MUGIL. 



91 



series. Silvery or golden, back bluish grey; dark streaks along the 

 series of scales. 



Total length 550 millim. 



Atlantic, from Scandinavia to the Canary Ids. and Mediterranean. — 

 Type in Paris Museum. 



Const o£ Egypt. J. Potlierick, Esq. (C). 



Madeira. Hon. C. Baring and W. R. 



Ogilvie-Graiit, Esq. (P.). 

 J. Y. Johnson, Esq. (P.). 

 Lanzarote, Canary Ids. Rev. R. T. Lowe (P.). 



Ficr. 53. 



Mugil selieli. 

 Zanzibar. |-. 



8. MUGIL SEHELL 



Forsk. Descr. Anim. p. 73 (1775) ; Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xi. p. 152 (1836) ; 



Klunz. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xx. 1870, p. 827 ; Day, Fish. Ind. p. 355 



(187G); Klunz. Fische Roth. Meer. p. 132, pi. x. fig. 1 (1884). 

 Muyil cceruleo-maculatus, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. v. pp. 385, 389 (1802) ; Cuv. & Val. 



t. c. p. 128 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish.iii. p. 445 (1861) ; Day, op. cit. p. 356; Sauv. 



Hist. Madi.g., Poiss. p. 398, pi. xliii. fig. 2 (1891). 

 Alugil axillaris, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 131 ; Giinth. t. c. p. 444, and Fische Siidsee, 



p. 216, pi. cxx. fig. B-(1877); Sauv. op. cit. p. 397, pi. xliii. fig. 

 ? ifyxus trimaculatus, Klunz. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xx. 1870, p. 832. 



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

 times. Snout as long as eye in adult, shorter in youug; eye better 

 visible from below than from above, with mere rudiments of lids, 3^ to 

 i% times in length of head. If to 2+ times in interorbital width; 



