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rounded, serrated, with strong spinous teeth at the angle ; operculum 

 with two spines, the lower of which is elongate and strong. Greenish 

 grey, with three curved, brown, longitudinal bands, the convexity 

 of which is towards the beUy ; the inferior extends from the head 

 to the taU. ; the spinous portion of the dorsal fin blackish between 

 the fourth and seventh spines ; two blackish bands obliquely crossing 

 each lobe of the caudal. 



Erom the Red Sea along the Eastern Coasts of Africa through all 

 the Indian Seas to the North Coast of Australia; entering fresh 

 waters. 



a. Adult and half-grown : stuffed. Port Essington (fresh water). 



h, c. Adult : stuffed. Cape York. Voyage of the Rattlesnake. 



d-f. Fine specimens. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



g. Adult. Moluccas. From the Leyden Museum. 



h. Adult. Moluccas. 



i. Adult. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



Tc. Adult: skeleton. China, 



I. Adult : stuffed. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



m. Half-grown. China. Presented by Capt. Sir Edward Belcher. 



n. Half-grown : skin. China. From Mr. Warwick's Collection. 



0, p. Young. China. Presented by Capt. Sir Edward Belcher. 



q, r. Half-grown : not good state. Madras. Presented by J. C. 



Jerdon, Esq. 

 s, t. Half-grown : not good state. Madras. Presented by J. C. 



Jerdon, Esq. 

 M, V. Young. Fresh water of Point de (jaUe (Ceylon). Presented 



by Sir A. Smith. 

 w. Adult : stuffed. Red Sea. 



X, y. Half-grown : stuffed. Cape Seas. Presented by Sir A. Smith, 

 z. Half-grown, India. With the name of Perca cincta. 

 a. Half-grown. India. With the name of Perca cincta. 

 13. Half-grown. India. Presented by G. R. Waterhouse, Esq 

 y. Half-grown. India. 

 S. Young : not good state. India. 

 €-0. Young. India. 



(. Young. India. From the Haslar Collection. 

 K. Half-grown: stuffed. (Nepal?) Presented by B.H.Hodgson, Esq. 



SJceleton. — The skeleton of Therapon differs in nothing particularly 

 from that of the Percine type, and does not yet show those developed 

 grooves on the skull of the tnie Scicenidce. The upper surface of 

 the skull is continued, in a straight line, into the occipital crest, 

 which, well developed, exhibits a strong and thick ridge. The 

 frontal bones are flat and broad, without sharp ridges, tapering 

 from the anterior angle of the orbit, and truncated in front. The 

 prseorbital is broaa, irregularly quadrangular, with the lower margin 

 denticulated ; the remainder of the infraorbital arch is very narrow ; 

 the bone next to the prseorbital has at its inner side a broad plate, 

 joining the entopterygoid and supporting the eyeball from beneath. 

 The maxillary is^noderately widened behind; the intermaxillary has a 



