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all under one head as Mugil cephalus. The species has, however, not been 

 recorded from Cuba. (Cephalus, Cefalo, an old name from Kttyahrj, 

 head.) (Eu.) 



Mugil cephalus, LINNAEUS, Systema Naturae, Ed. x, 316, 1758, Europe ; based on ARTEDI. 



Mugil albula, LINN^US, Syst. Nat., Ed. xn, 520, 1766, Charleston. (Coll. Dr. Garden.) 



Mugil tang, BLOCH, Ichthyologia, plate 395, 1794, Africa. 



Mugil plumieri, BLOCH, I. c., plate 396, 1794, St. Vincent ; on a drawing by PLUMIER. 



Mugil lineatus, MITCHILL MS., CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xr, 96, 1836, New 



York. 



Mugil rammelsbergii, TscHXJDi, Fauna Peruana, Ichthy., 20, 1845, Peru. 

 Mugil lerlandieri, GIRARD, U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., 20, plate 10, figs. 1 to 4, 1859, St. 



Joseph's Island, Indianola ; Brazos Santiago ; Brazos; and Gal veston; all on coast 



of Texas. (Coll. Wiirdemann, Clark, and Kennerly.) 

 Mugil gi'mtheri, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 169, western coast of Central 



America; not of STEINDACHNER. 



Mugil mexicanus, STEINDACHNEK, Ichthyol. Beitrage, HI, 59, 1875, Acapulco. 

 Mugil albula, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 403, 1883. 

 Mugil cephalus, JORDAN & SWAIN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 263. 



1184. MUGIL INCILIS, Hancock. 

 (TRENCH MULLET.) 



Head 4 ; depth 41. D. IV-I, 8 ; A. Ill, 9 ; scales 42 to 44-15, 23 before 

 the dorsal. Snout moderately broad, scarcely convex, with the 

 lower profile ascending in the same degree as the upper descends ; the 

 teeth very small, slender ; interorbital space slightly convex, its width 2f in 

 length of head. Upper lip rather thin ; the angle made by the two 

 mandibulary bones a right one; the preorbital tapers posteriorly, has 

 the anterior margin finely serrated, and covers the maxillary so that only 

 a very narrow portion of it is visible on the side of the snout. Adipose 

 eyelids large. The space of the chin, between the mandibles and inter> 

 opercles is elongate cuneiform. Soft dorsal and anal fins scaly. Second 

 dorsal spine slightly longer than the first, and more than half length of 

 head ; pectoral short, reaching tenth scale, not quite reaching dorsal ; 

 fins scarcely falcate ; caudal deeply emarginate. Silvery ; axil blackish ; 

 sides without dark stripes along the rows of scales. (Giinther.) 

 Brackish waters from Rio Chagres to Pard, and Bahia ; common, (incilis, 

 pertaining to a ditch.) 

 Mugil incilis, HANCOCK, Quart. Journ. Sci., 1830, 127, Guiana ; GUNTHER, Fishes Centr. 



Amer., 1869, JORDAN & SWAIN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 266. 

 Mugil gilntheri, STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Notizen, i, 12, 1864, British Guiana. 



1185. MUGIL THOBURNI, Jordan & Starks, new species. 



Head 3| to 3f; depth 4 ; dorsal IV-7; anal III, 9 ; scales 44-15; orbit 

 equal to snout, 4i in head ; uncovered part of eye 8 or 9 in head ; inter- 

 orbital 2i; first dorsal spine 2; soft dorsal and anal equal, the longest 

 ray 2J- ; ventrals 2 in head ; pectoral If. Body moderately elongate ; a 

 very gentle curve from tip of snout to dorsal ; ventral outline consider- 

 ably curved, the curve uniform from chin to caudal peduncle. Head 

 large, broadly rounded above ; eye moderate, with a large adipose eyelid; 



