Length 117 to 235 

 mm. 2 examples. As Therapon servus. 



82101 U.S.N.M. Samarang, Java. W. L. Brind. Length 25 to 38 mm. 2 

 examples. 



85482 U.S.N.M. Formosa. Dr. F. Baker. Length 253 mm. 



27611, 27612 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. 

 Length 127 to 227 mm. When fresh in arrack silvery, upper parts pale 

 brown, lower surfaces silvery white. Just below dorsal broad deep brown 

 band on side of back, another from nape along caudal peduncle above where 

 joining former, continued out on caudal to its edge. Two indistinct or ill 

 defined bands from opercle along middle and lower part of side, first persists 

 out across middle of caudal to its edges and other out over lower caudal 

 lobe to its edge. Dorsal and anal whitish, spinous part of former with 

 upper % of fin with 3 large deep brown blotches and soft part with 3 smaller 

 evenly distributed marginal edges. Tips of caudal lobes with deep brown 

 blotch, lower not marginal. Pectoral dusky. Ventral tinted yellowish. 



Subgenus Eutherapon Fowler 



Lower opercular spines greatly developed, produced beyond 

 opercular lobe. Scales small, 13 to 16 above lateral line. Spinous 

 dorsal with large black blotch ; oblique dark bars on caudal ; median 

 dark band from eye to caudal peduncle above, then out over supero- 

 median caudal rays ; below parallel band from pectoral axil, another 

 on back. 



TERAPON THERAPS Curier 



Therapon theraps Cuaiee, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1829, p. 129, pi. 53. Java, 

 Mah6. — RiJppELL, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 95 (Red Sea). — Riceariv 

 SON, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 1842, p. 126 (Port Essington). — Gijntheb, 

 Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859. p. 274 (India, East Indies, Malacca, 

 China, False Bay, Philippines). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mu.s. Godeffroy, No. 1, 

 1864, p. 8 (East Indies) ; No. 2, 1865, p. 6 (East Indies).— Day, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1865, p. 13 (Cochin, Malabar) ; Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 

 19. — Kneb, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 44 (Singapore). — Playfaib, 

 Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 22 (Zanzibar). — Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1870, p. 683 (Andamans). — Klunzinger, Verb. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 

 20, 1870, p. 728 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Castelnau. Proc. Zool. Acelimat. Soc. 

 Victoria, vol. 2, 1873, p. 83 (Port Darwin). — Guntheb, Journ. Mus. Godeff- 



