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Therapon transversus CtrviEK, Hist. Nat. Poiss., voL 3, 1829, p. 137. Malabar. 

 Therapon cinereus Valbinciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1829, p. 138. Sea 



of the Indies. — GDnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 276 (India). — 



ScHMELTz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 3, 1866, p. 7 (Samoa) ; No. 4, 1869, p. 13 



(Rockhampton). 

 Datnia virgata Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 480. Bengal 



Bay. 

 Therapon virgatus GiJNTHES, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1. 1859, p. 276 (copied). 

 Therapon rubhcattis Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 1842, p. 127. 



North west coast of Australia. 

 Perca argentea GiJNTHEK, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 277. India. 



(Name in text.) 

 Therapon nigripinnis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, 



1881, p. 366. Rockingham Bay. 



Depth 2% to 3; head 2% to 32/5, width 12/^ to 2. Snout 3 to 31/3 

 in head; eye 3% to 4%, little longer than snout in young to 1% to 

 1% with age, greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches 1/5 to 1/2 

 in eye, expansion 1% to 2% in eye, length 2% to 3% in head ; bands 

 of villiform teeth in jaws, outer row in each slightly enlarged, curved, 

 conic; palate and tongue toothless; interorbital 3i/^ to 3%? slightly 

 convex, striate; preorbital edge with small striae; preopercle edge 

 with 35 denticles. Gill rakers 8 + 16, compressed, rather short or less 

 than gill filaments. 



Scales 45 to 52 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 or 5 more on 

 latter; 9 or 10 scales above lateral line, 14 or 15 below, 12 to 15 

 predorsal, 5 or 6 rows on cheek. Suprascapula denticulate; scales 

 with 11 or 12 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 15 to 19, small, 

 with 3 or 4 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli fine. 



D. XI or XII, 9, I or 10, i, fourth spine 1% to 22/5 in head, fourth 

 ray 21/3 to 22/5; A. Ill, 8 i, third spine 21/3 to 21/2, first ray 1% to 2: 

 caudal 1% to 1%, emarginate; least dej)th of caudal peduncle 2 to 3; 

 pectoral I2/5 to I1/2 ; ventral II/3 to I2/5. 



Back pale brown, below whitish, overshot with silvery white 

 Diffuse horizontal band along base of spinous dorsal, another from 

 side of occiput to middle of soft dorsal, third axial from snout tip 

 through eye to caudal peduncle above and fourth from pectoral 

 axil indistinctly till above vent. Iris pale brown. Fins light brown 

 generally. Spinous dorsal with large black apical blotch. Small 

 black spot at apex of soft dorsal, and second dark horizontal body 

 band continues out over middle of soft dorsal horizontally. Upper 

 caudal lobe tipped black, two dusky bars across lobe; lower caudal 

 lobe with 2 dusky bars across. Anal with dark blotch medially. 



Red Sea, Zanzibar, Seychelles, India, Andamans, Malacca, Singa- 

 pore, Pinang, East Indies, Philippines, Cochin China, North Aus- 

 tralia, Queensland, Micronesia. Similar to Terapon jarbuu except 

 the dark horizontal bands not bending downward and arranged a 



