720 Memoirs of the Indian Museum. [Vol. V, 



1911. Terapon jarbua, Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus. IV, p. 187. 



1912. Therapon jarbua, Bean and Weed, Proc. Ü. S. Nat. Mus. XIII, p. 605. 



1913. Therapon jarbua, Weber, 'Siboga'-Exped. LVII, Fisch., p. 254. 



1913. Therapon jarbua, Sewell, Joum. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, (n. s.) IX, pp. 334 and 344. 

 1913. Therapon servus, Jordan, Tanaka and Snyder, Joum. Coll. Sei. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, XXXIII, 



p. 168. 

 1915. Therapon jarbua, Boulenger, Cat. Freshw. Fish. Afric. Brit. Mus. Ill, p. 113, fig. 114. 

 1917. Therapon jarbua, Hornell, Madras Fish. Bull. XI, p. 91. 



Hamilton Buchanan has left an excellent figure of this fish in the plate No. 67 of the 

 volume of his manuscript drawings ; x the name "Holocentrus (?) JcatJcaya" is on the back 

 of the plate in his own handwriting. This drawing is evidently the original of the badly 

 copied figure in Hardwicke's Illustrations. 2 The figure was named Pterapon trivittatus 

 and was published without any acknowledgment of the source, the name also evidently 

 was borrowed without acknowledgment from Hamilton's Fishes of the Ganges (p. 92) on a 

 mistaken identity of the published species with the unpublished manuscript figures. 



There are altogether five specimens in the collection, four of which are from Satpara, 

 but no special locality is known for the fifth which measures 88 mm. and was collected at 

 the end of July 1913. Of the Satpara specimens the biggest measures 115 mm. in length 

 and was collected on 12th September 1914 and the remaining three on March, 1914, 

 measuring 83 mm., 85 mm. and 95 mm. The biggest specimen has eleven spines in the 

 first dorsal, the one measuring 95 mm. in length has ten prominent spines and a rudiment- 

 ary one anteriorly. Of the rest one has a trace of a spine but the other two specimens 

 have only ten prominent spines in the first dorsal fin. These facts satisfactorily explain 

 the differences in the observations of Günther and Hunzinger on the number of spines. 



Distribution. — Red Sea, east coast of Africa, seas and estuaries of India, the Malay 

 Archipelago, north coast of Australia, Formosa, Japan, Samoa, Fiji, New Britain, New 

 Guinea and the Solomon Islands. 



Therapon puta, Cuvier. 



1803. Perca sp. (Jceelputa), Russell, Fish. Vizag. II, p. 19, pi. cxvi. 



1817. Terapon puta, Cuvier, Peg. Anim. Ed. I, II, p. 295. 



1822. Coius trivittatus, Hamilton Buchanan, Fish. Ganges, pp. 92 and 370. 



1829. Therapon puta, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Nat. Hist. Poiss. Ill, p. 131. 



1829. Therapon ghebul, id., ibid. Ill, p. 133. 



1836. Therapon puta, Cuvier, Reg. Anim., Poiss., p. 4-3, pi. xii, fig. 2. 



1849. Therapon trivittatus, M'Clellaud, Joum. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 1001. 



1853. Therapon puta, Jerdon, Madras Joum. Lit. Sei. XVII, p. 130. 



1859. Therapon trivittatus, Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, p. 281. 



1859. Therapon ghebul, id., ibid., 1, p. 281. 



1865. Therapon trivittatus, Kner, Reis. 'Novara,' Fisch., p. 45. 



1865. Therapon trivittatus, Day, Fish. Malabar, p. 17. 



1873. Therapon (Datina) trivittatus, Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierh. IV, p. 375. 



1 Chaudhuri, Mem. Ind. Mus. V, p. 444 and foot-note. 



2 Gray, Illustrations of Indian Zoology from the collection of Major-General Hardwiche, II, pi. lxxxviii, fig. 1. 



