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late, acutish posteriorly. Preorbital narrow, coveriDg little of maxillary. 

 Eyes bidden anteriorly and posteriorly by a broad adipose membrane. 

 Teeth wide-set ; larger than in the other species ; plainly visible in both 

 jaws, and about as long as the nostril. Scales large, about 21 from 

 origin of dorsal to tip of snout ; soft dorsal and anal densely scaled. 

 Soft dorsal concave ; the seventh ray shortest, 2f in second or longest 

 ray ; anal similar to soft dorsal. Pectoral not reaching nearly to front of 

 spinous dorsal. Caudal broad, forked. 



Color dusky olive above, with some bluish reflections; silvery below. 

 No dusky streaks along the rows of scales. A dark blotch at base of 

 pectoral. Dorsals and caudal pale, the former with very small dark 

 punctulatious. Caudal margined with blackish. Anal and ventrals 

 yellowish. Pectorals pale, finely punctulate with brown. 



This little mullet is very abundant at Key West, where it is known 

 as fan-tail mullet. At Cuba it is reported as rare by Poey. It has not 

 been noticed elsewhere. Numerous specimens, large and small, are in 

 our collection, none of them quite a foot in length. 



The reasons for adopting for this species the name of brasiliensis in- 

 stead of that of trichodon are stated under Mugil curema. 



Measurements. 



