MUGIL. 



91 



scries. Silvery or golden, bark bluish grey ; ilark streaks along the 

 series of scales. 



Total length 500 milliin. 



Atlantic, from Scandinavia to the Canary Ids. and ?*Ieditcrranean. — 

 '1 y[ie in Paris Museum. 



1-2. Yjr. Const of Egypt. J. Potliorick, Escj. (C). 



;',. Ad. M:iiloira. Hon. C. Baring ami W. 1>. 



Ooilvie-Gnint, Esq. (P.). 

 1. Ym. „ J. Y. Jiihnson, Esq. (P.). 



5. All. Lanzarote, Canary Us.. Pev. R. T. Lowe (P.). 



Fisr. .5.3. 



Muyil seJieli. 

 Zanzibar. |. 



8. MUGIL SEHELT. 

 Forsk. Dpscr. Anim. p. 73 (1775) : Cnv. & Vai. Hist. Poiss. xi. p. 1.52 {\S?>C,) ; 



Kiunz. Verli. zool.-hot. Ges. "Wien, xx. 1870, p. 827 ; Day, Fish. hid. ]).X>'> 



(187G); Klunz. Fische Roth. Mcer. p. 132, pi. x. fig. 1 (1884). 

 Mu</il acrideo-maailatiis, Laccp. Hist. Poi.ss. v. pp. 385, 389 (1802) ; Cuv. & Val. 



t. c. p. 128 ; Gunth. Cat. Fish. iii. p. -145 (18G1) ; Day op- "-'"t- P- 350 ; Sauv. 



lii.st. Madag., Poiss. p. 398, pi. xliii. fig. 2 (1891). 

 A/iiffil a.villaris, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 131 ; Gihith. t. c. p. 444, and Fische Siidsee, 



p. 21C, ]>]. cxx. fig. B (1877) ; Saiiv. op. cit. p. 397, pi. xliii. fig. 

 y Mt/.riis trimacidattis, Klunz. Verh. zool.-Iiot. Ges. "Wion, xx. 1870, p. 832. 



Depth of body 3^ to 4 times in total length, length of head 4 to 4| 

 times. Snout as long as eye in adult, shorter in young; eye better 

 visible from below than from above, with mere rudiments of lids, 3^ to 

 4^ times in length of head, If to 2^- times in iuterorbitul width; 



