150 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1885. 



aa. Length of head greater than depth of body, 3£ in length of 



body; depth 4 in length; snout 1] in length of body; 



maxillary not quite reaching the vertical from front of 



eye ; eye 5 in head ; interorbital space 12^ in length of 



body ; barbels reaching to a point half-way between angle 



of preopercle and extremity of opercle, 1^ in head. Sides 



of body with three yellow longitudinal" stripes ; first dorsal 



barred with light and black. surmuletus. 1. 



aaa. Length of head about equal to depth of body, about 3f in 



length of body ; snout 7 T 6 o in length of body ; maxillary 



just reaching vertical from front of eye; eye 4 in head; 



interorbital space 14| in length of body ; barbels reaching 



to extremity of opercle, L\ in head ; scales in lateral line 



32. Sides of body with two yellow longitudinal stripes ; 



first dorsal with an orange band at base and a yellow one 



higher up ; second dorsal mottled with scarlet and pale ; 



no black on dorsals. surmuletus auratus. 1 (b). 



1. Mullus surmuletus. 



(a.) Var. surmuletus. 



Trigla capite glabro, Uneis utunque quatuor, luteis longitudinalibus paral- 

 lellis Artcdi, Ichthyol., 1738, 43 (Mediterranean Sea ; Ocean by 

 Cornwall). 



Mullus surmuletus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 1758, ed. 10, 300 (Mediter- 

 ranean); Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 1766, ed. 12, 496 (Mediterranean); 

 Brunich, Ichthyol. Massiliensis, 1768, 72 (Marseilles); Pennant, 

 "Brit. Zool., iii, 1769, 368, pi. 64"; Bloch, Ichthyologia, Taf. 57, 

 1785; Bonnature, "Ichthyol, 1790, 144, pi. 59, fig. 233"; Linnaeus, 

 "Fauna, Suec. ed. Retz, 1800, 341 "; Shaw, "Brit. Zool., iv, 1800, 

 1819, 613, pi. 88"; Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 1801, 77, 

 Taf. 18; Donovan, "Brit. Fish., i, 1801, pi. 12"; Turton, "Brit. 

 Zool., 1807, 102"; Risso, Ichthyol. de Nice, 1810, 215 (Nice); Mar- 

 tens, "Reise nachVenedig, ii, 1824, 427" (Venice); Fleming, "Brit. 

 An., 1828, 216"; Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss, iii, 1829, 

 433 (Marseilles ; Ivica ; Nice; Naples); Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 

 ii, 1829. 



Mullus xurmuletus Lacepede, Poiss., v, 1832, 75 (Mediterranean, Baltic, 

 Atlantic Ocean); Jenyns, "Manual Brit. Vert., 1835,337"; Yarnll. 

 "Brit. Fishes, i, 1841, ill": Guichenot, Explor. Sci. Alger. Poiss., 

 1850, 38 (Algiers); White, "Cat. Brit, Fish., 1851, 14"; Thompson, 

 "Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv, 1856, 70" (Ireland); Giinther, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mus., i, 1859, 401 (Brixham ; British Channel; Medeira, Medi- 

 terranean; Dalmatia); Couch, "Fish. Brit, Isles, i. 1862, 2i>8, pi. 



