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under tho lii.st dorsal ray but two; rays of dorsal and anal all un- 

 braiK-hed, but articulated; pectoral short and l)road, its tip reachinjj^ 

 vent; ventrals absent; caudal broad and rounded. 



Color in alcohol, yellowish-brown, the side with about 8 V-shaped 

 imbricated dark crossbars, the apex pointing- forward; these crossbars 

 plainest posteriorly, more or less ])roken and irregular in front; a large, 

 round, black ocellus on caudal peduncle at base of caudal tin as larg-e 

 as eye, bordered by white; side of head with two broad, dark ])ars 

 extending- from eye to posterior edge of opercle; dorsal tin punctulate 

 but with about 2 series of rather distinct white spots on the membrane, 

 extending nearly full length of tin; anal tin plain, somewhat dusky at 

 edge; caudal and pectoral pale, slightly pun(;tulate. 



Ty2ye. — No. 5075, a specimen 5.25 inches long, from Sowo or Suwata, 

 Formosa, now numbered 7132 Stanford University Museum; others, 

 No. 26H, ar(» from Suwata. 



Family MUdlLID.F. 



59. MUGIL OEUR Forskil. 



( Mngil cep}ialoius Ouvier and Valenciennes. ) 



Several specimens, Nos. 5061, 5062 from Giran, 15SH from Keerun, 

 5067 from Taihoku, 377, 1064 (F. I.) from Formosa. 

 D. lV-1, 8; A. Ill, 8: scales 40,-12. 

 Dai'k streaks along scales more or less distinct. 



6o. LIZA TROSCHELI (Bleeker.) 



Head 4.1; depth 3.8; eye 3.75; snout 4.5; interorbital 2; D. IV-I, 

 8; A. II, 10; scales 30,-10; body rather short and stout, the back 

 gently and regularly arched from tip of snout to origin of spinous 

 dorsal; head small, triangular, the interorbital broad and flat; eye 

 rather large, snout short, the adipose eyelid small; teeth small but 

 visible to the naked eye; sides of lower jaw meeting in a broad angle; 

 lips thin; bare space between dentary bones club-shaped, broadest 

 anteriorly, the subopercles overlapping below; pectoral broad and 



