428 MUGILID.E. 



17. Mugil planiceps. 



Mu<>-il planiceps, Cuv. 8f Veil. xi. p. 122; Bleek. Verhand. Batac. 



Genootsch. xxv., Beiu/al. en Ilindust. p. 101, tab. 1. fi";. 5. 

 ? Mu<ril dussumieri, Cue. i^ Val. xi. p. 147. 

 Mupfil cephalotus, Cant. Catal. p. 95. 

 dussunneri, Bleek. Java, iv, p. 339 (not Journ. Ind. ArcJiipel. ii., 



Ichth. Sumhawa, p. 637). 



D. 4 U. A. ^. L. lat. 33-35. L. transv. 11. Cajc. pylor. 5. 



The greatest depth of the body is nearly equal to the length of 

 the head, and one-fifth of the total ; the depth of the body below the 

 origin of the spinous dorsal is contained twice and a third in the 

 distance of the snout from the dorsal fin. The least depth of the 

 tail is a little more than one- half of the length of the head. Snout 

 much dejjressed, broad, and not very short. The interorbital space 

 is quite flat, its width being contained twice and a third or t^vice 

 and a half in the length of the head. Lips thin ; the maxillarj' is 

 bent downwards behind the angle of the mouth, its extremity not 

 being covered by the prteorbital. The space at the chin, between 

 the mandibulary bones, is cuneiform. Eye with a narrow adipose 

 membrane, which does not extend on to the pupil. There are 

 twenty scales between the snout and the spinous dorsal. The 

 eighth, the tenth or eleventh, the twenty-second or twenty-third 

 scales of the lateral line correspond to the extremity of the pec- 

 toral and to the origin of the two dorsal fins. The soft vertical fins 

 scaly ; the origin of the dorsal is in the vertical from the third soft 

 anal ray. 



Coasts of Ceylon, Bengal, Hindostan, and Cliina. 



a. Fine specimen. Ceylon. Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 



h-i. Adult and half-grown: stuffed. Calcutta. — {M. macrops, 



Blyth,) 

 k-o. Adult and young : skins. Sea of Pinang, Types of Dr. Cantor's 



M. cephalotus. 

 p. Half-grown : stuffed. China. From the Collection of the East 



India Company. 

 q Half- grown. From the Haslar Collection. 



18. Mugil longimanus. 



Mugil cunnesius, Block. Banka, p. 454; Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. viii., 

 Sumatra, ix. p. 8 ; (not Cuv. Sf Val. or Cant.). 



D. 4 I -i-. A. |. L, lat, 35. 



The height of the body is contained four times and two-thirds 

 or five times in the total length, the length of the head five times 

 or five times and a fourth. The width of the interorbital space is 

 about one-half of the length of the head. Eye with an adipose 

 membrane anteriorly and posteriorly. Snout very convex, with 

 the upper lip rather thick. The maxillaiy is entirely hidden 

 when the mouth is closed. The two dorsal fins and the anal are 



