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remain. Other examples of equal length have the first simple 

 anal raj scarcely developed into a spine, and in still others this 

 ray does not take on the character of a spine at all. Q u e r i - 

 mana harengus, the type of the genus, is the young of 

 Mugil curema, and Q. g y r a n s is the immature M u g i I 

 t r i c h d n. A; reexamination of the types ofQuerimana 

 g y r a n s shows the presence of 33 rows of scales in some ex- 

 amples instead of 29, as originally recorded. 



184 Mugil curema Cuv. & Yal. 

 White Mullet 



Mugil curema Ouvier & Valenciennes, Hist Nat. Poiss. XI, 87, 1836, 

 Brazil; Martinique; Cuba; Bean, Bull. U. S. F. C. VII, 145, 1888; 19tli 

 Eept. Oomm. Fish. N. Y. 272, pi. XXI, fig. 26, 1890; Jordan & Evee- 

 MANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 813, 1896, pi. CXXVI, fig. 344, 1900; 

 Bean, 52d Ann. Kept. N. Y. State Mus. 103, 1900: 



Mugil petrosus Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit. 88, 1836, Brazil to New 

 York; De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 147, 1842. 



Mugil trasiliensis Gunthee, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. Ill, 431, 1861; Jordan & 

 Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 408, 1883. 



Body ishaped like that of the striped mullet, its width equaling 

 two thirds of length of head, its greatest depth contained three 

 and one half to three and five sixths times in total length with- 

 out caudal; least depth of caudal peduncle equal to one half the 

 length of head; snout nearly as in M. cephalus, sometimes 

 with its outline more declivous, its length one fifth of length of 

 head; interorbital space slightly convex, its width nearly one 

 half the length*of head; thickness of upper lip scarcely one third 

 of length of upper jaw, space between the mandibles nearly 

 lanceolate, its width one sixth of its length; eyes covered with 

 an adipose membrane leaving only a space about as wide as the 

 pupil exposed, eye about two sevenths as long as the head; 

 head one fourth, or nearly one fourth, of total length without 

 caudal; teeth in outer row on premaxilla somewhat enlarged, 

 distant; scales rather large, about 22 rows between tip of snout 

 and origin of first dorsal; soft dorsal and anal densely scaled, 

 origin of spinous dorsal midway between tip of snout and base 

 of external caudal rays, directly over the 10th row of scales, 

 counting from the axil of the pectoral, the first spine nearly 

 two thirds as long as the head, the last spine less than one half 



