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MUGILID2E. 



XXX. 



fig. 1 



Mugil ramada, Kisso, Hist. Nat. Ear. Merid. iii. p. 390 (1826). 

 Mugil britannicus, Hancock, Lond. Quart. Journ. Sc. 1830, p. 129. 

 Mugil dubahra, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. GO. 

 Mugil capensis (non C. & V.), A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Fish. pi. 



(1846) ; Oasteln. Mem. Po'ss. Afr. Austr. p. 46 (1861). 

 Mugil multilineatus, A. Smith, 1. c. fig. 2. 

 Mugil smithii, Casteln. op. cit. p. 47. 

 Mugil odoradiatus, Giinth. Cat. iii. p. 437 (part.) ; Lortet, t. c. p. 133, pi. xi. 



fig. 2. 

 Mugil petherici, Giinth. t. c. p. 441, and Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 211. 

 Mugil curtus (non Yarrell), Lortet, t. c. p. 132, pi. xi. fig. 1. 

 Mugil auratus (non Risso), Lortet, t. c. p. 134, pi. xi. fig. 3. 

 ? Liza alosoides, H. W. Fowler, Proc. Ac. Philad. lv. 1903, p. 746, pi. xlv. 



Depth of body 4 to 5 times in total length, length of head 3| (young) 

 to 4^ times. Snout nearly as long as eye in adult, shorter in young ; 



Fig. 49. 



Mugil capito. 

 L. Meuzaleh (F. N.). 



eye perfectly lateral in young, better visible from below than from above 

 in adult, with a mere rudiment of adipose lid, its diameter 3 (young) 

 to 5 times in length of head, 1 to 2\ times in interorbital width ; nostrils 

 close together ; mouth forming an obtuse angle ; maxillary nearly com- 

 pletely hidden when the mouth is closed ; upper lip narrow, its diameter 

 less than half that of the eye ; a lanceolate space between the rami of the 

 lower jaw ; prseorbital with the edge finely serrated ; 4 or 5 series of 

 scales on the cheek. Dorsals IV (exceptionally III or V), II 9-10; the 

 first two spines \ to f length of head, the longest ray about i or a little 

 less than ^ length of head ; second dorsal originating above anterior third 

 of anal. Anal III 9 (exceptionally 8 or 10). Pectoral f to § length of 

 head ; a large scaly process above the axil. Caudal deeply emarginate, 



