4o2 JiroiLiD.'E. 



50. Mngil melinopterus. 

 Cur. ^- Val xi. p. 140. pi. 814. 



D. 4 U. A. 4- L. lat. 25. L. transv. 10. 



The height of the hody is contained fonr times and two-thirds in 

 the total length, the length of the head four times and one-third. 

 Head much longer than high ; the upper anterior profile is curved. 

 Interorhital space flat, broad, its width being nearly one-half of the 

 length of the head. Snout broad, obtuse, depressed, as long as the 

 eye. The upper lip is moderately thick, forming the front margin of 

 the snout. The cleft of the mouth is not quite three times as broad 

 as it is deep ; the free space at the chin, between the mandibles, is 

 short, narrow, lanceolate ; the angle made by the front margins of 

 the mandibles is obtuse. The pra^orbital is scaly, angularly bent, 

 and has the extremity truncated and serrated ; extremity of the 

 maxillary visible behind and below the angle of the mouth. Eye 

 without adipose membrane. The spinous dorsal commences nearer 

 to the base of the caudal fin than to the snout, above the ninth 

 scale of the lateral line ; its fii'st spine is considerably stronger and 

 longer than the second, its length being two-thirds of that of the 

 head. The soft dorsal is lower than the spinous, and than the tail 

 below, and commences above the sixteenth scale, or above the middle 

 of the anal fin. Caudal slightly emarginate. The anal is nearly as 

 high as the spinous dorsal, and scaly at the base, like the soft dorsal. 

 The pectoral is inserted a Httle above the middle of the depth of the 

 bodj-, and has no pointed scale in its axU ; it is shorter than the 

 head, the length of the snout not included. 



Vanicolo. Tonga Islands. 



a, b-c. Half-gi'own and young. Tonga Islands. From the Haslar 

 Collection. 



51. Mugil decem-radiatus. 



; Mugil parsia, Sleek. Timor, p. 166 ; (not Buck. Ham.). 

 D. 4|-i. A.:^. L. lat. 40-45. 



The height of the body is nearly equal to the length of the head, 

 and contained four times and a half or five times in the total leng-th. 

 Eye without adipose membrane ; the snout convex, obtuse, shorter 

 than the eye ; lips thin ; the maxiUaiy is entirely hidden when the 

 mouth is closed. Caudal emarginate. Pectoral with a black spot 

 superiorly at the base. (Bl.) 



Coasts of Batavia and Timor. 



52. Mugil peronii. 

 Cuv. ^ Val. xi. p. 1.38. 



D. 4 I i-. A. ^. Cffic. pylor. 2. 

 The upper profile is straight ; snout longer than the eye ; the 



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