420 ON THE MUGILID^ OF AUSTRALIA, 



the rivers of Western Australia, all the year round, and is a good 

 edible fish." 



B. No adipose eyelid. 



6. Mugil Waigiensis, Quoy and Gaim. 



Gunth. Cat. Brit. Mus., Vol III., p. 435. 



D. 4. 1/7. A. 3/8. L. lat. 26—27. L. transv. 9. Caec. pylor. 10. 

 Vert. 11/13. 



The height of the body is contained four-time and a-f ourth to 

 four-times and three-fourths in the total length, the length of the 

 head four-times and a-half . Head broad, flat above, the width 

 of the interorbital space being one-half of the length of the head. 

 Snout short, broad, depressed and obtuse. Lips thin , the angle 

 made by the anterior margins of the mandibulary bones is very 

 obtuse. The free space at the chin, between the mandibles, is 

 broadly lanceolate. The inferior extremity of the maxillary is 

 visible below the angle of the mouth. Eye without adipose 

 membrane. There are sixteen series of scales between the spinous 

 dorsal fin and the snout. The pectoral extends to the vertical 

 from the orign of the dorsal. The eight and seventeenth scales 

 of the lateral line correspond to the origins of the two dorsal fins. 

 The soft dorsal and the anal short and elevated, scaly ; caudal 

 very slightly emarginate. Pectorals blackish, entirely black in 

 immature specimens. ' ' — ( Gunther.) 



" From the Bed Sea through the Indian Ocean and Archipelago 

 to the Coasts of Australia and to Polynesia," says Dr. Gunther, 

 to these localities Count Castelnau adds Port Jackson. It must 

 however, I think, be rather a rare visitant to the temperate regions 

 of New South Wales, but it is abundant in the Northern parts of 

 Australia at certain seasons, and is most deservedly looked upon 

 as the perfection of piscine excellence. 



I have received specimens from Port Darwin and I found them 

 most abundant at Cape York in the month of July 1875. 



