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Bull. IT. S. Bur. Fish., XXVI 1, 1908, p. 244; Calayan, p. i. — Snyder, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XLII, 1912, p. 416; Misaki; Tokyo.— Proc. U. S 

 Nat. Mus., XLII, 1912, p. 459; Okinawa. — Jordan, Snyder, & Tanaka, 

 Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXIII, 1913, p. 113; Hawaii; Tahiti; Atlantic 

 coast of the United States; Panama; Southern California; Red Sea; Mediter- 

 ranean; New Guinea; Nukahiva; Solomon Island. — Jordan & Metz, Mem. 

 Carneg. Mus., VI, no. 2, 1913, p. 26; Fusan, Corea. — Jordan & Thompson, 

 Mem. Mem. Carneg. Mus., VI, no. 4, 1914, p. 239; Matsushima; Osaka. 

 1855. Mugil soiuy Basilevvsky, Ichthyol. China, p. 226, PI. IV, Fig. 3; China. 



Head 3.86 in length; depth 4.42; D. IV, i, 8; A. Ill, 8; P. 17; V. I, 5; 

 width of head 1.55 in its length; eye 4.23 in head; interorbital space 2; 

 snout 3.5; forty-two scales in a lateral series, fifteen scales in an oblique 

 series between origin of dorsal and middle of belly, thirteen scales 

 between origins of dorsal and ventral. 



Body rather robust, elongate, somewhat compressed, dorsal profile 

 nearly straight, ventral profile broadly rounded; head rather small, 

 broad, its top flattened; snout short and obtuse, broadly rounded 

 anteriorly, interorbital space very broad, rather flat; mouth subin- 

 ferior, slightly oblique, its angle reaching a vertical through posterior 

 nostril; cleft of mouth half as deep as broad (between the angles of 

 mouth); lips thin; the angle between two mandibulary bones obtuse; 

 lower jaw shorter than the upper, outer edge rather sharp, with an 

 obtuse short median keel at the anterior part which fits into the cor- 

 responding concavity on the roof of upper jaw; teeth along the outer 

 edges of both jaws minute, scarcely visible without lens; eyes hidden 

 anteriorly and posteriorly by a broad adipose membrane; nostrils 

 separated, anterior nostril in a very short tube, posterior nostril slit- 

 like, in front of eye above. 



Dorsal fins well separated, origin of the spinous dorsal midway 

 between tip of snout and base of caudal, with a pointed scaly flap at 

 the base, length of the anterior spine 2.2 in head; soft dorsal inserted 

 behind the origin of anal, anterior ray longest; pectoral reaching 

 beyond the origin of ventral, not reaching the spinous dorsal, its 

 base above the middle of body; ventral a little nearer the root of 

 pectoral than the spinous dorsal; anal fin opposite the soft dorsal, 

 inserted in advance of the origin of the latter; caudal fin bifurcate; 

 depth of the caudal peduncle 2.66 in the length of head. 



Head and body covered with large cycloid scales, those on top of 

 head slightly enlarged; soft dorsal, anal, and pectoral with \ery few 

 scales; base of caudal covered with large scales. 



