5U<J SBALE. 



Family MUGILID^. The Mullets. 



Mugil Joioensis Seale, sp. nov. Plate IV.' (Banak.) 



Head 4.30; depth 3.60; dorsal IV, I, 7; anal I, 9; scales 33, 10 in 

 vertical series; eye 3.30 in head; snout 4.10; interorbital space 1.95; 

 maxillary exposed at tip ; mandible 2.75 ; pectorals equal to head ; 

 ventrals 1.30; least depth of caudal peduncle 2. 



Body moderately elongate, compressed, the greatest depth being in 

 middle of body, the depth of the caudal peduncle is scarcely less than 

 its length (measured to axil of dorsal). The profile from origin of 

 spinous dorsal to snout is almost a straight line. 



Interorbital space is moderately convex. Top of snout almost flat. 

 Greatest width of head 1.45 in its depth. Depth of head at middle of 

 eye 1.75 in length. Snout short and blunt. The preorbital has a very 

 deep notch, its depth being greater than width of pupil. The upper lip 

 is very thick, with a fold, and fringed with a row of papilla, an additional 

 row of pipillffi on the lip just above the fold, an additional fringed fold 

 at each corner of the mouth ; under lip with moderately broad membrane. 

 The nostrils are situated directly above the posterior margin of preorbital 

 notch. Teeth on tongue, vomer, and palatine, none in jaws. Eye with 

 but the slightest indication of adipose eyelid, which is present as a 

 narrow rim to orbit. Snout is much broader than long, it is fully tipped 

 by the broad maxillary. There are four soft differentiated areas between 

 the scales on preopercle. Gill openings large being carried forward to 

 ^lnder pupil. Gill rakers numerous slender, longest about equal to pupil. 

 Pseudobranchia present. 



Body and head covered with large smooth scales which are slightly 

 ctenoid at margin. A single small ridge in center of each scale. About 

 nineteen scales in front of dorsal fin; soft dorsal and anal scaled. 

 Pectorals without axillary scale. An axillary scale at ventrals. Eleven 

 rows of scales between the origin of the dorsals. 



The spinous dorsal is midway between end of caudal vertebra and 

 middle of pupil, the longest spine 1.70 in head. Origin of soft dorsal 

 midway between end of last caudal vertebra and origin of first dorsal 

 being over the middle of anal, its longest ray equal to longest anal ray, 

 1.50 in head. Origin of anal is slightly nearer end of caudal vertebra 

 than to origin of .ventrals. The ventrals are midway between anal and 

 anterior margin of orbit. The upper portion of pectoral base is on a 

 line with upper margin of e3'e. Caudal fin is rather deeply emarginate 

 its length greater than head. 



Color in alcohol silvery with wash of yellowish, grayish above. Upper 

 third of pectorals washed with dusky; soft dorsal, anterior rays of anal, 

 and tip of caudal also slightly washed with duskj'. No stripes on body, 



* In our figure the spinous dorsal and the ventrals are drawn too far forward. 



