1. MUGIL. 423 



total length. Eyes with an adipose membrane ; head less broad 

 than in M. ceplialus ; forehead convex. The upper lip is thick, 

 without teeth or cilia, and appeai-s to be obliquely truncated below 

 the snout (" parait comme coui>ce obliquement sous le muscau "). The 

 pectoral is shorter than the head, and has a very long- and pointed 

 scale in its axil ; the second dorsal and the anal are scaly. Caudal 

 cmarginate. Pectoral blackish. 

 Vanicolo. 



9. Mugil liza. 



? Harder, Marcgr. p. 166. 



? Tarati, Marq'/r. p. 181. 



Querimau, Hancock in Loud. Quart. Journ. Sc. 1830, p. 125. 



Mugil liza, Ciiv. Sr Val. xi. p. 83 ; Jemjns, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, p. 80. 



D. 4 ||. A. |. L.lat. 32-35. L. transv. 13. Ciec. pylor. 2. 



The height of the body is one-sixth of the total length, the length 

 of the head one-fifth. The eye is hidden behind an adipose mem- 

 brane. The maxillaiy is entirely covered by the praeorbital. The 

 second dorsal and the anal fins are scaleless. 



Atlantic coasts of Tropical America. 



a-h. Adidt : stuffed and skin. West Indies. 



c. Adult : stuffed. British Guiana. Presented by Sir E. Schomburgk. 



10. Mugil subviridis. 



Cuv. ^- Val. xi. p. 115. 



D. 4 ||. A. |. L. lat. 30. L. transv. 11. 



The height of the body is contained four times and a half in the 

 total length, the length of the head five times and a third. Adipose 

 eyelids weU developed. The least depth of the tail is contained once 

 and two-thirds in the length of the head. The interorbital space is 

 flat, and its width is contained twice and a fourth in the length of 

 the head. Snout broad, obtuse, depressed, as 

 long as the eye ; its anterior margin is formed 

 by the upper lip, which is moderately thick. 

 The angle made by the anterior margins of the 

 mandibulary bones is very obtuse, and the cleft 

 of the mouth is at least thrice as broad as it is 

 deep. The free space at the chin, between the 

 two mandibles, is rather short, cuneiform. The 

 maxillary is bent downwards behind and below 

 the angle of the mouth, where its extremity is ^ 

 visible ; the praeorbital is angularly bent, with the .^ 



extremity subtruncated and denticulated. There 

 are eighteen scales between the snout and the spinous dorsal fin. The 

 pectoral is shorter than the head, the length of the snout not included, 

 and extends to the seventh scale of the lateral line ; it is inserted 

 above the middle of the depth of the body, and has no elongate 



