66 DireHor' s Annual Report. 



1.66 into head. Color iu spirits: Silvery, with slight yellowish 

 wash, slightly darker above. Pe(5torals dusky, with their lower 

 margin yellowish. Anterior of anal dusky. Caudal, dorsals and 

 ventrals yellowish white ; iris yellow. One specimen. Length 13 

 inches. Guam, June 14, 1900. Hab. Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Poly- 

 nesia, Marianas. 



61. Mugil axillaris Bleek. 



Head 3.50; depth 3.66; eye 3.50; interorbital 2.50; D. iv, 8; 

 A. Ill 9. Scales 44. No adipose eyelid. No teeth in jaws. Pec- 

 torals reach to vertical base of dorsal, the tip of pecftorals being on 

 the 13 series of scales from the back of the head. The preorbital 

 is indistinctly denticulate. Maxillary hidden. Snout shorter than 

 orbit. Twenty-one series of scales between tip of snout and origin 

 of dorsal. Caudal is slightly emarginate. Dorsal fins are of 

 about equal length, the first dorsal spine is eqvtal distance between 

 tip of snout and base of caudal. Pectorals are equal in length 

 to the distance from posterior edge of opercle to anterior nostril. 

 An elongated scale in axis of pedtorals. The origin of soft dorsal 

 is very little behind origin of anal. Color in spirits : Silvery, with 

 bluish wash, deeper blue on back. Ventrals white. Pecftorals, dor- 

 sals, anal and caudal fins slightly dusky. One specimen. I^ength 

 3 inches. Guam, July 12, 1900. Hab. East Indian Archipelago, 

 Marianas, Samoa. 



(i2,-^\, Mugil planiceps Cuv. & Val. Agoas. 



Head 4; depth 4; eye with adipose lid developed on fore and 

 back of eye, but not extending on pupil. The clear part of eye 4.66 

 into head ; interorbital 2.20. Scales 36 ; 19 series of scales from 

 snout to first dorsal spine; D. iv, 18; A. iii 9. There are 20 series 

 of scales between origin of dorsal and tip of .snout. The anterior 

 margin of vSpinous dorsal is exacftly midway between tip of snout 

 and base of caudal fin. A lance-like scale above axes of pecftorals. 

 Lips thin. The ped-toral fin barely reaches the vertical of base of 

 dorsal, ending on the eighth scale of a lateral series. The soft dorsal 

 has its origin above the third soft anal ray. Caudal rather deeply 

 emarginate. Color in spirits : Silver}^ with wash of 3'ellowish, 

 slightly darker above ; more or less golden reflecftion behind eye. 

 Peiftorals white, the former with an indistinct dusky blotch at ba.se. 

 Caudal, dorsals and anal with more or less indistinct dusky wash. 

 Three specimens. Length 3-6 inches. Guam, May 26, 1900. Hab. 

 Coasts of Ceylon, Bengal, Hindostan, China, Marianas. 



Genus SPHYR^NA (Artedi) Block & Schneider. 



65. Sphyrsena obtusata Cuv. & Val. 



Head 3; depth 8.50; eye 5.33: maxillae 2.30; mandible 1.50; 

 interorbital equal to eye ; snout 2.20 into head ; D. v, 19; A. 18. 

 Scales 92, extending over opercles and cheeks. Body rather elon- 



