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mination of a single specimen. MM. Cuvier and Valenciennes, however, state, 
in the 10th volume of their Histoire, the number of the vertebrz in that 
species to be only forty-three. I have also lately obtained the fin-formula 
of another specimen, and ascertained the smoothness of the tongue to be constant 
in several more of the Maderan fish. The strongest grounds for its specific 
distinction from the old-established species are, that the only specimen ex- 
amined as to these two points had six vertebre more, and one branchiostegous 
ray less, than L. guttatus, Retz, is described to possess. It may, however, pos- 
sibly prove identical with L. guttatus of Nilsson and Faber, which had also only 
six branchiostegous rays. 
Fam. Mue1.ipz. 
Atherina presbyter, Cuv. & Val.—‘‘ Guelro,”’ Cuv. & Val. x. 439. 
The Atherine, or Sandsmelt, Yarr.i.214. Vulgatiss. 
It is a curious fact that the Atherine of the Canaries is, according to MM. Cu- 
vier and Valenciennes, a different species from that of Madera, viz. the true 
A. hepsetus, L. 
Mugil chelo, Cuv.—‘‘ Tainha da moda,” Cuv. R. An. ii. p. 232. Cuv. & Val. Hist. xi. p.50. 
M. cephalus, Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. 329. t. 66. No. 158. 
M. labrosus, Risso, Hist. Nat. iii. 389. No. 304. 
The Thick-lipped Grey Mullet, Yarr. i. 207. 
IstD. 4; 2nd1+8;A.34+9;P.1417;V.1+5;C. 
Rarior. 
This fish is altogether more slender and shapely than the next species; but 
is at once distinguished by its perfectly smooth and even upper lip, which is 
also smaller and thinner than in M. corrugatus, and has the edge very di- 
stinctly ciliated. The suborbitaries are more slender, narrow, and strongly cre- 
nulated, but not notched, yet showing just the ends of the maxillaries when the 
mouth is closed. Several scales above the axil of the pectoral fins are more 
pointed than the rest, but not enlarged or elongated. 
Mugil corrugatus, nob.—‘‘ Tainha.” 
M. labro superiore lato, crassissimo, antice corrugato : intermawillarium extremitatibus, 
ore clauso, conspicuis: suborbitariis subemarginatis, minutissime crenulatis : fora- 
minibus nasalibus approximatis. 
3v.4+1+4 VI. 
3v.4+1+4 VI’ M.B. 6; Vert. 24. 
a AVS +TH VI, 
IstD.4;2nd1+8;A.3+9;P.14+17;V.1+4+5; Ci Sie M.B. 6; Vert. 24. 
Vulgatiss. 
There is no enlarged or pointed scale above the pectoral fin, or adipose veil 
at the fore and hinder edge of the orbit, in this species, which is the common 
‘‘ Tainha,” simply so called, or Gray Mullet of the island. The ends of the 
