250 



tinous membrane wanting or very short. Interorbital space 

 almost flat and nearly twice the diameter of eye. Snout obtuse, 

 in adults about equal to diameter of eye. Praeorbital somewhat 

 emarginate, conspicuously denticulate. Maxillary visible. Sym- 

 physial knob simple. Upper lip thin, its border ciliate. Origin 

 of first dorsal separated by 18 21 praedorsal scales from snout, 

 nearer to caudal than to end of snout, opposite to nth lateral 

 scale. Dorsal spines strong, longer than postorbital part of 

 head, their 'height equal to that of second dorsal and anal. 

 Both are nearly straight and nearly totally scaly. Origin of 

 second dorsal opposite to 2O th lateral scale and nearly totally 

 behind the anal. Caudal emarginate. Pectorals shorter than 

 head without snout, not reaching origin of first dorsal, without 

 an axillary scale. Axillary scales on ventrals and at base of 

 first dorsal well developed. Least height of caudal peduncle 

 somewhat less than its length, nearly twice the length of the 

 head. Silvery, olivaceous above. Fins blackish towards the 

 margin. Anal generally with a whitish margin. Length 280 mm. 

 [Specimens of BLEEKER'S collection in the Museum of Leiden 

 and Amsterdam seen by us]. 



Habitat: Singapore; Sumatra (Padang, Siboga); Nias ! ; 

 Riouw ; Bintang; Java (Patjitan); Borneo (Banjermasin, Sungi 

 Duri, Kota Baru !) ; Celebes (Menado, Makassar) ; Timor; Ambon ; 

 Ceram!; Buru ! ; Obi major!; Saonek!. Orissa, British India, 

 Carolines, Tahiti, Tonga. 



15. Mugil caeruleomaculatus Lac. 



Mttgil caeruleomaculatus Lacepede, Hist. nat. d. Poissons V. 1803, p. 385, 389 '). 

 Mugil caeruleo-maculatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. Poiss. XI. 1836, p. 128. 

 Mtigil coeruleo-maculatus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. II. 1851, p. 484. 

 Mugil coeruleomaculatus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XVI. 18581859, 

 p. 279. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. VIII. 1860, Negende Bijdrage vischfauna 



Sumatra, p. 5. 



Mugil caeruleo-maculatus Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859 1861, p. 445. 

 Mugil caeruleo-maculatus Sauvage, Hist. nat. d. Poissons de Madagascar, 1891, 



P- 398. 



D'.IV; D 2 .I.'S; A. III. 9; L.I. 36-38 ; L.tr. 12 13. 

 Dorso-rostral profile convex, declivous. Height decreasing 



l) The species described by DAY as coeruleo-maculatus Lac. (Fish, of Brit. 

 India II. 1889, p. 351), ls not this species as f. i. the pectorals are much too 

 short. Liza coeruleomaculata Jordan Scale from Samoa is not this species. 



