420 MtTGILIDiE. 



pectoral is above the middle of the body, and that of the Ventral 

 midway between base of the pectoral and spinous dorsal. Shining 

 sti'ipes along the series of scales. 



lied Sea. Coast of Pondicheriy. Chinese and Japanese Seas. 



a. Adult. Amoy. 



b, c, d, e. Adiilt and half-groNvn. Cliina. 

 /. Adult. China. Presented by Sir J. llichardson as M. macrolepi- 



dotus. 

 ff. Adult : stuffed. China. Presented by J. R. Beeves, Esq. 

 h. Half-gro-mi. Chusan. Presented by the East India Company. 

 i, 1-, I, m. Adult and half-grown. From the Haslar Collection. 

 n. Half-grown: skeleton. Chusan. Presented by the East India' 



Company. 



The woodcut is taken from specimen a. 



5. Mugil rammelsbergii. 



Mugil rammelsbergii, Tsclmdi, Faun. Perttan. Ichtlujol. p. 20. 



liza, Gay, Hist. Chil. Zool. ii. p. 250. lam. 4 6. fig. 2 (not! 



good). 



D. 4 ||. A.-|. L. lat. 40. L. transv. 13. 



The height of the body is nearly equal to the length of the head,! 

 and one-fifth of the total. The snout is moderately broad, the width! 

 of the interorbital space being two-fifths of the length of the head.' 

 Eye with a broad adipose membrane. The nostrUs are at some 

 distance from each other, the posterior beiag somewhat nearer to the 

 orbit than to the anterior. Lips thin ; the prasorbital covers entirely 

 the maxiUary. The cleft of the mouth is not twice as broad as it is 

 deep. The space at the chin, between the mandibularies, is broadly 

 lanceolate. The angle made by the anterior margins of the mandi- 

 bles is a right one. The length of the anterior dorsal spines is 

 rather less than one-half the length of the head ; they stand some- 

 what nearer to the end of the snout than to the base of the tail. 

 There are twenty-one scales between the snout and the spinous 

 dorsal fin ; the ninth, the twelfth, and the twenty-fifth scales of the 

 lateral line correspond to the extremity of the pectoral fin and to the 

 origin of the two dorsals. The root of the pectoral is above the 

 middle of the body, and that of the ventral midway between base 

 of the pectoral and spinous dorsaL 



Months of May and October on the coast of the island of S. Lorenzo . 

 (Tschudi). Coast of Chile. 



a. Half-grown. Chile. Prom Mr. Bridges' Collection. — ' Muehuto.' 



6. Mugil dobula. 



D. 4 ||. A. |. L. lat. 40-42. L. transv. 14. 



Eyes with a broad adipose membrane ; the maxillary is nearly 

 entirely hidden by the praeorbital ; the angle made by the anterior 



