MUGIL. 



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IT 7; first two spines about ^ length of head, longest soft ray J to | 

 length of head; second dorsal originating above anterior third of anal. 

 Anal III 8. Pectoral f to f length of head ; a large scaly process 

 above the axil. Caudal forked, as long as head. Caudal peduncle 

 ]^ to 1-|- times as long as deep. 40-45 scales in longitudinal series, 

 14-15 in transverse series. Silvery, bluish grey above, without or with 

 slight (races of darker streaks running along the series of scales. 



Total length 340 millim. 



Indian Ocean, eastwards to Austi'alia. 



1-3. Hgr. Socotia. Prof. I. B. Balfour (P.). 



4. A(]. E. Madaoascar. Rev. R. Baron (C). 



5-6. Types of Myxus Rodriguez, in fresh water. G. Grulliver, Esq. (('.). 

 cmcuiiens. 



Ym. 48. 



Mugil oeui: 

 After Day (op. cit.). |. 



3. MUGIL CAPITO. 



Cuv. Rcgne Aiiim. 2iid ed. ii. p. 232 (1829) ; Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ita]., Pose. 



(1831) ; Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xi. p. 36, pi. cccviii. (1836) ; Yarrell, Brit. 



Fish. i. p. 200, fig. (1836) ; Giuehen. Explor. Alg., Poiss. p. 67 (1850) ; 



Nilsson, Skand. Faun. iv. p. 176 (1855) ; Glinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) vii. 



1861, p. 34G, and (Jat. Fish. iii. p. 439 (1861) ; Blanch. Poiss. France, p. 248, 



fig. (1866) ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ivii. i. 1868, p. 680 ; Glintli. Petherick's 



Trav. ii. p. 210 (1869) ; Moreau, Poiss. France, iii. p. 188 (1881) ; Day, Brit. 



Fish. p. 230, pi. xlvi. (1881) ; Lortet, Arch. Mus. Lyon, iii. 1883, p. 131, 



pi. X. fig. 2 ; Lilljeb. Sver. Norg. Fisk. i. p. 408 (1884) ; Smitt, Scand. Fish. i. 



p. 339, fig. (1893) ; Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 355 (1901), and Fish. 



Nile, p. 432, pi. Ixxx. fig. 2, and pi. Ixxxi. fig. 1 (1907). 

 MiKjll cephalus (non Linn.), Donovan, Brit. Fish. i. pl. xv. (1802). 

 Mugil cephalun, var. A, Risso, Ichthyol. Nice, p. 344 (1810). 



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