:\ru(iir. 



83 



II 7; first two spines alxxit h length of head, longest soft ray h to ;3 

 length of head ; second dorsal originating above anterior tliird of anal. 

 .Anal III 8. Pectoral I to j lengtli of liead ; a large scaly process 

 above the axil. Caudal forked, as long as head. Caudal [)cduncle 

 1^ to 1^ times as long as deep. 40-45 scales in longitudinal series, 

 14-15 in transverse series. Silvery, bluish grey above, witliout or with 

 slight traces of darker streaks running along the series of scales. 



Total length 340 niillim. 



Indian Ocean, eastwards to Australia. 



1-n. llgr. Socotra. Prof. I. B. Balfour (P.). 



4. Ad. E. Madagascar. Bov. R. Baiou {('.). 



5-t'>. Typos of Mi/XKi Bodrigiicz, in IVcsb water. G. Gulliver, Esq. (<'.). 

 cwculiens. 



Fiir. 48. 



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Altti/il ocur. 

 After Day (op. cit.). 



.3. MUGIL CAPITO. 



Cny. I!,'.onc Anim. 2nd cd. ii. p. 232 (1820); Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital.. IVsc. 



(I.s:il) ; Cuv. it Yal. Hist. Poiss. xi. ]). ''.C, pi. cecviii. (18;50) ; Yarrcll, Brif. 



Fish. i. p. 200, fig. (183(;) ; Guiclion. Exi)lor. Alg., Poiss. p. ('.7 (1850) ; 



Niissou, Skaml. Faun. i\-. j). 17() (185.')) : Giiiith. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) vii. 



l^C.l, p. 34o, and (,'at. Fish. ill. p. ll)',! (LSUl) ; Blanch. Poiss. France, p. 2 18, 



fig-. (18(U'.) ; Steiud. Sitzh. Ak. Wien, Ivii. i. 18G8, p. G80 ; Giiutli. Petherick"s 



Tiav. ii. p. 210 (18C.0) ; Morcaii, Pois.s. France, iii. p. 188 (1881) ; Day, Brit. 



Fish. p. 2.30, pi. xlvi. (1881); Lort.'t, Arch. Mas. Lyon, iii. 1883. p. i:!l, 



y\. X. fig. 2 ; Lilljel). Svcr. Norg. Fisk. i. p. 408 (1884); Sniitt. Scand. Fish. i. 



p. ;',3'J, fig. (1803); Bouleng. Poiss. Bas.s. Congo, p. 355 (I'.'Ol), and Fish. 



Nile, p. 432, pi. Ixxx. fig. 2, and pi. Ixxxi. fig. 1 (1007). 

 MiKjU ci'pluiliis (non Liini.), Doriovaii, Brit. Fish. i. pi. xv. (1802). 

 Midj'il ci'p/ialii.-!, var. A, iiisso, Iciitliyul. Nice, p. 344 (l^ld). 



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