1. MUGIL. 439 



31. Mugil curtus. 



Yarr. Brit. Fishes, i. p. 210, 2nd edit. i. p. 245, 3rd edit. ii. p. 186 ; 

 Cuv. ^ Val. xi. p. 70. pi. 311. 



"We have not been able to find the tyj^ical specimen in the collec- 

 tion left by YarrcU ; it is said to have been two inches lone/, and to 

 have been caught in Poole Harbour ivitJi the young of the common Grey 

 Mullet. The depth of its body was equal to the length of the head and 

 one-fom'th of the total, and the soft anal rays were eight in number. 



Valenciennes believed that he recog-nized a species thus charac- 

 terized in another single specimen eight inches in length caught in 

 the Bale do la Sommo. But it is very suspicious that he does not 

 give a full description of it, as he has of the other European species. 

 He merely confii-ms YarreU's statement of the proportions of the 

 body ; and although he gives also the same number of anal rays in 

 the formula of the fins, the figure shows nine. It is, therefore, im- 

 possible to form a correct idea as to the validity of the characters of 

 this species. 



32. Mugil capito. 



The Grey MiiUet. Cefalo calamita (Rome) ; Caiistello (Venice) ; 



Bouri (Eg^-pt). 

 Mugil, Artcdi, Genera, p. .32, Species, p. 71 ; Gronov. Zooplnjl. no. 397. 

 Meuilie blanc, Ditham. Peches, ii. sect. 6. p. 147. pi. 11. fig. 3. 

 MugU capito, Cuv. Rhpie Anini. ; Bonap. Faun. Ital. Pesc. ; Cm: Sf 



Val. xi. p. 36. pi. 308 ; Jen. Vert. An. p. 374 ; Parn. Wern. Mem. 



vii. p. 225. t. 28, cop. from Cuv. i-V Val, and Fishes Frith of Forth, 



p. 65, cop. from Jenijns ; Yarr. Brit. Fishes, i. p. 200, 2ncl edit. i. 



p. 234, 3rd edit. ii. p. 175 ; Niks. Skand. Faun. iv. p. 176 ; Guichen. 



Explor. Alger. Poiss. p. 67. 



cephalus, var. A, Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 344. 



ramada, Risso, Eur. 3Ierid. iii. p. 390. 



cephalus, Donov. Brit. Fishes, i. pi. 16; Neill, Wern. Mem. i. 



p. 544 ; Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 106 ; Flem. Brit, An. p. 217j Gronov. 



Si/st. ed. Gray, p. 162. 

 britannicus, Hancock, Lond. Quart, Journ. Sc. 1830, p. 129. 



D. 4 I 4-. A. I-. L. lat. 45. L. transv. 14. Ctec. pylor. 6-7. 

 Vert. 12/12. 



The height of the body is contained five 

 times or five times and one-third in the 

 total length, the length of the head four 

 times and a half. The snout is broad and 

 depressed; the interorbital space slightly 

 convex, its width being contained t\vice 

 and a half or twice and two-thii-ds in the 

 length of the head. The angle made by 

 the two mandibulary bones is rather ob- 

 tuse ; the prseorbital has an obtuse longi- 

 tudinal ridge, and does not entirely cover 

 the maxillaiy bone. Eyes without adipose ' '^^P"°- 



membrane : nostrils close together ; they are less distant from each 

 other than the posterior is from the eye. The lips are not covered by 



