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pectorals and ventrals, a long one at base of spinous dorsal. 

 Olivaceous above, the sides silvery with or without faint indi- 

 cations of darkish longitudinal bands along the rows of scales. 

 Length 220 mm. 



Habitat: Lombok (Labuan Tring !) ; Buru (Kajeli !) ; Celebes 

 (Makassar !). — British India, Philippines, Cape York. 



In sea and fresh water. 



9. Mugil vaigiensis Q.G. 



Mugil vaigiensis Quoy et Gaimard, Voyage de I'Uranie et de la Physicienne par 



Freycinet, Zool. 1824, p. 337. 

 Mugil mac)-olepidotiis Riippell, Atlas Fische d. Rotlien Meeres, 1828, p. 140. 

 Mugil viacrolepido/us Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. des Poiss. XI. 1836, p. 134. 

 Mugil tnelanochir (K. v. H.) Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. p. 143. 

 Mugil macrolepidotus Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indie (3) II. 1845, 



p. 514 (name only). 

 Mugil vtelanochir Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Genootsch. XXII. (1848) 1849, Bijdr. 



ichthyol. fauna van Madura, p. 5 (name only). 

 Mugil macrolepiJotus Cantor, Cat. Malayan Fishes, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 



vol. XVIII. 1850, p. 1077 (nee Rich.). 

 Mugil melanocliir Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. III. 1852, p. 423. 

 Mugil Rossii Bleeker, ibid. VII. 1854, p. 45. 



Mugil vaigiensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XVI. 1858 — 1859, p. 276. 

 Mugil Rossii Bleeker, I.e. 

 Mugil vaigiensis Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. VIII. i860, 13. Bijdr. Visch- 



fauna Borneo, p. 43. 

 Mugil 7vaigie/7sis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859 — 1861, p. 435. 

 Mugil Waigiensis Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 144. 

 Mugil luaigietisis Kner, Fische Novara-Exp. I. 1865 — 1867, p. 226. 

 Mugil waigiensis Klunzinger, Abh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, XX. 1870, p. 828', 



Fische d. Rothen Meeres I. 1884, p. 133. 

 Mugil Waigiensis Day, Fishes of India, 4°, 1878 — 1888, p. 359. 

 Mugil 7vaigiensis Giinther, Siidsee-Fische II. Journ. Mus. Godeffr. 1881, p. 216. 

 Mugil Waigiensis Sauvage, Hist. nat. d. Poiss. de Madagascar. 1891, p. 401. 

 Mugil ivaigiensis Scale, Occas. Pap. B. P. Bish. Mus. I. 1901, p. 65. 

 Liza waigiensis Scale, I.e. IV. 1906, p. 15. 



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

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

 Mugil waigiensis Mc Culloch, Check-list of fish & fish-like animals of N. S. Wales, 



Prt. II. 1919, p. 38. 



D'. IV; D-^. I. 7—8; A.m. 8; L.L26— 28; L.tr.9— 10. 



Rather stout. Rostro-dorsal profile nearly straight, from neck 

 to snout more or less convex. Height slightly less than length 

 of head, which is contained more than 4 to more than 5 times 

 in total length. Head broad and flat above. Eyes without 

 gelatinous eyelid; 4 to nearly 5 times in head. Interorbital 



