MUGIL. 



91 



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

 scries of scales. 



Total length 550 millim. 



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

 Type in Paris Museum. 



1-2. Yg. Const o£ Egypt. J. Potlrerick, Esq. (C). 



3. Ad. Madeira. Hon. C. Baring and W. P. 



Ogilvie-Grant, Esq. (P.). 



4. Yg. „ J. Y. Johnson, Esq. (P.). 



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



Fig. 53. 



Mugil seheli 

 Zanzibar. I 



8. MUGIL SEHELI. 



Forsk. Descr. Anim. p. 73 (1775) ; Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xi. p. 152 (183G) ; 



Klunz. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Y\ T ien, xx. 1870, p. 827 ; Day, Fish. Ind. p. 355 



(1876); Klunz. Fische Roth. Meer. p. 132, pi. x. fig. 1 (1884). 

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



t. c. p. 128 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish.iii. p. 445 (18G1) ; Day, op. cit. p. 356 ; Sauv. 



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

 Mugil 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. 

 ? Myxus 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 4f 

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

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

 4| times in length of head, If to 2\ times in interorbital width ; 



