244 



pectorals and ventrals, a long one at base of spinous dorsal. 

 Olivaceous above, the sides silvery with or without faint indi- 

 cations of darkish longitudinal bands along the rows of scales. 

 Length 220 mm. 



Habitat: Lombok (Labuan Tring!); Buru (Kajeli !); Celebes 

 (Makassar !). - - British India, Philippines, Cape York. 



In sea and fresh water. 



9. Mugil vaigiensis Q.G. 



Mugil vaigiensis Quoy et Gaimard, Voyage de TUranie et de la Physicienne par 



Freycinet, Zool. 1824, p. 337. 



Mugil macrolepidotus Ruppell, Atlas Fische d. Rothen Meeres, 1828, p. 140. 

 Mugil macrolepidotus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. des Poiss. XI. 1836, p. 134. 

 Mugil melanochir (K. v. H.) Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. p. 143. 

 Mugil macrolepidotits Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indie (3) II. 1845, 



p. 514 (name only). 

 Mugil melanochir Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Genootsch. XXII. (1848) 1849, Bijdr. 



ichtbyol. fauna van Madura, p. 5 (name only). 

 Mugil macrolepidotus Cantor, Cat. Malayan Fishes, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 



vol. XVIII. 1850, p. 1077 (nee Rich.). 



Mugil melanochir Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. III. 1852, p. 423. 

 Mugil Rossii Bleeker, ibid. VII. 1854, p. 45. 



Mugil vaigiensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XVI. 18581859, p. 276. 

 Mugil Rossii Bleeker, I.e. 

 Mugil vaigiensis Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. VIII. 1860, 13. Bijdr. Visch- 



fauna Borneo, p. 43. 



Mugil waigiensis Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 18591861, p. 435. 

 Mugil Waigiensis Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 144. 

 Mugil waigiensis Kner, Fische Novara-Exp. I. 1865 1867, p. 226. 

 Mugil waigiensis Klunzinger, Abh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, XX. 1870^.828; 



Fische d. Rothen Meeres I. 1884, p. 133. 



Mugil Waigiensis Day, Fishes of India, 4, 18781888, p. 359. 

 Mugil waigiensis Gunther, Sudsee-Fische II. Journ. Mus. Godeffr. 1881, p. 216. 

 Mugil Waigiensis Sauvage, Hist. nat. d. Poiss. de Madagascar. 1891, p. 401. 

 Mugil waigiensis Scale, Occas. Pap. B. P. Bish. Mus. I. 1901, p. 65. 

 Liza waigiensis Scale, I.e. IV. 1906, p. 15. 



Mugil vaigiensis de Beaufort, Bijdr. tot de Dierk. Afl. 19. Amsterdam. 1913, p. 107. 

 Mugil Rossi Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische. 1913, p. 138. 

 Mugil waigiensis Me Culloch, Check-list of fish & fish-like animals of N. S. Wales, 



Prt. II. 1919, p. 38. 



D 1 . IV; D 2 . 1. 7 8; A. III. 8; L.I. 26 28; L.tr-9 10. 



Rather stout. Rostro-dorsal profile nearly straight, from neck 

 to snout more or less convex. Height slightly less than length 

 of head, which is contained more than 4 to more than 5 times 

 in total length. Head broad and flat above. Eyes without 

 gelatinous eyelid; 4 to nearly 5 times in head. Interorbital 



