1. MUGIL. 443 



30. Mugil saliens. 



Filzetta (Tuscany) ; Cefalo musiuo (Rome) ; Flaveton (Nice) ; Ver- 



zellata (Venice) ; Bouri (Nile). 

 MugU saliens, Jiisso, Ichth. Nice, p. 345, and Eur. 3Iert'd. iii. p. 391 ; 



Ct(v. i§- Val. xi. p. 47. pi. 309 ; Bona]). Faun. Ital. Pcsc. ; Nordm. 



in Demid. Voy. Huss. Merid, iii. p. 395 ; Guichen. Explor, Aluer. 



Poiss. p. 67. 

 Bouri, Soimini, Voy. Eg. ii. p. 206. pi. 23. fig. 2. 



D. 4 ||. A. J. L. lat. 45. L. transv. 15, Csec. pylor. 8. 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is con- 

 tained five times and a half in the total. The snout is moderately 

 broad, somewhat tapering anteriorly ; the width of the interorbital 

 space is one-thii'd of the length of the head. The angle made bytho 

 two mandibulary bones is a right one ; the prajorbital does not 

 entii'ely cover the maxiUary. Eyes without adipose membrane ; 

 nostrils close together, the posterior being in the middle between the 

 anterior and the orbit. Lips not very thick, not covered by the nasal 

 bones. The space at tha chin, between the mandibularies and the 

 interopercula, is elongate, tapeiing anteriorly. The two anterior 

 dorsal spines are half as long as the head ; the pectoral terminates at 

 some distance from the vertical from the origin of the dorsal, and its 

 root is somewhat above the middle of the body. Dark shining streaks 

 along the series of scales. 



Mediterranean. Nile. 



a. Half-grown. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



Valenciennes mentions another fish, from the Cape of Good Hope, 

 very similar to M. saliens, and calLs it Mugil ccqiensis (xi. p. 108). 

 Smith has recognized and figured this fish in lUustr. Zool. South 

 Africa, Pise. pi. 30. fig. 1. Both naturalists, however, have given so 

 scanty a description, that it is impossible to point out the character- 

 istic differences between 31. saliens and capensis. There is a stiiiFed 

 specimen of the latter in the British Museum, but (as is frequently 

 the case with stirffed fishes of this genus) the form of the head is so 

 greatly altered that no description can be taken from it. 



a. Adult : stuffed. Cape. From Sir A. Smith's Collection. 



h. Half-grown : veiy bad state. Cape. From the Haslar Collection. 



Miujil euronotus, Smith, lU. Zool. South Air. pi. 29. fig. 2, is entirely 

 identical with 31. capensis. 



c. Adult : stuffed. Cape. From Sir A. Smith's Collection. — Type 

 of 31. euronotus. 



37. Mugil multilineatus. 



Smith, Illustr. Zool. South Afr. Pise. pi. 30. fig. 2. 



D. 4 ||. A. |. L. lat. 46. L. transv. 15. 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is con- 

 tained four times and three-quarters in the total. The snout is 



