1. MUGIL. 



457 



D. 4 



59. Mugil nigro-strigatus. 



A. |-. L. lat. 42. L. transv. 13-14. 



The upper lip is excessively thick, without transverse fold, and 

 with about seven series of small flat papillas on its inferior half ; the 

 lower lip has a broad membranaceous margin, notched in the middle, 

 but not ciliated. Body with about eleven brownish-black longitu- 

 dinal streaks. 



Hub. ? 



Borneo. Presented by Vice-Admiral Sir E. 

 St. Yinccnt's. Presented by the Lords of the 



a. Seven inches long. 



Belcher, K.C.B. 



b. Six inches long. 



Admiralty. 



Description. — The height of the body is contaiacd four times and 

 two-thirds in the total length, the length of the head five times. 

 The interorbital space is slightly 

 convex, its width being t\vice 

 and a fourth in the length of the 

 head. The snout is as long as, 

 or somewhat longer than, the 

 eye. The chin is nearly entirely 

 covered by the mandibles. The 

 prteorbital is tnmcated, not 

 notched, and does not cover the 

 extremity of the maxillary. The 

 pectoral is inserted nearly in the 

 middle of the depth of the body, 

 and is ■wdthout a pointed scale in 

 its axil ; it is not quite so long as the head, and extends to the 

 fourteenth scale of the lateral line. There are twenty-seven scales 

 between the snout and the spinous dorsal. The latter commences 

 midway between snout and base of the caudal, above the sixteenth 

 scale of the lateral line, the soft dorsal above the twenty-sixth, or 

 above the thii-d soft anal ray. The soft dorsal is not scaly, much 

 higher than long, and as liigh as the anal. Caudal emarginate. 

 Anal longer than the dorsal. 



The black stripes are produced by a series of spots, one always be- 

 longing to the cuticular fold, covering the base of a scale. 



I am inclined to think the statement of one of the specimens coming 

 from Borneo to be incorrect, and that the species is a native of the 

 coast of St. Vincent's, West Indies. 



M. nigro-strigatiis. 



60. MugU heterochiliis. 



Bleeker, Bafjan, ii. p. 198, and Act. Sue. Sc. Indo-Ncdei-l. vi., Celebes, 

 xiii. p. 57. 



D. 4 



A. 



L. lat. 40. L. transv. 12. 



The height of the body ctjuals the length of the head, and is onc- 

 fiith of the total. Eyes without adipose membrane. Snout obtuse. 



