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MUGILID.^i. 



below the front edge of the snout. The maxillary is bent down- 

 wards behind the angle of the mouth, a narrow portion of its ex- 

 tremity remaining visible when the 

 mouth is closed ; prteorbital slightly 

 emarginate anteriorly. The angle 

 made by the anterior margins of the 

 mandibulary bones is nearly a right 

 one ; the cleft of the mouth is more 

 than twice as broad as it is deep ; the 

 mandibles cover nearly entirely the 

 chin, leaving between them only a 

 very short lanceolate free space. There 

 are eighteen scales between the snout 

 and the spinous dorsal ; the tenth or 

 eleventh and the twenty-first scales 

 of the lateral line correspond to the 

 origin of the dorsal fins. The pectoral 

 is longer than the head, the length of 

 the snout not included, and extends 

 to, or slightly beyond, the origin of 

 the dorsal ; it is inserted somewhat 

 above the middle of the depth of the 

 body, and has a long pointed scale in 

 its axil. The anterior third of the 

 anal fin falls before the commencement 

 of the opposite dorsal fin ; both are scaly ; 

 Chinese Sea. 



a. Type of the species. Hongkong. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 

 b-c, d, e, f-h, i, Tc. Half-grown and young. China. 



I am well aware of several differences between Sir J. Richardson's 

 and my descriptions, and observe that both are taken from one and 

 the same typical specimen. 



M. strongylocephalus. 

 caudal emarginate. 



15. Mugil parsia. 



Mugil parsia, Buch, Ham. Fish. Ganq. p. 215. pi. 17. fig. 71 ; Cwr. «§• 

 Vol. xi. p. 144 ; (not Bleek.). 



D. 4 



L. lat. 35. L. transv. 12. 



The greatest depth of the body is below the origin of the first 

 dorsal, and contained four times and a half in the total length, or 

 once and four-fifths in the distance of the snout from the dorsal ; 

 the length of the head is one-fifth of the total. The least depth 

 of the tail is a little more than one-half the length of the head. 

 Snout short, broad, depressed, with the anterior margin acute, the 

 upper lip being quite at its lower surface. The interorbital space is 

 slightly convex, its width being contained twice and three-fourths 

 in the length of the head. Lips thin ; the maxillary is bent down- 

 wards behind the angle of the mouth, its extremity not being covered 



