04 MUGILID.E. 



perfectly lateral, with a mere rudiment of litl, Bi (young) to 5 times in 

 Jengtli of licad, li to nearly 3 times in interorbital widtli ; mouth 

 forming- an obtuse angle; maxillary entirely concealed when tlie mouth 

 is closed ; upper lip narrow, not more than -\ diameter of eye ; mandibles 

 nearly entirely covering the chin, the space between them very narrow ; 

 nostrils rather widely separated from each other ; pneorbital denticulated ; 

 3 or 4 series of scales on the cheek. Dorsals IV, I 8 ; first and second 

 spines -j to f length of head, longest soft ray f to ^ length of liead ; 

 second dorsal and anal exactly opposed. Anal III 9. Pectoral as long 

 as head; a large scaly process above the axil. Caudal deeply forked, 

 longer than head, scaly like the soft dorsal and anal. Caudal peduncle 

 1^ to 1| times as long as deep. 31-33 scales in longitudinal series, 

 11-12 in transverse series. Silvery, back greenish olive, with or 

 without rather indistinct and interrupted darker longitudinal streaks ; 

 a small black spot at the base of the [lectoral. 



Total length 480 millim. 



East Coast of Africa and Natal to Ceylon. 



1. Ad. Kosi Bay, Zulukiul. I >r. E. Waiioii (P.). 



2-3. Ad. & yg. Zauzibar. Sir L. I'laylair (P.). 



11. MUGIL MACROLEPIS. 



Mtiffil inacrolepis, A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Fisli. jil. xsviii. fij;. 2 (164G) ; 



f!astclii. Mem. Poiss. Afr. Austr. \). 47 (l^CI). 

 Miujil trosehelii, BIcok. Nat. Tijilschr. Neilerl. Iiul. xvi. 185<^, p. 277 ; Giiiiih. Cat. 



Fish. iii. p. 448 (18G1). 

 ? MiKjil creiiilejiis, Castelu. op. cit. p. 49. 

 Mugil smithii (non Castoln.), Giiiitb. Cat. t. c. p. 447 ; Sauv. Hist. Mailag., Poiss. 



p. 3II1I, pi. xli.15. Hi;-. 4 (18D1). 

 Mvijil rodericensis, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. II. (4) xvii. 187G, p. 31)7. 

 Mugil diadema, Gik-lnist ct Thompson, Ann. S. Afr. Mas. xi. lllll, p. 42. 



Depth of body 3^ to 4j 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 a rudimentary adipose lid, 

 3J (young) to A\ times in length of head, 1^ to 2 times in interorbital 

 width; nostrils close together; mouth forming an obtuse angle; end of 

 maxillary exposed when the mouth is closed ; a narrow lanceolate space 

 between the rami of the mandible ; upper lip narrow, its width less 

 than \ diameter of eye ; pra*orbital with the edge finely seriated ; 3 or 



