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Depth 23/5 to 21/2; head 23/5 to 23^, width 21/3 to 21/5. Snout 

 2^8 to 3% in head ; eye 3 to 31/5, II/5 in snout or greater than snout 

 in young, greater than interorbital at all ages; maxillary reaches 

 opposite hind nostril, expansion 3 to 31^ in eye, length 3l^ to 31/3 

 in head; teeth in villiform bands in jaws, with outer row uniformly 

 enlarged ; interorbital 4% to 4%, nearly level ; preopercle edge with 

 rather large denticles. Gill rakers 9 + 17, lanceolate, equal gill fila- 

 ments or 214 in eye. 



Scales 48 or 49 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 more on lat- 

 ter; 11 scales above lateral line, 19 below, 15 predorsal to occiput, 

 7 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge. Suprascapula denticulated. 

 Scales with 9 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 25, slender, 

 rather long, with 6 transverse series of basal elements; circuli very 

 fine. 



D. XIII, 10, I, fourth spine 1% to 1% in head, fourth ray 14^ ; 

 A. Ill, 9, I, second spine 1% to 1%, second ray I3/5 to 1%; caudal 

 1% to 11/5, emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 21/2 to 2%; 

 pectoral 1% to 1^ ; ventral 114- 



Brown, little paler and with whitish tint below. Body with in- 

 conspicuous though slightly darker ill defined spots about size of 

 pupil over all of trunk and tail. Iris whitish. Spinous dorsal, 

 ventrals and front of anal blackish, fins otherwise all dull brown. 



Polynesia. A very inconspicuous though well marked small 

 species, readily known by its spotted coloration. 



66062 U.S.N.M. Suva, Fiji. Albatross Collection. Length 59 to 88 mm. 4 

 examples. Paratypes of Therapon maculatus. 



TERAPON MICRACANTHUS (Bleeker) 



Datnia micracanthus Bleekee, Act. Soc. Sei. Ind. N6erland. (Celebes), vol. 8, 



1860, p. 56. Lagusi, Celebes. 

 Therapon {Datnia) micracanthus Bleekes, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 



7, 1873-1876, p. 117 (Celebes) ; vol. 8, 1876-1877, pi. (62)340, fig. 1. 

 Therapon micracanthus Webeb, Zool. Ergebn. Reise Nederland. Ost. Ind., vol. 



3, 1894, p. 408 (Amparang River south of Balanguipa, Mini-alang River, 



at Tempe and Tjenrana River at Pampanua, Celebes). 

 Therapon trimaculatus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 8, 



1884, p. 259. Fresh water, Goldie River, British New Guinea. — Ogilby and 



MoCuixocH, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, 1916, p. 120, pi. 13, fig. 1 



(types).— FowLEB, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 212 (compiled). 

 Therapon habbemai Webeb, Notes Leyden Mus., vol. 34, pt. 4, 1910, p. 234. 



Lorentz River; Nova Guinea, vol. 9, pt. 4, 1913, p. 583, figs. 33-34 (Alkmaar, 



Lorentz River, Bivak Island). — Regan, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 20, 



pt. 6, 1914, p. 276 (Mimika River, New Guinea). 



Depth 2^0 to 21/2 ; head 2% to 2j\. Snout 2% to dj\ in head; eye 

 3iV to 4%, 1 to 114 in snout; maxillary reaches opposite hind nostril 

 or front eye edge, expansion 2% in eye, length 314 in head ; band of 

 teeth in each jaw, with outer ones largest, cylindrical, fixed; inter- 



