MOEONE. 

 Measurements (in millimetres) and numbers of fin-rays and scales. 



449 



Total length (without caudal) ....... 



Greatest depth of body 



Length of head 



Width of head 



Length of snout 



Diameter of eye , 



Interorbital width 



Length of longest dorsal spine 



„ „ ,, soft ray . . . 



„ pectoral 



Number of spines in. first dorsal 



„ soft rays in second dorsal 



„ anal 



scales in lateral line 



1,2. L. Menzaleh. — Loat. 



1. 



2. 



3. 



280 



410 



385 



100 



102 



64 



108 



112 



82 



63 



61 



39 



33 



33 



22 



17 



17 



15 



28 



29 



20 



46- 



45 



38 



45 



43 



33 



64 



61 



43 



9 



9 



9 



13 



13 



12 



10 



10 



10 



76 



78 



| 80 



3. Nile near Cairo. — Flower. 



Mr. Loat observes that this fish may be found with roe from November till the end 

 of March, and that this roe is prepared as " battarah," and considered nearly as good 

 as that of the Bouri (Mugil cephalus). 



2. MOKONE PUNCTATA. 



Sciama punctata, Bloch, Nat. Ausl. Fische, vi. p. 64, pi. cccv. (1792). 



Perca punctulata, Lacepede, Hist. Poiss. iv. p. 418 (1802). 



Perca punctata, I. Geoffroy, Descr. Egypte, Poiss. p. 316, pi. xx. fig. 2 (1827). 



Labrax punctatus, Giinther, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xii. 1863, p. 175 ; Brito Capello, Jorn. Sc. 

 Lisb. i. 1867, p. 154, figs. ; Steindachner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ivi. i. 1867, p. 607, and lx. i. 1869, 

 p. 671 ; Moreau, Poiss. France, ii. p. 337, fig. (1881) ; Doderlein, Man. Ittiol. Medit. iv. p. 23 

 (1889) ; Bellotti, Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. xxxiii. 1891, p. 121. 



Labrax orientalis, Giinther, 1. c. 



Labax schoenleinii, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1865, p. 95, and 1866, p. 512. 



3m 



