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of the head. The snout is rather broad, shorter than the eye, the 

 upper lip being moderately tliick, truncated, and forming its front 

 margin. The anterior margins of the two mandibulary bones form 

 an obtuse angle, and the cleft of the mouth is thrice as broad as it is 

 deep. The free space at the chin, between the mandibles, is narrow, 

 elongate, lanceolate ; the maxillary is entirely hidden ; the prae- 

 orbital with a notch anteriorly, and with the extremity truncated. 

 There are eighteen scales between the snout and the dorsal. The 

 pectoral is as long as the head, the length of the snout not included, 

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

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

 elongate scale in its axil. The spinous dorsal commences nearer to 

 the tail than to the extremity of the snout, above the tenth scale of 

 the lateral line. The second dorsal commences above the twentieth 

 scale, or above the middle of the anal fin ; both fins are scaleless. 

 Dorsal and anal fins are of equal height, much lower than the tail 

 between them. Caudal emarginate, black-edged. 

 Port Jackson. South Australia, 



a. South Australia. From Mr. Dring's Collection. 



13. Mugil sundanensis. 



Mugil sundanensis, Bleek. Sumcdra, ii. p. 265 ; Atl. 3Iugil. tab.l. fig. 1 ; 



Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. vi., Borneo, xiii. p. 45. 

 brachysoma, Bleek. Java, iii. p. 399. 



D. 4 ||. A. i-. L. lat. 30-32. 



The height of the body is contained four times and a sixth or four 

 times and two-fifths in the total length, the length of the head five 

 times ; the least depth of the tail is more than one-half the length 

 of the head. The adipose eyelid is well developed. Snout convex, 

 as long as the eye. The proeorbital has a very distinct notch ante- 

 riorly, and does not cover the end of the maxUlaiy ; upper hp rather 

 thick. Pectoral shorter than the head ; the anterior half of the anal 

 fin falls before the vertical from the origin of the dorsal ; caudal 

 emarginate, black-edged. {Bl.) 



East Indian Archipelago. 



14. Mugil strongylocephalus. 



Richards. Ichth. China, p. 249. 



D. 4 I 4-. A. ^. L. lat. 33. L. transv. 11. 



The height of the body is contained four times and two-thirds in 

 the total length, the length of the head five times ; the least depth 

 of the tail is one-half or rather less than one-half the length of the 

 head. Eye with a broad achpose membrane anteriorly and posteriorly. 

 The interorbital space is very convex, and its width is two-fifths of 

 the length of the head. The snout is obtusely conical, shorter than 

 the eye, with the upper lip moderately thick, and situated obliquely 



