252 Annals of the Carnegd!: Museum. 



flap between ventral bases; basal part of pectoral, soft dorsal, anal, 

 and caudal fins covered with minute scales. 



Origin of spinous dorsal midway between tip of snout and base of 

 caudal, rather tiny, its first three spines subequal in length, inserted 

 close together, the third somewhat shorter, the fourth spine much 

 weaker and shorter; soft dorsal inserted much nearer to spinous 

 dorsal than base of caudal, the distance between two dorsals equal 

 the length of anterior margin of soft dorsal; anal slightly in advance 

 of the origin of soft dorsal, third spine half as long as the first ray, 

 the last ray divided into two ; upper margin of pectoral in the upper 

 third of body, shorter than the head, scarcely teaching the origin of 

 spinous dorsal; ventrals rather short, extending midway to vent; 

 caudal fin forked in its posterior third. 



Color in alcohol dusky gray above, whitish and silvery below ; body 

 with longitudinal stripes along the series of scales; first and second 

 dorsals, caudal, anal, and pectoral yellowish, minutely dotted with 

 black ; ventral whitish ; a black speck superiorly at the base of pectoral. 



Total length 126 mm. 



Type: Described from a single specimen from Anpin. collected by 

 M. Watanabe on Nov. 6, 1919, and preserved in the Carnegie IMuseum, 

 Cat. of Fishes, No. 8283. 126 mm. (M. Watanabe, Coll.) 



Habitat: Anpin near Tainan. 



Remarks: In the year 1865 Francis Day described a small mullet 

 from the Seas of Malabar under the name Mugil suppositus in his 

 paper entitled " The Fishes of Malabar." It is quite different, how- 

 ever, from Giinther's .1/. suppositus, because the latter is provided 

 with eight anal rays, the last of which is split to its base, while the 

 form under consideration has nine soft rays, the last of which is 

 distinctly divided into two at the base. 



The present species is identical with Day's M. suppositus, distinctly 

 differing from the form so named by Giinther in having the maxillary 

 entirely covered by the pre-orbital and nine soft dorsal rays. It is 

 necessary, therefore, to give a new name to it. Day's M. suppositus 

 being regarded as identical. 



