420 MXTGILIDJE. 



pectoral is above the middle of the body, and that of the ventral 

 midway between base of the pectoral and spinous dorsal. Shining 

 stripes along the scries of scales. 



Red Sea. Coast of Pondicherry. Chinese and Japanese Seas. 



a. Adult. Amoy. 



h, c, d, e. Adult and half-grown. China. 



/. Adult. China. Presented by Sir J. Eichardson as M. macrolepi- 



dotus. 

 g. Adult : stuffed. China. Presented by J. K. Reeves, Esq. 

 h. Half-grown, Chusan. Presented by the East India Compauj . 

 i, h, I, m. Adult and half-grown. From the Haslar Collection. 

 «. Half-grown : skeleton. Chusan. Px'osented by the East India 



Company. 



The woodcut is taken from specimen a. 



5. Mugil rammelsbergii. 



Mugil rammelsbergii, Tschudi, Faun. Pcruan. lehthyol. p. 20. 



liza, Gay, Hist. Chil. Zool. ii. p. 256. lam. 4 h. fig. 2 (not 



g-ood). 



D. 4 ||. A. |. L. lat. 40. L. transv. 13. 



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

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

 of the interorbital space being two-fifths of the length of the head. 

 Eye with a broad adipose membrane. Th-e nostrils are at some 

 distance from each other, the posterior being somewhat nearer to the 

 orbit than to the anterior. Lips thin ; the praDorbital 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 mandibularies, is broadly 

 lanceolate. The angle made by the anterior xaargins of the mandi- 

 bles is a right one. The length of the anterior dorsal spines is 

 rather less than one-half the length of the head ; they stand some- 

 what iicaror to the end of the snout than to the base of the taU. 

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

 dorsal fin ; the ninth, the twelfth, and the twenty-fifth 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 pectoral is above the 

 middle of the body, and that of the ventral midway between base 

 of the pectoral and spinous dorsal. 



Months of May andOctober on the coast of the island of S. Lorenzo 

 (Tschudi). Coast of Chile. 



a. Half-grown. Chile. From Mr. Bridges' Collection. — ' Muohuto.' 



6. Mugil dobula. 

 I). 4 1|. A. |. L. lat. 40-42. L. transv. 14. 



Eyes with a broad adipose membrane ; the maxillary is nearly 

 entirely hidden by the prieorbital ; the angle made by the anterioi 



