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little differently. The two species are well contrasted as seen in 

 Day's figures. 



22613. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. April 22, 1908. Length 52 mm. 



22525. Dagupan, Luzon. March 19, 1908. Length 69 mm. 



19131. Dasol Bay. May 8, 1909. Length 192 mm. 



7413. Port Uson, Busuanga Island. December 17, 1908. Length 184 mm. 



11833, 20228. Sandakan market, Borneo. March 2, 1908. Length 94 to 100 



mm. 

 Five examples. Sandakan Bay, Borneo. March 2, 1908. Length 84 to 104 mm. 

 32744 U.S.N.M. Indian Archipelago. Royal Museum Leiden. Length 168 mm. 

 44571 U.S.N.M. Indian Ocean. Dr. W. L. Abbott. Length 51 to 63 mm. 3 



examples. 

 47597 U.S.N.M. Red Sea. Glen Island, New York Museum. Length 172 to 



208 mm. 2 examples. 

 47993 U.S.N.M. Cochin China. Lyons Museum. Length 58 mm. 

 57920 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length 18 mm. 



72667 U.S.N.M. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length 36 mm. 



72668 U.S.N.M. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length 135 to 153 mm. 2 examples. 

 27613 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. Length 



150 mm. Two examples. When fresh in arrack silvery, upper parts pale 

 brown, lower whitish. Nape deep brown and longitudinal band till behind 

 middle of soft dorsal joined to an indistinct dark band extending along base 

 of fin. Deep brown band from eye along side of body and ui.jper part of 

 caudal peduncle out over caudal to its edge. Pale band from lower .side of 

 head through pectoral and over lower side of caudal peduncle to its edge. 

 Fins with more or less whitish and marginal portions of spinous ones with 

 blackish blotch in front. Soft dorsal with several dusky blotches. Caudal 

 lobes with blackish brown blotches or cross bands, that of upper terminal. 

 Anal with dusky blotch. Pectoral slightly dusky. Ventral whitish. 

 Peritoneum dusky gray. 



Subgenus Mesopristes Bleeker 



Lower opercular spine small, reaches little beyond opercular lobe. 

 Suprascapula exposed, not hidden by scales. Coloration largely 

 uniform. 



TERAPON HILLI Castelnau 



Therapon hilli Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 2, 1877, p. 226. 



Taroom on the upper Dawson River. 

 Therapon hillli OGir.UY and McCulixich, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, 1916, p 



121, pi. 13, fig. 2, text fig. 1 (Zamia Creek, Gyranda and Norman River). 



Depth 21/3 to 2% ; head SyV to 3%. Snout SyV to 3% in head ; eye 

 414 to 5l^, ll^ to 1% in snout; maxillary reaches opposite hind nos- 

 tril or front eye edge, expansion 214 in eye, length 3i/4 to 4^ in head; 

 each jaw with row of cardiform, somewhat flattened and partly de- 

 pressed teeth, followed by broad band of villiform teeth; vomer with 

 single median tooth or smooth ; interorbital 3 to 3I/2 in head, flat or 

 slightly convex; preopercle evenly denticulate behind, teeth slightly 

 enlarged on roimded angle. Gill rakers ?, rather long and slender. 



