82 



25. Yk. 



MUGILID.i:. 



B:ilir-el-Tawilah,fresliwater L. Loat, Esq. (C). 

 caual. 



2()-29. Ad. & hgr. Nile near Samannud. 



30. Ad. Nile. 



31-40. Ad.,ligr.,&egg. St. Louis, Senegal. 



41. Yg. St. Jago, Cape Verd. 



42. Ad. Lagos. 



43. Hgr. Niger. 



44. Hgr. Banana, Lower Congo. 



45. Hgr. Cabinda. 



46, 47. Ad. & hgr., stffd. Cape of Good Hope. 



48. Yg. 



49. Hgr. 



Port Elizabeth. 



50-54. Yg. 



55. Ad. 



5G-57. Ad. & hgr. 



Durban. 



Natal. 



S. S. Allen, Esq. (V.). 

 M. P. Delhez (C). 

 H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 

 J. Cadman, Esq. (P.). 

 Mr. L. Eraser (C.;. 

 Capt. Wilverth ((.!.). 

 Dr. Jackson {().) ; Hon. 



W. Rothschild (P.). 

 Sir A. Smith (P.). 



55 

 5) 



F. W. Fitz Simons, Esq. 



(P.). 

 Mr. T. Ayres (C). 

 Dr. E. Warren (P.). 



2. MUGIL OEUR. 

 Forsk. Descr. Anim. p. 74 (1775) ; lliipp. N. Wirbelth. p. 131 (1840) ; Klunz. 



Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xx. 1870, p. 829 ; Day, Fish. Lid. p. 353, pi. l.xxv. 



iig. 3 (1876) ; Steind. Denkschr. Ak. Wien, xliv. 1882, p. 40 ; Klunz. Fische 



Roth. Meer. p. 132, pi. x. fig. 1 1 (1884). 

 Miir/il ceplialotus, C!uv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xi. p. 110 (1836) ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. 



iii. p. 419 (1861) ; Kner, Novara, Fische, p. 224 (1865) ; Bleek. Poiss. 



Madag. p. 45, pi. ii. fig. 1 (1874) ; Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. p. 402, 



pi. xlix.B. figs. 2 & 3 (1891). 

 MiKjil borhonicus, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 113 ; Sauv. op. cit. p. 395, pi. xlii. fig. 3. 

 Afi/.cus siiperficialis, Klunz. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xx. 1870, p. 831. 

 Mijxus coscutiens, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) xvii. 1876, p. 397 ; Sauv. op. cit. 



p. 404, pi. xlii. fig. 2. 



Depth of body nearly equal to length of head, 3^ to 4 times in total 

 length. Snoi;t as long as eye in adult, shorter in young ; eye perfectly 

 lateral in young, better visible from below than from above in adult, 

 partly covered by a much developed adipose lid, which extends in front 

 of and behind the orbit, 3 (young) to 4^ times in length of head, 1^ to 

 2 times in interorbital width ; nostrils rather widely separated from 

 each other; mouth forming a right angle; maxillary hidden when the 

 mouth is closed ; a lanceolate space between the rami of the mandible ; 

 upper lip narrow, its width less than ^ diameter of eye ; prseorbital with 

 the edge finely serrated ; 2 or 8 scries of scales on the cheek. Dorsals IX, 



