Miigil cephalotiis Giinther. Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) XX. 1867, p. 64 (name only). 



Mugil oetir Klunzinger, Abhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien XX. 1870, p. 829. 



Mugil cephalottis Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. IV. 1S73, p. lOO. — Ibid. p. 143. 



Mugil japoniais Bleeker, ibid. p. 143. 



Mugil cephalotics Bleeker, Poiss. de Madagascar 1875, p. 45. 



Mugil oeur Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878— 1888, p. 353. 



Mugil cephalotus Bleeker, Verb. Akad. Amsterdam XVIII. 1879, Poiss, de Chine, p. 2. 



Mugil japonicns Bleeker, ibid. Poiss. du Japon, p. 17. 



Mugil cephalotus Giinther, Challenger Exp. VI. Shore-Fishes 1880, p. 33. 



Mugil dobula Giinther, Fische Siidsee II. Journ. Mus. Godeffr. 1881, p. 214. 



Mugil oeur Klunzinger, Fische d. roth. Meeres 1884, p. 132. 



Mugil our Steindachner & Doderlein, Fische Japan's, IV. Denkschr. Akad. Wien 



LIII. 1887, p. 266. 

 Mugil cephalotus Nystrom, Bihang K. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. XIII. Afd. IV, 



No. 4, 1887, p. 38. 

 Mugil oeur Day, Fishes of Brit, India II. 1889, p. 348, 

 Mugil cephalotus Sauvage, Poiss. Madagascar, 1891, p. 402. 



Mugil cephalus Evermann & Jenkins, Proc, U, 3. Nat. Mus. XIV. (1891) 1892, p. 136, 

 Mugil cephalus Jordan & Evermann, Fish. North & Middle America I, 1896, p. 81 1, 

 Mugil oeur Rutter, Proc, Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1897, p. 70. 

 Mugil hypselosoma Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales XXII. 1897, p. 74, 

 Mugil dobula Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wien, LXX. 1900, p. 501. 

 Mugil our Jordan cS: Snyder, Proc. U. S, Nat, Mus. XXIII. 1901, p, 744. 

 Mugil oeur Jordan & Evermann, ibid, XXV. 1902, p, 332, 

 Mugil cephalus Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. XXII. 1902 (1904), p. 438. 

 Mugil cephalus Jordan & Scale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus, Wash. XXIX. 1905, p. 521. 

 Mugil cephalus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm, XXIII. (1903) 



1905, p. 139- 

 Mugil cephalus Tanaka, Fishes of Japan III, 191 1, p. 50. 

 Mugil cephalus Mc Culloch, Check-list of fish of N, S. Wales II. 1919, p. 38. 



D'.IV; D-^. I. 8; A. Ill, 8; P. 2.15 — 16; V.I. 5; L.l. 37— 4O; 

 L.tr. 14 — 15. 



Rostro-dorsal profile nearly horizontal, lower profile strongly 

 curved. Height, which is conspicuously less than length of 

 head, somewhat more or less than 5 (in large specimens 5-/., 

 to nearly 6) in total length, 4Y2 — 4^4 ^^ length without caudal. 

 Eye more or less than 4 in head, twice or somewhat more 

 in postorbital part of head ; gelatinous eyelid broadly deve- 

 loped anteriorly and posteriorly reaching to pupil ; interorbital 

 space nearly flat, conspicuously broader than eye. Snout shorter 

 than eye, somewhat pointed but broadly rounded, when seen 

 from above; its frontborder formed by the upperlip, which is 

 rather thin. Free border of both lips with conspicuous yellowish 

 ciliae (teeth). Maxillary not visible when mouth is closed or 

 only a narrow stripe of its posterior part. Praeorbital scaly, 

 neither notched nor bent, its lower and posterior border ser- 



