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I)unctulate with brown, its anterior rays tipped with black. Caudal pale, 

 broadly margined with black. Anal j)ale, its basal half appearing 

 dusky from dark punctulations. Pectoral pale in front, rather dusky 

 behind, where tbere is a dusky blotch at base. 



Tbe above description is taken from a specimen from Cuba. Numerous 

 small specimens from Key West entirely agree with it, except that the 

 teeth are larger, being distinctly visible in both jaws. The body is less 

 compressed and the color lighter. 



Little is known of the distribution of this species. It is recorded by 

 Poey as rather rare at Havana. tSeveral specimens were obtained there 

 by Professor Jordan. The young are also common at Key West, where 

 the species is known as Red-eye Mullet. 



In Jordan's list of the fishes of Key West in the current volume of 

 the Proceedings, U. S. Nat. Mus. this species was improperly- omitted, 

 the young specimens above referred to having been overlooked. 



This species is not described by Desmarest and the name gainiardianus 

 should date from its use by Poey. 



6. Mugil curema. fVhite mullet ; Blue-hack mullet; Liza. 



Albula iahamensia (the Mullet), Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, 173y, taf. 6 (Ba- 

 hamas). 



Mugil cure ma, CUA^ & Val., xi, 1836, 87 (Brazil, Martinique, Cuba); ?Gay, 

 "Hist. Chil., Zoo!., ii, 1847, 250." 



Mugil petro8U8, Cuv. & Val., vi, 1836, 89 (Brazil, Surinam, Gulf of Mexico, 

 Cuba) ; De Kay, New York Fauna, 1842, 146 (copied). 



Mugil brazil ten sis, Gl'XTHEK, iii,431, 1861 (Vera Cruz, San Domingo, Jamaica, 

 St. Vincent, British Guiana, Surinam, Para) ; GIjntheb, Fishes Central 

 America, 1869, 443 (Belize, Chiapam, Pauam:i) ; Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. 

 Soc, 1870, 481 (St. Croix, New Providence) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1878, 381 and 382 (Beaufort Harbor) ; Steindachner, 

 Fisch-Fauna Magdalenen-Stromes, 1878, 10 ; Steindachner, Beitriige III, 

 1878, 60 (Rio Janeiro, Cannavierias, Campos, Mendez, Santa Cruz, Porto 

 Alegre, Porto Seguro, Muriahe, Pernambuco, Ce^r^i, Baliia, Rio Par^, 

 Carthagena, St. Thomas, Panama, Acapulco, Magdalenii Bay) ; Goode, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 116 (Saint John's River) ; Goode & Bean, 

 op. c, 1879 (West Florida) ; .Jordan, oiJ.c, 1880, 20 (East Florida) ; Jordan 

 & Gilbert, op. c, 1881, pp. 232, 233, 274, 277 (Porto Escondido, Mex. ; La 

 Union, San Salvador; Guaymas ; Mulege, Lower Cal.); Goode & Bean, 

 op. c, 1882, 239 (Gulf of Mexico) ; Jordan & Gilbert, op. c, 1882, pp. 238, 

 374, 379, 088, 624 (Cape San Lucas, Colima, Panama, Charleston) ; Jor- 

 dan & Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 106, 109, 112 (Mazatlan, Pan- 

 ama, Punta Arenas) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis Fishes North Amer- 

 ica, 403, 1883 (Cape Cod to South America and Lower California) ; Poey, 

 Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, 1875, xi, 61, tab. 7 (Cuba) ; Poey, Enu- 

 meratio, 1875, 99; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884 (Key West). (Not 

 of Agassiz «fe Spix.) 



Mugil lineatus, Storer, Hist. Fishes Mass., 1867, 167, pi. 16, f. 4. {Not of Mitch- 

 ill.) 



Habitat. — Atlantic coast of America from Cape Cod to Brazil ; Pa- 

 cific coast of America from Magdalena Bay to Chili. 



