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margins; sometimes a black spot superiorly at the base of the 

 pectoral. Length 162 mm. [Not seen by us].' 



Habitat: Singapore ; Dutch South New Guinea (Regan). — 

 Red Sea, Gulf of Manar, Sea of Pinang, Malay Peninsula, 

 Tonkin. 



8. Mugil subviridis C.V. 



Mtigil std'vh-idis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. Poissons XI. 1836, p. 115. 



Mugil subviridis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859 — -1861, p. 423. 



Mugil subviridis Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 138. 



Mugil subviridis Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) XX. 1867, p. 64. 



'> Afugil subviridis Day, Fishes of India 4°, 1878 — 1888, p. 353. — Fish, oflirit. 



India II. 1889, p. 348 1). 

 Mtigil alcocki Ogilby, Ann. Queensl. Mus. Nr. 9, Part. I. 1908, p. 21. 

 Mugil subviridis De Beaufort, Bijdr. tot de Dierk. Afl. 19, Amsterdam, 1913, p. 107. 

 Mugil subviridis Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische, 1913, p. 138. 



D'. IV; D-. I. 8; A. III. 8; P. I 5— 16 ; V. I.5 ; L.l. 28— 30 ; 

 L. tr. 1 1 — 12. 



Rostro-dorsal profile nearly straight. Height equal to or some- 

 what more than length of head, which goes about 4 times in 

 length and more or less than 5 times in length with caudal. 

 Eye 3.5 to more than 4 in head, twice or less in its postor- 

 bital part. Gelatinous eyelid well developed, covering large 

 part of iris. Interorbital space nearly flat, more or less than 

 2'/,, times in head, much less than twice the diameter of the 

 eye. Snout shorter than eye, broad, somewhat depressed, its 

 frontmargin formed by upperlip, which may be rather thick, 

 but is not ciliated. Symphysial knob rather small, single. Ma.xil- 

 lary visible when mouth is closed. Praeorbital more or less 

 angularly bent, denticulate at its inferior and subtruncate 

 posterior border. Origin of first dorsal nearer to caudal than 

 to end of snout, separated by about 20 scales from snout and 

 opposite to iQt'i or ii'h lateral scale. Dorsal spines strong, hete- 

 racanth, shorter than head without snout, as high or higher 

 than second dorsal and anal, which both are emarginate and 

 thickly scaled. Origin of second dorsal opposite to 19th or 20tli 

 lateral scale and behind first third of anal. Pectorals about 

 equal to head without snout, reaching to /tli or 8th lateral scale. 

 Caudal rather broad, emarginate, scaly. No axillary scale above 



1) We are not sure that this is really M. subviridis C.V., the type specimen 

 of which Day says to describe, as Valenciennes describes the anal as 3.8 and 

 not 3.9, as Day says. 



