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and anal spines silvery, membranes of soft fins with pectorals and 

 caudal gray or yellowish. Border of spinous dorsal black. Length 

 67 mm. (Sauvage.) 

 Madagascar. 



TERAPON CARBO Ogilby and McCulloch 



Therapon ciirbo Ogilby and McCulloch, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, 1916, 

 p. 116, pi. 12, fig. 1. Upper waters of the Gregory River, District of Car- 

 penteria. — Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 369 (name only; Queens- 

 land). — Johnson and Bancroft, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 33, No. 

 10, 1921, p. 177 (mortality in Thomson River, Cooper's Creek). 



Depth 21/3 to 22/g; head 2% to 3, width 1%. Snout 3 to 31/5 in 

 head; eye 4, 1^5 to ly^ in snout; maxillary reaches below hind 

 nostril, length 3^ in head; teeth in villiform band in each jaw, outer 

 row enlarged and erect; interorbital slightly convex, width little 

 less than snout ; hind preopercle edge coarsely serrated. Gill rakers 

 5 + 11, 1/3 of eye. 



Scales 63 along lateral line above, 58 along lateral line below; 

 tubes 56 in lateral line ; 10 scales above lateral line, 23 below, 7 rows 

 on cheek. 



D. XII, 13 or 14, fifth or sixth spines 2i4 to 2% in head, fourth ray 

 2xV ; A. Ill, 11 or 12, second spine 2% to 2%, third ray 2i/8 ; caudal 

 ly^, rounded; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral II/2; 

 ventral 1%. 



Uniform blackish. Length 182 mm. (Ogilby and McCulloch.) 



TERAPON FULIGINOSUS Macleay 



Therapon fuUginosus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 8, pt. 2, 

 1884, p. 201. Upper Burdekin, Queensland. — Ogilby and McCulloch, Mem. 

 Queensland Mus., vol. 5, 1916, p. 117, pi. 12, fig. 2 (types). — Fowler, Mem. 

 Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1929, p. 212 (compiled). 



Hephaestus tuUiensis De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, 1885, 

 p. 399. Tully and Murray Rivers, Queensland. 



Therapon romeri Weber, Notes Leyden Mus., vol. 32, pt. 4, 1910, p. 233. 

 Lorentz River, New Guinea ; Nova Guinea, vol. 9, pt. 4, 1913, p. 584, fig. 35 

 (Lorentz River at Van Weelskamp, Sebang and Regeninsel). 



Depth 23/5; head 21*^ to 314. Snout 2% to S^V in head; eye 

 4 to 4%, ly^ to 1% in snout, greater than interorbital in young to 

 less with age; maxillary nearly reaches eye or l^ in eye, 314 in 

 head; teeth in bands in jaws, outer row enlarged; interorbital little 

 elevated, nearly flat, without bony ridges; preopercle evenly den- 

 ticulate, denticles largest above rounded angle. Lower gill rakers 

 16, well developed, slender. 



Scales 51 to 58 along above lateral line to caudal base, 46 to 50 

 along below lateral line to caudal base ; 9 or 10 above lateral line, 14 

 below, 8 or 9 rows on cheek. 



