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MUGILID^. 



The upper anterior profile is nearly straight, obliquely descending. 

 The interorbital space is convex, one-half of the length of the head, 

 and.scaly, whilst the parts before the orbits are naked. The anterior 

 portion of the upper lip is extremely thick, conically protruding, and 

 nearly as long as the remainder of the snout. A narrow band of 

 soft papillae occupies the lower parts of the lips anteriorly and 

 laterally ; the papillse are arranged in oblique scries, having a pave- 

 ment-like appearance. The lower jaws are rather narrow, and the 





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M. proboscideus. 



cleft of the mouth is much longer than broad. The maxillary is 

 entirely hidden by the praeorbital, which has the extremity truncated 

 and minutely serrated. The eye is much shorter than the snout, and 

 in the present specimen, which apparently is a young one, one-fourth 

 of the length of the head. There are twenty-three scales between 

 the snout and the spinous dorsal fin. The latter commences somewhat 

 nearer to the base of the caudal than to the end of the snout : the 

 soft dorsal and the anal have series of small scales between the rays ; 

 the fortner is higher than the spinous dorsal, and commences above 

 the middle of the anal fin. Caudal emarginate ; the anal is rather 

 higher -than long, as high as the soft dorsal. The pectoral is inserted 

 above the middle of the depth of the body, and its length is four-fifths 

 of that of the head. 



Silvery, upper parts greenish ; dark stripes along the series of 

 scales. 



66. Mugil corsula. 



Buck Ham. Fish. Gang. pp. 221, 381. tab. 9. fig. 97; Cuv. 8f Vol. xi. 

 p. 119; Bleek. Vei'hand. Batae. Getiootsch. xxv., Bengal, en Hindost. 

 p. 101 ; Bgd. <^ Sotd. Voy. Bonite, Zool. i. p. 172. pi. 4. fig. 2. 



D. 4 ||. A. |-. L. lat. 52. L. transv. 15. Caic. pylor. 2. 



The snout is flat, rounded, prominent, with the upper part pro- 

 jecting beyond the mouth, which is entirely at the lower side of the 

 head. Head flat superiorly, elongate, triangular; the eyes are rather 

 small and somewhat directed upwards, and the space between them 

 is nearly one-sixth of the longtli of the head ; nostrils on the side of 

 the snout, below the cunthus rostralis. The height of the body is 



