1. MUGIL. 



439 



31, Wjigjl curtus. 



Yarr. Brit. Fishes, i. p. 210, 2nd edit. i. p. 245, 3rd edit. ii. p. 186; 

 Cuv. (^ Vol. xi. p. 70. pi. 311. 



We have not been able to find the typical specimen in the collec- 

 tion left by Yarrell ; it is said to have been two inches long, and to 

 have been caught in Poole Harbour with the young of the common Grey 

 Mullet. The depth of its body was equal to the length of the head and 

 one-fourth of the total, and the soft anal rays were eight in number. 



Valenciennes beUeved that he recognized a species thus charac- 

 terized in another single specimen eight inches in length caught in 

 the Baie de la Somme. But it is very suspicious that he does not 

 give a full description of it, as he has of the other European species. 

 He merely confii-ms YaiTeU's statement of the proportions of the 

 body ; and although he gives also the same niunber of anal rays in 

 the formula of the fins, the figure shows nine. It is, therefore, im- 

 possible to form a correct idea as to the validity of the characters /of 

 this species. 



32. Mngil capito. 



The Grey Mullet. Cefalo calamita (Rome) ; Caustello (Venice) ; 



Boiui (Egv-pt). 

 Mugil, Artedi, Genera, p. 32, Species, p. 71 ; Gronoi\ Zoophyl. no. 397. 

 Meuille blanc, Duhatn. Peches, ii. sect. G. p. 147. pi. 11. fig. 3. 

 Mugil capito, Cuv. R^gne Atmn. ; Bonap. Faun. Ital. Pesc. ; Cuv. 8f 



Val. xi. p. 36. pi. 308 ; Jen. Vert. An. p. 374 ; Parn. Wern. Mem. 



vii. p. 225. t. 28, cop. from Cuv. ^ Val, and Fishes Frith of Fmth, 



p. 65, cop. from Jenyns ; Yarr. Brit. Fishes, i. p. 200, 2nd edit. i. 



p. 234, 3rd edit. ii. p. 175 ; Nilss. Skand. Faun. iv. p. 176 j Guichen. 



Explor. Alger. Poiss. p. 67. 



cephalus, var. A, Itisso, Ichth. Nice, p. 344. 



ramada, liisso, Fur. Merid. iii. p. 390. 



cephakis, Donov. Brit. Fishes, i. pi. 15; NeiU, Wern. Mem. i. 



p. 544 ; Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 106 ; Flem. Brit. An. p. 217; Gronov. 



Syst. ed. Gray, p. 162. 

 britamiicus, Hancock, Lond. Quart. Journ. Sc. 1830, p. 129. 



D. 4 ||. A. |-. L. lat. 45. L. transv. 14. Caic. pylor. 6-7. 

 Vert. 12/12. 



The height of the body is contained five 

 times or five times and one-third in the 

 total length, the length of the head four 

 times and a half. The snout is broad and 

 depressed ; the interorbital space slightly 

 convex, its width being contained twice 

 and a half or twice and two-thirds in the 

 length of the head. The angle made by 

 the two mandibulary bones is rather ob- 

 tuse ; the prseorbital has an obtuse longi- 

 tudinal ridge, and does not" entirely cover 

 the maxillary bone. Eyes without adipose 

 membrane : nostrils close together ; they are less distant from each 

 other than the posterior is from the eye. The lips are not covered by 



M. capito. 



