1. JJUGIL. 449 



upper lip thin ; no groove before the vomer. There are twenty-one ov 

 twenty-tAvo scales between the .snout an<t the lirst donsal fin ; a slioi-t 

 pointed scale in the axil. The least depth of" the tail is one-half, oi 

 leather more than one-half, of the length of the liead. The dorsal fins 

 are nearly- e(iual in heiglit ; the spines are strong : the first is the 

 strongest, and longer thaji the part of the head behind the orbit ; it 

 is much nearer to the base of the caudal fin than to the extremity 

 of the snout. The soft dorsal fin is nearly entirely scaly, much 

 higher than long: the anal fin is scaly,, and nearly wholly situ- 

 ated before the soft dorsal ; it is scarcely higher, but much longer, 

 than the soft dorsal : caudal fin emarginate, one-fifth of tlic total 

 length. Pectoral much longer than the pail of the head behind th.e 

 m-bit. Coloration unifonn, fins blackish towai'ds the margin ; iinal 

 generally with a whitish margin. (Bl.) 

 East Indian Archipelago. 



40. Mugil ceramensis. 



Bleelier, Cvram, ii. p. COO, nud^ie/. Sue. Sc. Imh-Xcilerl. vi., Bor/wo, 

 xiii. p. 48. 



D. 4 U. A. 4. L. lat. 29-30. L. transv. 9-10. 



The height of the body is contained four times and a fourth to four 

 times and a half in the total length, the length of the head four times 

 and two-thirds; The greatest dej)th of the head is two-third?; of its 

 length. Eyes without adipose membrane. JSnout much shorter than 

 the eye ; prajorbital slightly notched anteriorly ; niaxillaiy entirel}- 

 hidden ; upper lip thin. Pectorals shorter than the head ; the second 

 dorsal and anal scaly, the latter being situated nearly entirely before 

 the former ; caudal emarginate. {BI.) 



East Indian Archipelago. 



47. Mugil oligolepis. 



? Mujjil amarulus, Qtv. ^- Val. xi. p. 13:}. 



Mugil dussumiori, Blvvk. Contr. Ichth. Sionh. in Jouru. Iiid. Archlp. 



ii. p. 037 ; (not Nafimrk. Tijdschr. Kcdcrl. Lul. xiii. p. 330 ; not Cue. 



S>- VhI). 



macrolopis, Blcck. Borneo, vi. p. 422 ; (not Riipp. or Smith). 



oW^ole-^i^, Bleek. Nidmirk. Tijdseh: Nvdcrl. Ltd. 1858, xvi. p. 275, 



and Act. Soe. Se. Ltdo-Nederl. vi., Borneo, xiii. p. 40. 



D. 4 i JL. A. 4- L. lat. 20. L. transv. 10-11. 



I 8 9 



The height of the body is one-fourth, the length of the head one- 

 fifth of the total length ; the head is not much longer than high. 

 Eye not covered by an adipose membrane. Snout depressed, not 

 convex, shorter than the ej-e ; the maxillary is hidden Avhen the 

 mouth is closed ; the upper lip rather thick ; pra^orbital moderately 

 emarginate, denticulated. Pectorals nearly as long as the head; 

 caudal slightly emarginate. {Bl.) 



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