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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



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snout 4; eye 4; mouth width 3f ; interorbital 2f ; first dorsal spine 

 If; first dorsal ray 1|; third anal spine 3; first anal ray 1|; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 21; pectoral If; ventral If. 



Body elongate, with fusiform contour, compressed, deepest at 

 spinous dorsal origin. Caudal peduncle compressed, least depth 

 about 1| its length. 



Head robust, somewhat constricted below, profiles alike. Snout 

 broad, widely convex as viewed above, length about f its width. 

 Eye circular, hind edge little anterior to center in head length. 

 Adipose-eyelids well developed, posterior extends over last third of 

 eye and anterior about half so wide. Mouth little inferior, corner 

 falls very slightly behind front nostril. Mandibular angle very 



Fig. 3. — Mugil philippinus sp. nov. 



broad, obtuse, symphysis forming little knob which fits in depression 

 above. Teeth very minute, uniserial in upper jaw, and obsolete in 

 mandible. Lips rather fleshy, width of upper about f of pupil. 

 Inner^buccal folds moderately broad, upper little wider. Tongue 

 small, tip free, elongate. Maxillary exposed, about reaches eye. 

 Lower preorbital edge not notched, with a few obsolete denticles. 

 Front nostril about last third in snout, simple pore with slight 

 cutaneous rim. Hind nostril short vertical slit midway between 

 front nostril and front eye edge. Interorbital broadly convex. 



Gill-opening forward about opposite hind pupil edge. Rakers 

 about 38+48, slender, fine, 2| in filaments and latter equal eye. 

 Pseudobranchise about If in gill-filaments. Isthmus narrow, with 

 slight depression. 



