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Dorso-rostral profile nearly straight, anteriorly convex. Height 

 4 to 4^/., times in length with caudal, head 4.5 times. Eye 

 nearly 3%, in length of head, twice in postorbital part of head 

 and i'/^ in interorbital space; without a gelatinous eyelid or 

 posteriorly only with a very short one. Interorbital space flat, 

 broad, its width being nearly one half length of head. Snout 

 obtuse, depressed, somewhat shorter than eye. Praeorbital emar- 

 ginate, angularly bent, scaly, its truncated extremity and its 

 lower margin dentated. Maxillary visible. Upper lip ciliated, 

 rather thick, forming frontmargin of snout. Symphysial knob 

 single. Origin of first dorsal nearer to base of caudal than to 

 end of snout, separated from it by 18 praedorsal scales, oppo- 

 site to 9th lateral scale. Dorsal spines rather strong, about as 

 high as second dorsal and anal, the first about -/g of the length 

 of the head. Second dorsal opposite to i8th or 19th lateral 

 scale and about to the middle of the anal. Second dorsal and 

 anal scaly at their base. Caudal slightly emarginate. Pectorals 

 about equal to head without snout, not reaching to origin of 

 first dorsal, an axillary scale is wanting or very short. Least 

 height of caudal peduncle more than its length and equal to 

 postorbital part of head. Silvery, back brown, fins dusky. 

 Length 215 mm. 



Habitat: Sinabang Bay, Simalur ! (E, Jacobson leg.). — 

 Vanicolo, Tonga Island, Samoa, Fiji Islands. 



In sea. 



12. Mugil ceramensis BIkr. 



Mugil ceramensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 699. 



Mugil ceramensis Bleeker, ibid. XVI. 1858 — 1859, p. 277. 



Mugil ceramensis Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. VIII. i860, I3de Bijdr. 



vischfauna Borneo, p. 48. 

 Mugil ceramensis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859 — 1861, p. 449. 



D'. IV; D-. L8— 9; A. III. 9; L.l. 30— 31; L.tr. 10— II. 



Dorso-ventral profile evenly descending and straight or con- 

 vex; head pointed and nearly straight, 3.7 in length; 4.7 in 

 length with caudal. Height slightly more than head. Eye 

 3.8 to 4 times in head, about twice in its postorbital part 

 and 1.7 in interorbital space; gelatinous eyelid forming a 

 narrow ring round eye. Interorbital space flat or slightly convex, 

 more than twice in head. Snout acute, about equal to eye. 

 Praeorbital scaly, bent, slightly emarginate, conspicuously denti- 



