2o8 EXPKDITIOX OF TUF. ■• AI.HATrxOSS," ISTO-IOOO. 



Liza borneensis (Bleeker). 



Miiffil borneensis Bleeker, Xut. Tijiis. Xcd. Imi., ISol, 2, p. 201. Day, Fishes of India, 1876, p. 

 357, pi. 76, fig. 1. 



One specimen, No. 08810, M. C\ Z. 29794, bl inches long (poor condition), 

 from Kusaie, Caroline Islands. Three specimens from \'avau, Tonga Islands, 

 No. A131, ol inches long: No. 08893. 8^ inches long, and Xo. A120, 111 inches 

 long, Xo. A120 has teeth in two rows in upper jaw; dorsal IV-8; anal III, 9; 

 scales 35, 11 in cross series. Xos. 08810 and A131, M. C. Z. 29778, show no 

 teeth in upper jaw. the latter has 19 scales before dorsal, a moderately long 

 axillary scale, otherwise it agrees very well with Day's description of L. borneensis. 



Liza compressa (Gi'-xther). 

 Mugil compre.isHs Gi'nther, Cat., 1861, 3, p. ol. 



One specimen, Xo. 08815 (about (3 inches long), from Kusaie. Caroline Islands. 



Liza crenilabis (Forskal). 



Muffil crenilabis Forsk.Il, De.scrip. Aiiim., 177.5, ]). 73. 



Querimana crenilabis, Jord.\x & Se.\le, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 1006, 25, p. 218. 



Four specimens, Xo. 08981 , ll to I5 inches long from Cuam. Four specimens, 

 Xo. 05810. :M. C. Z. 29376. Ig to Is inches long from Makemo, Paumotu Islands. 



Xo. A193, a specimen 8l inches long from Jahiit. Marshall Islands. Xo. 

 A193 has head 4.66 in body; depth 4.17; eye 4 in head; dor.sal IV-1. 8; anal 

 III, 9 or 10; first dorsal midway between snout and base of caudal: origin of 

 anal slightly in advance of df)rsal: origin of first dor^ul over lOth scale, second 

 over 21st; a long scale in axil of jjcctoral and in axis of ventral and one on each 

 side of spinous dorsal. 



Neomyxus. 



The genus Xh'xus based on M. clongatus CUinther. Cat., 3, 4()(). has according 

 to Ciinther ''a .single row of teeth on the upper jaw. sometimes in the lower and 

 on the palate: upper lip not particularly thick." 



Specimens in the U. S. National Museum from Hateman Bay, N, S, Wales, 

 Australia, called Myxiis elon(ia(n.'<. agree in having a niodcratelx' lliick u])per 



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