812 Bullcii?i 42, United States National Museum. 



all miller one head as Mugil ccphalus. The species has, however, not been 

 recorded from Cuba. {Cephalus, Cefalo, an old name from Kf<paXT/, 

 head.) (Eu.) 



3lii(jil rephaliis, IjINN.t-;us, Systema Natunr, Ed. x, 31(5, 175S, Europe ; based ou Artkbi. 



Mmjil idhiila, Linn^us, Syst. K-at., Ed. xii, 520, ITliii, Charlecton. (Coll. Pr. Garden.) 



Mugil liuhj, Bi.ocn, Ichthyologia, plate 395, 1794, Africa. 



Miiijil 2iUi>iiieri, Blocii, I. c, plate 39G, 1794, St. Vincent ; on a drawing by Pi.umier. 



Mtiijil Uwnlttx, MiTCUiLi. MS., CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 9C, 1836, New 



York. 

 Mugil raiiimelsbcrgii, TscHUDi, Fauna Peruana, Ichtby., 20, 1845, Peru. 

 Mugil h<rlamUcri,GinATiJ>, V. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., 20, plate 10, fJRs. 1 to 4, 1859, St. 



Joseph's Island, Indianola ; Brazos Santiago ; Brazos; and Galveston; all ou coast 



of Texas. (Coll. Wiirdemaun, Clark, and Kennerly.) 

 Mugil giinlheri, GiLL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18fi3, 169, western coast of Central 



America; not of Steindachner. 

 3Tugil mcxiranus, Steindachner, Ichthyol. Beitrage, in, 59, 187.5, Acapulco. 

 Mugil atbula, Jordan & Gilijert, Synopsis, 403, 1883. 

 Mugil cephalnx, .Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 263. 



1184. MUr.IL INCILIS, Hanrock. 

 (Trench Mullet.) 



Head 4^ ; depth 4i. D. IV-I, 8 ; A. Ill, 9 ; scales 42 to 44-15, 23 before 

 the dorsal. Snont moderately broad, scarcely convex, with the 

 lower iirofile ascending in the same degree as the upper descends ; the 

 teeth very small, slender; interorbital space slightly convex, its width 21 in 

 length of head. Upper lip rather thin ; the angle made by the two 

 mandibulary bones a right one; the preorbital tapers posteriorly, has 

 the anterior margin finely serrated, and covers the maxillary so that only 

 a very narrow portion of it is visible on the side of the snout. Adipose 

 eyelids large. The space of the chin, between the mandibles and inter^ 

 opercles is elongate cuneiform. Soft dorsal and anal fins scaly. Second 

 dorsal spine slightly longer than the first, and more than half length of 

 head ; pectoral short, reaching tenth scale, not quite reaching dorsal ; 

 fins scarcely falcate ; caudal deeply emarginate. Silvery ; axil blackish ; 

 sides without dark stripes along the rows of scales. (Giinther.) 

 Brackish waters from Rio Chagres to ParA and Bahia ; common, (hicilis, 

 pertaining to a ditch.) 



3rngil iiicilis, Hancock, Quart. Joum. Sci., 1830, 127, Guiana ; GCnther, Fishes Gentr. 



Amor., 1869, Jordan & Swain, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 200. 

 Mugil giinihei-i, Steindachner, Ichth. Notizen, i, 12, 18G4, British Guiana. 



1185. MUGIL THOBURM, Jordan & Starks, new species. 



Head 3i to 3| ; depth 4 ; dorsal IV-7 ; anal III, 9 ; scales 44-15 ; orbit 

 equal to snout, 4i in head ; uncovered part of eye 8 or 9 in head ; inter- 

 orbital 2A; first dorsal spine 2; soft dorsal and anal equal, the longest 

 ray 2i ; ventrals 2 in head ; pectoral If. Body moderately elongate ; a 

 very gentle curve from tip of snout to dorsal; ventral outline consider- 

 ably curved, the curve uniform from chin to caudal peduncle. Head 

 large, broadly rounded above ; eye moderate, with a large adipose eyelid; 



