1. MTTGIL. 



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from the dorsal fin than to the base of the pectoral. Shining stripes 

 along the series of scales. 



Fresh waters of the Cape of Good Hope. 



a. Twenty-one inches long : stnifed. Cape. From Sir A. Smith's 



Collection. 



b. Half-grown. Cape. — ^The upper lip of this specimen is slightly 



villose, as is shown in the woodcut. 



c. d. Adult and half-grown : stuffed. Cape. 



e. Young. Cape. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



/. Adult : stuffed. From the Collection of the East India Company. 



4. Mugil cephalotus. 



?Renard, i. pi. 2. fig. 10; Vaktit. p. 458. no. 356. 



Mugil our, Forsk. p. xiv. no. 109. var. y; Rupp. N. W. Fische, 



p. 131. 

 cephalotus, Cuv. Sf Val. xi. p. 110 (not synon.) ; Cant. Ann. Sf 



Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 1842, p. 484 (not Catal. Mai. Fishes); ? Eyd. i^ 



Sotd. Voy. Bonite, Zool. i. p. 175. pi. 4. fig. 4 (^bad). 

 japonicus, Schley. Faun. Japnn. Poiss. p. 134. pi. 72. fig. 1 (bad) ; 



Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 247; Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. 



XXV., Japan, p. 41. 

 macrolepidbtus, Richards, Ichth. Chin. p. 249 (not auct.). 



D. 4 



L. lat. 38-40. L. transv. 14-15. 



8 • ^^' (7) 8* 



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

 and one-fifth of the total. The snout is moderately broad, the width 

 of the interorbital space being con- 

 tained twice and a half to twice and 

 four-fifths in the length of the head. 

 Eye with a broad adipose membrane. 

 The nostrils are at some distance 

 from each other, the posterior being 

 in the middle between the anterior 

 and the orbit. Lips thin ; the prae- 

 orbital covers entirely the maxillary. 

 The cleft of the mouth is not twice 

 as broad as it is deep. The space 

 at the chin, between the mandibu- 

 laries, is broadly lanceolate ; the 

 angle made by the anterior margins 

 of the mandibles is a right one. The 

 length of the anterior dorsal spines 

 is rather more than one-half of 

 that of the head ; they occupy the 

 middle of the distance between 

 snout and root of the caudal. 



There are twenty-one scales between the snout and the spinous 

 dorsal fin ; the eighth, the tenth or eleventh, the twenty-second or 

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

 the pectoral fin and to the origin of the two dorsals. The root of the 



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M. cephalotus. 



