BY CHAKLES W. DE VIS, M.A 871 



Length, 5 A inches. Locality, Brisbane. 



In a younger exami)le there are differences which might mislead. 

 The mandibulai-y angle is acute and the lower jaw much longer in 

 proportion ; the free space much narrower, the opercles nearly 

 meeting behind, the head is more pointed and longer than the 

 height of the body. There is a large dark patch in the middle of 

 the caudal, another in that of the soft dorsal and a streaky one on 

 the spinous dorsal. 



The affinities of the species seem to be with M. cejjhalotus on 

 the one hand and J/, gelatinosus on the other. 



MUGIL SPLENDENS. 



D. 41 A. 3/9. Lat. 40, Tr. 12. 



The height of the body is 45, the length of the head 5 in the 

 total length. Orbit and snout 4 J, interorbit I5 in the length of 

 the head. 



No adipose eyelid, the eye in spirits covered with an opaque 

 membrane. No teeth. Lower lip strongly ciliated. No free 

 space under the chin. The lower end of the maxillary is visible 

 at the angle of the mouth. The preorbital is strongly serrated on 

 its posterior limb. Twenty-one series of scales between the snout 

 and the first dorsal. The root of the pectoral is level with the 

 upper angle of the operculum ; it has a moderately long axillary 

 scale and reaches nearly to the origin of the dorsal. The dorsals 

 rise opposite the 13th and 25th scale rows, the anal opposite the 

 second dorsal. Elongated scale of first dorsal 5 of the first spine, 

 that of the ventral short. 



Colour golden, rather greyish on the back and yellow on the 

 lower part of the head. The scales with shining margins. The 

 duller centres produce longitudinal bands changing their position 

 as the incidence of the light is altered. Pectoral with a bright 

 yellow elongated spot across the base, above it a black spot 

 extended on the edge of the fin. 



Length, 10 inches. Locality, Card well. 



