1. MUGIL. 459 



short, obtuse, not depressed ; the interorbital sj^acc slightly convex, 

 its width being contained twice and a quarter in the length of the 

 head. The upper lip is very thick, and, like the lower, fringed ; the 

 two mandibulary bones do not leave a free space between them : the 

 priEorbital has a very distinct notch anteriorly ; its extremity is trun- 

 cated, and does not cover that of the maxillary. Eyes without adi- 

 pose membrane. There are twenty-one scales between the snout 

 and the spinous dorsal. The length of the anterior dorsal spines is 

 one-half of that of the head. The eleventh, the twelfth, and the 

 twenty-fourth scales of the lateral line correspond to the extremity 

 of the pectoral and to the origin of the two dorsal fins. Caudal 

 forked ; the second dorsal and the anal scaly. 

 Red Sea. 



a. Stuffed. One of Dr. Riippell's typical specimens. 



6 1. Mugil eirrhostoma. 



Mugil cirrhostoma, (ForsL) BI. Schn. p. 121 ; Cuv. ^' Vul. xi. p. 127. 

 pi. 312. 



D. 4 I -i. A. ^. L. lat. 30-35. 



The height of the body is contained four times and three-fourths 

 in the total length, the length of the head nearly six times. Lips 

 very tliick, the upper ■with nine or ten, the lower with two series of 

 short fleshy fringes. The prasorbital is not notched anterioiiy, and 

 scarcely deuticidated. Pectoral as long as the head ; the second dorsal 

 and anal scaly ; the caudal forked, ( Vol.) 



New Ireland. 



65. Mugil proboscideus. 

 D. 4 1|. A. A. L. lat. 38. L. transv. 14. 



The front part of the upper lip is extremely thick, conically pro- 

 duced ; the lower parts of both lips with a band of soft pavoment- 

 hke papiUaj, arranged in oblique series. Cleft of the mouth deeper 

 than broad. 



Coasts of Nicaragua. Pacific coast of Central America. 



a. Forty-five lines long. Island of Cordova. Presented by G. U. 



Skiuner, Esq. 

 h-m. Young. Island of Cordova. Presented by G. U. Skinner, Esq. 

 n. Four" inches long. West coast of Central America. Collected by 



Captain Dow ; presented by Dr. P. L. Sclater, Seer. Zool. Soc. 



Description. — This species is naturally more closely aUied to Afjo- 

 nostoma 2^^lcatlle than to Mugil, but differs from it in having no 

 teeth at aU in the jaws, except that in specimen n. the band of 

 pajjiUse passes into a series of fine moveable teeth anteriorly in the 

 upper jaw. The head and especially the body and tail are com- 

 pressed ; the greatest depth of the body nearly equals the length of 

 the head, and is contained four times and a half in the total length. 



