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longitudinal stripes along several rows of scales; pectorals, dorsals, 

 and caudal 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, and preserved in the Museum of 

 the Institute of Science, Formosa. C. M. Cat. of Fishes, No. 8256. 



Habitat: Probably our specimens (three) obtained at the Daitotei 

 Fish Market were captured at Tamusui near Taihoku. 



Remarks: I have little doubt that the present species is true M. 

 cephahis, because it agrees quite well with Mugil ccpliahis from Italy 

 in the Stanford University Collections. 



The common mullet of Japan, described by several authors under 

 the name Mugil cephalus, is distinct from the present species in hav- 

 ing a lower body and thirty-eight scales in a lateral series. As it also 

 differs from Mugil japonicus Temminck & Schlegel from Nagasaki, 

 covered with ctenoid scales instead of cycloid scales, it is reasonable 

 to give a new name to the former. 



2. MugU japonicus Temminck & Schlegel. 

 Karasumi-bora (Japan) ; Oahii (Formosa). 



1846. Mugil japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. .134, 

 PI. -jz, Fig. i; Nagasaki. — Richardson, Ichth. China, 184^, p. 247; China. 

 — Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., XXV, 1853, p. 41; Japan; Act. Soc. Sc. Indo- 

 Neerl.. VIII, i860, p. 59; Borneo; Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk., IV, 1873. p. 143; 

 China; Verh. Akad. Amsterdam, XVIII, 1879, p. 17; Japan. 



19 II. Mugil cephalus Tanak.\ (not of Linn^us), Fishes of Japan, p. 50, PI. 

 XIII, Figs. 42-45; Japan (one part). — Jordan, Snyder, & Tanaka, Journ. 

 Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXIII, 191 3. p. 113; Japan (one part). 



1903. Mugil oeur Jordan & Evermann (not of Forskal), Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., XXV, p. 332; Taihoku, Formosa. — Jordan & Richardson, Mem. 

 Carneg. Mus., IV, 1909, No. 4, p. 176; Giram, Keelung, Taihoku. — Oshima, 

 Ann. Carneg. Mus., XII, 1919, Nos. 2-4, p. 270; Formosa. 



Head 4.00 in length; depth 4.90; D. IV-i. 8; A. III. 8; P. 16; V. I, 

 5; width of head 1.50 in its length; eye 4.47; snout 3.24; interorbital 

 space 2.08; first dorsal spine 2.28; first dorsal ray 1.92; third anal 

 spine 3.65; first anal ray 1.92; least depth of caudal peduncle 2.71; 

 thirty-eight scales in a lateral series from gill-opening above to caudal 

 base and three more large ones on the latter ; thirteen scales in a 



