270 



Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Color in alcohol grayish above, lower parts silvery; sides with dark 

 longitudinal stripes along the rows of scales; pectorals, dorsals, and 

 caudal fin dusky; ventrals and anal whitish. 



Length of body 255 mm. 



Described from a specimen from Daitotei Fish Market, Taihoku, 

 collected by Oshima in March, 1917. 



Habitat: Taihoku (?) . A very common species in Formosa. 



Remarks: All the characters of the present species agree ciuite well 

 with those of M. cephaliis from Italy in the Stanford University Col- 

 lections. 



Measurements of Mugil cephaliis. 



1775- 



54. Mugil oeur Forskal. 



Mugil ocitr Forskal, p. XIV, No. 109. — Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 

 Philad., 1897, p. 70; Swatow, China. — ^Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 744; Yokohama. — Jordan & Evermann, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1903, p. 332; Taihoku, Formosa. — Jordan & Rich- 

 ardson, Mem. Carneg. Mus., IV, No. 4, 1909, p. 176; Giran; Keelung; 

 Taihoku, Formosa. 



Mugil cephalotus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, p. no; India. — 

 Gunther, Cat. Fish., Ill, 1861, p. 419; Red Sea; Coast of Pondicherry, 

 Chinese and Japanese Seas. — -Kner, Novara Fisch., II, 1865, p. 224; Manila. 



Mugil japonicus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. 134, PI. 72, Fig. i. — 

 Richardson, Ichthyol. China, 1846, p. 247; China. — Bleeker, Verh. 

 Batav. Genootsch., XXV, 1853, p. 41 



Mugil macrolepidotus Richardson, Ichthyol. China, p. 249; China. 



Mugil cephalus Jordan & Seale (not of Linnaeus), Proc. Davenport Acad. 

 Sc, X, p. 4; Hongkong. 



Head 3.6 in length; depth 4; D. IV, i. 8; A. Ill, 8; P. 16; V. I, 5; 

 width of head 1.58 in its length; eye 4 in head; interorbital space 2.64; 

 snout 3.75; thirty-nine scales in a lateral series, fifteen scales between 

 origin of the spinous dorsal and ventral. 



Body oblong, compressed posteriorly, dorsal and ^'entral profiles 

 ecjually arched; head rather small, its top very slightly convex; snout 



1836. 



1846. 



1846. 

 1905. 



i 



