82 MUGILID.^i:. 



25. Y"". B;iln-fl-T;nviI:ili, frt'sliwutcr L. Loat, E.s(j. (('.). 



c;in:il. 



2()-29. All. it ligr. Nile near Samanmul. „ 



30. AJ. Nile. S. S. Allen, E«|. (r.). 



31-40. AJ.,]igr.,&egg. St. Louis, Senegal. M. P. Dcllie/. (C). 



41. Yg. St. Jago, Cape Verd. II. M.S. ' Challenger.' 



42. Ad. Lagos. J; Cadnian, Esq. (P.). 



43. Hgr. Niger. Mr. L. Fraser (C.;. 



44. Hgr. Banana, Lower (Jongo. ('apt. Wilverth (C.). 



45. Hgr. Caliiiida. Dr. Jackson (C.) ; lion. 



W. ]{otliscliild (P.). 

 4t;, 47. Ad. A: hgr., stild. Cape of Good Hope. Sir A. Smith (P.). 



48. Yg. 



49. Hgr. 



50-54. Yg. Port Elizabeth. F. W. Fit/. Simons, Esq. 



(P.). 

 55. Ad. Durlian. Mr. T. Ayrcs ((!.). 



50-57. Ad. & hgr. Natal. Dr. E. Warren (P.). 



2. MUGIL OEUP. 

 Forsk. Descr. Anim. p. 74 (1775) ; lUipp. N. Wirl.elth. p. 131 (1840); KIiuiz. 



Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xx. 1870, p. 829 ; Day, Fish. Ind. p. 353, pi. Ixxv. 



fig. 3 (187G); Steind. Denkschr. Ak.Wicn, xliv. 1882, p. 40 ; Kliinz. Fischo 



Roth. Meer. p. 132, pi. x. fig. 1 h (1884). 

 MiKjil cephalotvs, C'uv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xi. ]i. 110 (183G) ; Giintli Cat. Fish. 



iii. p. 419 (18G1) ; Kner, Novara, Fiselie, p. 224 (1805) ; Bleek. Poiss. 



Madag. p. 45, pi. ii. tig. 1 (1874) ; Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. ji. 402, 



pi. xHx.B. figs. 2&3 (1891). 

 Mmjil borbonicun, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 113 ; Sauv. op. cit. p. 395, ]d. xlii. fig. 3. 

 Myxus superJiciaUs, Klunz. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xx. 1870, p. 831. 

 My.vus ca'cutiens, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. II. (4) xvii. 1S7C, p. 397 : Sauv. op. eit. 



p. 404, pi. xlii. fig. 2. 



Depth of body nearly cciual lo IcDgtli of head, 3J to 4 tunes in total 

 length. Snout as long as eye in adult, shorter in young ; eye perfectly 

 lateral in young, better visible from below than from above in adult, 

 partly covered by a much developed adipose lid, which extends in front 

 of and behind the orbit, 3 (young) to 4 J times in length of head, 1| to 

 2 times in interorbital width ; nostrils rather widely separated from 

 each other; mouth forming a right angle; maxillary hidden when the 

 mouth is closed; a lanceolate space between tlie rami of the mandible; 

 upper lip narrow, its width less than i diameter of eye ; praeorbital with 

 the edge finely serrated ; 2 or 3 series of scales on the cheek. Dorsals I\', 



