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deptli is less for its size; the third anal spine is shorter, as is the anal 

 base, the ventrals and ventral spine. Of the others, the Suniatran 

 and Philippine specimens show only 80 to 83 scales in longitudinal 

 series above the lateral line (90 to 105 in Japanese) and the size of the 

 eye is greater than that of the Japanese, usually less than 4§ in head. 

 The Australian specimens correspond closely to the Japanese. The 

 Samoan examples have slightly larger eyes and have the same scale 

 counts as those of the East Indies, The Chinese and Formosan 

 specimens correspond to the Japanese in scale counts, but have larger 

 eyes, probably due in part to the smaller size of the specimens. The 

 preopercular serrations of the East Indian fish are seemingly blunter 

 than those of the Japanese. Outside of these characters no differ- 

 ences have been discovered in color or measurements. Since the scale 

 counts differ so greatly, the Japanese species is probably not the same 

 as that of the East Indies, Philippines, and Samoa, and is the same 

 as the Formosan and Chinese form. The Arabian specimen must 

 be taken as t3^pical of Scisena jarbua Forskal.' It should stand as 

 Therapon jarhua, while the Japanese species is TJierapon servus. We 

 have specimens of this species from Kagoshima. Others from Izu 

 and Miyakojima are in the Imperial Museum. 

 (servus, slave.) 



Scale counts in longiludinal series above lateral line in Therapon serrus and. Therapon 



jarbua. 



8. THERAPON OXYRHYNCHUS Temminck and Schlegel. 



Therapon oxyrhynchus Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1842, p. 16, 

 pi. G, fig. 3 (Nagasaki). — Bleeker, Nieuwe Nalez. Verli. Bat. -Gen., vol. 26, 

 1857, p. 64 (Japan). — Richardson, Ichth. China an dJapan, 1846, p. 239. — 

 GiJNTHER Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 281 (Japan, China, India). — 

 Bleeker, Enum. Poiss., Verh. kon. Akad. Amst., vol. 18, 1879, p. 7 

 (Nagasaki, Sliimoda). — Steindachner and Doderlein, Beitr. II, Denkschr. 

 kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1883, p. 10 (Tokyo).- — Nystrom, Jap. Fisksaml., K. 

 Svenska Vet. Akad., vol. 13, 1887, Afd. 4, No 4, p. 9 (Nagasaki).— Jordan 

 and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1900, p. 355 (Tokyo).— Smith 

 and Pope, Proc. U. S. Na|. Mus., vol. 31, 1907, p. 475 (Kochi, Matsushima 

 Bay). — Jordan and Snyder, Check List, Ann. Zool. Jap., vol. 3, pts. 2 and 

 8, 1901, p. 78. 



Habitat. — Seas of Japan, China, and India. 



Description of numerous specimens from Shimiju, Suruga, Waka- 

 noura, Kagoshima, Nagasaki, Akune, Nagaoka, and Tokyo, Japan; 

 and Swatow, China. Length from 60 to 195 mm. 



' Descr. Animal, 1775, p. 50. 



