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d~. Mandibular angle obtuse ; the cleft of mouth three times as 

 broad as deep ; origin of spinous dorsal nearer to base of 

 caudal than tip of snout troscheli, g. 



6. Liza formosae Oshima, sp. nov. (Plate XII, fig. 2.) 

 Taiwan-menada (Japan). 



1865. Mugil suppositus Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 143 ; Seas of Malabar and 

 Malaysia; Cochin (not of Gunther). 



Head 3.64 in length; depth S-33; D. IV-2, 7; A. Ill, 9; P. 16; V. I, 

 5; width of head 1.50 in its length; snout 2-37; interorbital space 2; 

 eye 4.28; first dorsal spine 2.23; first dorsal ray 1.64; third anal spine 

 3.50; first anal ray 1.75; least depth of caudal peduncle 2.23; forty 

 scales (thirty-nine scales on the right) in a lateral series from gill- 

 opening above to caudal base, three more scales on the latter ; thirteen 

 scales in a transverse series from the vent upward and backward to 

 soft dorsal ; about twenty predorsal scales. 



Body oblong, rather high, slightly compressed posteriorly; dorsal 

 and ventral profiles equally convex; head broad, rounded anteriorly; 

 a slight ridge from the upper surface of orbit to the pectoral base; 

 interorbital space more or less convex, rather broad ; snout short, not 

 truncated in front ; mouth subinf erior, transverse, the cleft four tiines 

 as broad as deep, its angle reaching a vertical through the posterior 

 nostril; mandibular angle markedly obtuse; upper jaw rounded, a 

 little longer than the lower, with a depression in its inner center, 

 receiving a knob on the lower jaw; upper lip fleshy, lower lip thin, 

 distinct only at the angle of mouth ; isthmus extremely narrow, elon- 

 gate ; no teeth in the lips ; extremity of maxillary entirely hidden ; 

 both the anterior and lower edges of pre-orbital denticulated; eye 

 rather small, anterior, with no adipose eyelid; nostrils separated, 

 anterior nostril a single pore in a short tube, posterior nostril slit- 

 like, midway between the former and orbit above. 



Head and body covered with uniform cycloid scales, those on the 

 top of head somewhat larger and irregular; outer margin of each 

 scale rounded ; a fine longitudinal groove on all the scales, except 

 those on head ; a scaly flap along the base of spinous dorsal sharply 

 pointed, elongate, extending backward beyond the base of the fin; 

 pectoral and ventral with a sharply pointed scaly flap; a broad scaly 



