93 

 MUGILID^. 



MUGIL CREi!TlLABRIS, ForsMl [No. 1924G]. 



M'ugil crenilabris, Fokskal, Descr. Anim., 1775, 73. — Euppell, N. W. Fische, 1837, 

 132.— Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., xi, 1836, 123.— Gunther, Cat. 

 Fish., lit, 1861, 458. 



Mugil rii^pelli, Gunther, Cat. Fish., iii, 1861, 458. 



D 4i. Af. L. lat. 38-40. L. trans. 14. 



Height of the body is contained 4^ times in the total length, and the 

 length of the head 5 times in the same. Snout broad, short — less than 

 the diameter of the eye — obtuse ; the interorbital space slightly con- 

 vex, its width being double the vertical diameter of the eye, and con- 

 tained 24 times in th*e length of the head. The upper lip is thict, with 

 short, fleshy fringes ; the lower jaw also fringed, and notched at the 

 Hymphysis ; the mandibulary bones do not leave any free space between 

 them below; the prseorbital notched anteriorly, and toothed posteriorly; 

 the extremity does not entirely cover the end of the maxillary. Eyes 

 without an adipose membrane. The second dorsal and anal fins scaly ; the 

 anterior dorsal spines one-half the length of the head. Caudal forked. 

 The eleventh, the twelfth, and the twenty-third scales of the lateral 

 line correspond to the extremity of the pectoral, and to the origins of 

 the first and second dorsal fins. Sides silvery, darker along the back; 

 a black spot superiorly in the axil of the pectoral. 



Length, 6 inches. 



Locality : Lagoons of Christmas Island. 



MUR^NIDiE. 



MUE^NA PICTA, Aid [No. 19247]. 



Murcena picta, J. N. Ahl, de Murocu. et OphicMli., in Thunberg's Dissert., iii, 1793, 6, 



pi. 2, f. 2. — Playfaik & GtiNTHER, Fish. Zanz., 186(), 126.— Gunther, Cat. 



Fish., viii, 1870, 116. 

 Gymnotiiorax pictus, Bloch, Syst. Ichth., ed. Schn., 1801, 529. — Bleeker, Atl. Ichth., 



iv, ia64, 87, pi. 170, f. 3, 4, pi. 172, f. 3, pi. 173, f. 1, pi. 189, f. 3.— Kner, 



Fisch. Novara Exped., 1869, 384. 

 Murcenophis pantherina, Lacepede, Hist, des Poiss., v, 1803, 628,641,643. 

 Murcena variagata, QuoY & Gaimard, Voy. Urau., Poiss., 1824, pi. 52, f. 1. 

 Murwna Vila, Richardson, Zool. Voy. Ereb. &, Terr., Fish., 1846, 84.— Bleeker, Nat. 

 Tyds. Ned. Ind., iii, 1852, 294; s, 1856, 283; Verb. Bat. Gen., xxv, 1853, Murcen., 47. 

 Murcena sidera, Richardson, op. cit., 85, pi. 48, f. 1-5. 



