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CIEEHITID^. 



CIRRHITES FORSTERI, (Bl.) Gthr. [No. 17978]. 



Pcrca tcBJiiata, Forster, Descr. Anirn., ed. Light., 1844, 224. 



Gramonistes forsicri, Bloch, Syst. Ichth., ed. SCHN., 1801, 191. 



Sparus pantherinus, Lac:^p., Hist, des Poiss., iv, 1803, 160, pi. 6, f. 1. 



Cirrhites panthcrinus, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., iii, 1829,70. — LESSOX,Voy. 



Coq. Poiss., 1826-'30, 225, pi. 22, f. 1.— Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., 1851, 11, 



Banda, i, 232. 

 Serranus tankervilla;, Bennett, Fishes of Ceylon, 1834, pi. 27. 

 Cirrhites forsteri, Gunther, Cat. Fish., ii, 1860, 71. — Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1863, 107. — Gt)NTHER, Jour, Mus. Godeff, 11, 1874, Flsche der Sudsee, 1, 69, pi. 



49, f. A. 

 Par acirrhitus forsteri, Bleeker, Verh. k. Ak. Weten Ainst., 1875, xv, 6. 



Locality : Honolulu, Oahu. 



MUGILID^. 



MUGIL CEPHALOTUS, Cuv. & Val. [Nos. 18002, 18003J. 



Mugil cephalotus, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., xi, 1836, 110. — GtJnther, Cat. 



Fish., ili, 1861, 419. 

 Mugil japonicus, Schleg., Faun. Japon. Poiss., 1850, 134, pi. 72, f. 1. 

 Mugil macrolepidotus, Richardson, Pep. Ichth. Chin., Rep. 15th Meet. Brit. Assoc, 



1846, 249. 



D. 4^. A. f . L. lat. 40-42. L. trans. 14-15. 



The height of the body and the length of the head are nearly equal, 

 and are one-fifth of the total length. Snout broad, depressed, longer 

 than the eye ; lips thin, provided with minute cilia. Deep cavity in 

 front of the vomer. The angle formed by the lower jaw in front is a 

 right angle ; a narrow stripe of the maxillary is visible behind the inter- 

 maxillary; praeorbital not emarginate, finely denticulated on its ante 

 rior edge and. at its extremity, which is obliquely truncated. Cleft of 

 the mouth is not twice as broad as deep. The width of the interorbital 

 space is contained more than twice in the length of the head. Eye- 

 nearly covered with a broad adipose membrane, leaving the pupil ex- 

 posed through a narrow vertical slit in the middle. Three series of scales 

 between the eye and the inferior border of the prseoperculum ; angle of 

 prseoperculum produced posteriorly. Pectoral inserted above the mid- 

 dle of the height of the body ; it terminates on the eighth scale of the 

 lateral line ; spinous dorsal commences on the tenth scale of the lateral 



