90 



MUGILID.E. 



Ak. AVicn, Ivii. i. LSiuS, p. G,s;i; :\[oroau, Toi.ss. Franco, iii. p. lHo (1881) ; 



Day, i'.rit. Fish. p. 232, pi. Irjvii. (1881); Smitt, Scand. Fish. i. p. 33-1, 



pi. XV. fio-. 11 (1803). 

 Miiijil cephalus, var. B, Dolaroclio, Aim. ]\rii>. Paris, xiii. 1809, p. 358, pi. xxi. 



" fig. 7. 

 ]\lii(jil cephalnx (noil L.), Riss^, lelitliyol. Nice, p. 343 (1810). 

 J%!7 lahroiuf, Risso, Ilist. Nat. Eur. Merid. iii. p. 389 (182(5). 

 Miifjil coin'iigatus, Lowe, Tr. Zool. 8oc. ii. 1839, ]>. 181, and Fisli. Madeira, p. 1.0.3 



(18G0). 

 Mvgil septeiitrionnlif, Giiiith. Cat. t. c. p. -1.55. 



Depth of l)0(ly 3^ to 4g- times in total longtli, lenccth of head 4 to 43 

 times. Snout as long as eye in young, longer in adult ; eye perfectly 



X 



Mwjil chelo. 

 Madeira. 3. 



lateral or a littlo better visible from below than from above, with a mere 

 rudiment of lid, 4 (young) to b\ times in length of head, 1| to 2| times 

 in interorbital width; nostrils close together; mouth forming an obtuse 

 angle; maxillary exposed; upper lip thick and broad, papillose, its 

 M'idth more than | diameter of eye, nearly equal to eye in adult ; 

 mandibles in contact on the median line, entirely or nearly entirely 

 covering the chin; edge of prscorbital finely denticulated; 4 or 5 series 

 of scales on the cheek. Dorsals IV, II 7-8 ; first spine \ to f lengtli of 

 head, longest soft ray about f ; second dorsal originating above anterior 

 tliird or middle of anal. Anal III 9. Pectoral | to -^ length of head ; 

 no scale process above the axil. Caudal deeply emarginate, as long 

 as or a little longer than head. Caudal peduncle \h to 13 times as 

 long as deep. 41-1-J scales in longitudinal series, 14-1-3 in transverse 



