^0 WUGILIB-E. 



31-35 scules; pectoral as long as luad . . .12. M. Iwejlcn, Sildv., p. 'M). 

 27-30 scales; pectoral as long as or siiyiitly [p. '.'(i. 



shorter than head 13. M. ffrandisqiianus, ('. & \'., 



II. Caudal feebly cinarginate ; 2(J-27 scales 

 in a loiigitudiiuil series ; no scaly pro- 

 cess ill axil of pectoral ; anal with 7-8 

 soft rays li. .1/. caigiensis, Q. & G., ji. 07. 



1. :\IUGIL CEPHALUS. 



Linn. Svst. Nat. i. ]>. .520 (1700); Sonnini, Voy. Egypte, ii. ]>. 2I.IG, pi. xxiii. 



fig. 2 (17'J'J) : Delaroche, Ann. Miis. xiii. 1801), p. 358, pi. .\x. tig. i ; C!uv. 



l{6gne Anim. 2nd cd. ii. p. 231 (1829) ; Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital., Pesc. 



(1834) ; (!uv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xi. p. 19, pi. cccvii. (183lj) ; Lowe, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1813, p. 80 ; Guichen. Evplor. Alg., Poiss. p. 07 (Ls5(l); Giiniii. 



Cat. Fish. iii. p. 417 (1801) ; Blanch. Poiss. France, p. 231 (1800) ; Stcind. 



8it/,b. Ak. AVien, Ivii. i. 1808, p. 680 ; Giinth. Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 20'.l 



(180'.)) ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wicn, Ixi.i. 1870, p. D52 ; Moreau, Poiss. France, 



iii. p. 183 (1881) ; Jord. & Everm. Fi.sh. N. Anu^r. p. 811 (l.SDC)) ; Bonleng. 



Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 353 (1901); H. W. Fowler, Proc. Ac. PhiJad. Iv. 1901, 



pp. 743 & 744, fig. ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 429, pi. Ixxx. fig. 1 (1907). 

 Mii(iil aUnda, Linn. t. c. p. 520. 



Mtufil laiy, Bloch, Nat. Ausl. Fischc, viii. p. 171, pi. cccxcv. (1793). 

 Mxijil plumieri, Bloch, t. c. p. 173, pi. cccxcvi. 

 }/it</il Uneatas, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 90. 

 J/»(/;7 constantia; Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 107 : A. Sinilli, III. Zool. S. .\fr., Fislie<. 



pi. xxviii. fig. 1 (1810); Casteln. .Mem. Poiss. Afr. Austr. (>. IS ijsdl) ; 



(iiinth. Cat. t. c. p. 418, fig. 

 Miii/il borboiiicus, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 113 ; 8auv. Hist. 3Ia(lag., Poiss. p. 395, 



pi. xlii. fig. 3 (1891). 

 Mii.;il rammeUhergn, Tschudi, Faun. Per., Iclitli. p. 20 (1S45). 

 MiKjil berlaiulien, Girard, U.S. -Alex. Bound. .Surv. i. Ichlli. p. 20, pi. x. figs. 1-1 



(1859). 

 y MaijH camptosiensh, Casteln. oil cit p. 48. 

 Muffil (jiicntlwri. Gill, Proc. Ac. Pliilad. 1803, ji. 1G9. 

 Mtiii'd ashanleemis, Block. Nat. Verb. Vet. Haarlem, xviii. 1803, no. 2. p. 91, 



pi. xix. fig. 2 ; Stcind. Sitzb. Ak. Wicn. Ixi. i. 1870, p. 953. 

 ihujil mexicanug, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixiii. i. 1875, p. 58, pi. viii. 



Deptli of body oj to 5 times in total length, Icngtli of head 4 to 4j, 

 times (less in the very young). Snout as long as eye in adult, sliortcr 

 ill voun"" ; eye perfectly lateral in young, better visible from belou- than 

 fiom above in adult, partly covired by a much developed adi]iosr lid. 



