Oshima: Fishes of the Family Mugilid.e. 247 



Watanabe. In Carnegie Museum. C. M. Cat. of Fishes, No. 8281. 

 Labeled " Type Specimen." Coll. M. Oshima. 



Habitat: Anpin near Tainan (two specimens) ; Kwaren River at 

 Kada, Kwarenko (three specimens). 



Remarks: The present species is closely related to Mugil argenteus 

 from South Australia, differing from it in having the extremity of 

 the maxillary extremity exposed; sixteen predorsal scales; the spinous 

 dorsal inserted midway between tip of snout and caudal base. 



The figure is taken from a specimen from the Kwaren River, which 

 measured 196 mm, in total length. 



4. Mugil carinatiis (F.hrenberg) Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 Sesuji-bora (Japan) ; Tawah (Formosa). 



1830. Mugil carinatus (Ehrenberg) Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 



Poiss., XI, p. 148; Red Sea.— Day, Fish. Brit. India, 188S, Suppl., p. 800; 



Seas of India. — Oshima, Ann. Carneg. Mus., XII, 1919, Nos. 2-4, p. zyz; 



Shimo-Tamusui River; Taihoku. 



Head 4.01 in length, depth 4.51 ; D. IV-2, 7; A. Ill, 9; P. 15; V. I, 

 5; width of head 1.70 in its length; eye 4.50; interorbital space 2.73; 

 snout 4.00; first dorsal spine 2.18; first dorsal ray 2.00; third anal 

 spine 4.28; first anal ray 2.18; least depth of caudal peduncle 2.18; 

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

 base, three more larger ones on the latter; eleven scales in a trans- 

 verse series from the vent upward and backward to soft dorsal ; 

 twenty-eight predorsal scales. 



Body oblong, elongate, slightly compressed posteriorly ; curvature 

 of dorsal profile weaker than that of the ventral; median dorsal line 

 keeled in front of and behind the spinous dorsal; head subconiform, 

 pointed anteriorly, its top more or less convex ; snout narrow and 

 pointed; interorbital space slightly convex; mouth subinferior, nearly 

 horizontal, its angle reaching a vertical through the posterior nostril ; 

 cleft of mouth more than two times as broad as deep ; mandibular 

 angle obtuse, two small pores on either side beneath; upper jaw pro- 

 truding beyond the lower; upper lip thick, fleshy; lower lip thin, with 

 sharp edge ; symphysis of the mandibular bones forming a small knob, 

 which fits into a depression on the roof of the upper jaw; extremity 

 of maxillary exposed; lower end of pre-orbital finely serrated; no 

 teeth, except a series of microscopical ones along the outer edge of 



ANN. CAR. MUS., XIII. I? FEB. 21, 1922. 



