800 FISHES OF INDIA. 



canines, although present, are merely half the size of those in the mandibles. Fins — 

 the dorsal commences above or slightly before the orbits, and extends posteriorly to the 

 root of the caudal fin to which it is not joined : the anal begins beneath the seventeenth 

 dorsal ray and similarly reaches the root of the caudal fin. The rays of both fins are 

 simple, unbranched, and higher than the body. In the Australian examples the caudal 

 fin was distinct with no elongated central ray, but this last was observed by Jerdon at 

 Madras. Colours — alternate bands of dark and light ash : the fins opaline : the dorsal 

 with a black and narrow white-edged margin, becoming widened anteriorly into blotches. 



Habitat. — Coromandel coast of India, and New South Wales, possibly Madagascar, and 

 probably the South Sea. It attains at least 14 feet in length. Jerdon observed, " said to- 

 be venomous." 



Page 349. For Mctgil caeinatds read M. kltjnzingeei. Omit,synonym 

 Mugil carinatus, C. Y. 

 Add Mugil Jclunzingeri, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 264. 



Page 349. Add Mugil cabinatus. 



(Ehr.) Cuv. and Val. xi, p. l48. 



D. 4/i, P. 14, V. 1/5, A. f , C. 15, L. 1. 38, L. tr. 12-13. 



Length of head from 4i to 4|, of caudal fin 4i, height of body 4i in the total length. 

 JSyes — diameter i of the length of the head, nearly 1 diameter from the end of the snout 

 and 1^ diameters apart. The greatest width of the head equals its length behind the last 

 third of the eye. Eye with a narrow posterior adipose lid. Interorbital space flat. Upper 

 lip rather thick: preorbital scaleless, moderately curved and serrated: the end of the 

 maxilla visible. The mandibular bones form an obtuse angle : the uncurved space on the 

 chin is broadly lanceolate. About 25 rows of scales between the snout and the origin of' 

 the dorsal fin. Fins — first dorsal higher than the second, its spines of moderate strength^ 

 the height of the first being equal to the width of the head : the fin commences above the- 

 tenth scale of the lateral- line, the second dorsal above the twenty-first: the pectoral 

 reaches the eleventh scale. Soft dorsal and anal fins scaled, the latter commencing very 

 slightly in advance of the vertical of the former. The lowest depth of the free portion of 

 the tail equal to 2i in the length of the head. Scales — no elongated one in the axil, one 

 along the base of the first dorsal, also at the ventral : the scales on the back from iu front 

 of the first dorsal fin form a sort of keel for some little distance. Colours — ^golden around 

 the eye, no black pectoral spot. 



Habitat. — Red Sea and seas of India. 

 Page 350. For Mugil planiceps read M. tade. Add synonym. 



Mugil tade, Forsk. p. 74; Cuv. and Val. xi, p. 153 ; Klunz. F. R. M. p. 133, t. x, f. 3 and 3a.. 

 Page 353. Mugil (Eue. Add synonym. 



Myxus superficialis, Klunz. F. R. M. synopsis, i, p. 831 (young) . 

 Page 355. Mugil cebnilabeis. Add synonyms. 



Mugil cirrhostomus, Forster, Desc. Anim. pp. 198, 257. 

 „ fasciatus, Cuv. and Val. xi, p. 125. 

 „ macrochilus, Bleeker, 1854, p. 53. 

 „ rwppellii, Giinther, Catal. iii, p. 458. 



Page 376. Regalecus eussellii. Add synonym. 



Begalecus pacificus, Haast, Trans. N. Z. Inst, xi, p. 269. 

 Page 378. Amphipeion seb^s;. Add synonym. 



Prochilus sebce, Bleeker, Nat. Verb. HoU. 1877, p. 30, and Atl. Ich. t. cccc. Pom. t. i, f. 9. 

 Page 379. Amphipeion bifasciata. Add synonym. 



AmpMprion trifasciatum, Cuv. and Val. v, p. 395. 



„ intermedius, Sohleg. Overs Amph. &c. p. 19. 



Goracinus mttatus, Gronov. ed. Gray, p. 85. 



Prochilus bifasciatus, Bleeker, Nat. Verb. HoU. 1877, p. 31, and Atl. Ich. Pom. t. i, f. 4, 5, 6.. 



Page 381. Teteadeachmum maeginatum. Add synonyms. 



Heliastes reiiculatus, Richards. Ich. China, p. 254. 



Fomacentrus unifasciatus, Kner, Sitz. Wien. Ak. 1868, Iviii, p. 348, f. 24. 



