1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes, 1077 



length of the head ; at the root of the caudal it is one half of the 

 greatest. It is described as having no teeth. 



Mugil macrolepidotus, Riippell. 

 Muge christian, Quoy et Gaimard : Voy. de Freycinet. 

 Mugil macrolepidotus, Riippell : Atlas, Fische, p. 140, Taf # 



32, Fig. 2. 

 Mugil macrolepidotus, Cuv. and Val. XI. 134. 

 Mugil macrolepidotus, Richardson : Report, 1845, 249. 

 Young. Head above and back pale bluish green ; lighter, silvery, on 

 the sides of the head and abdomen ; opercle steel blue ; on the sides 

 four parallel pale blackish lines ; dorsal, caudal, and anal spines, rays, 

 and membranes minutely dotted with black ; on the dorsals and anal 

 so closely as to give the marginal half a black appearance ; ventrals 

 white, posterior half of the three anterior rays minutely dotted with 

 black ; upper ten pectoral rays black, the rest white. Iris silvery. 

 D 4—1/8, C 14 f , A 3/8, V 1/5, P 16, Br. VI. 

 Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 



Waigiou, Rawak, Borabora, Vanikolo isles, Malabar, Red 

 Sea, China Seas? 

 Total length : 5 inch. 



The length of the head is 4 \ in the total ; the height at occiput f of 

 the length. The diameter of the eyes is 3^ in the length of the head ; 

 their distance across the forehead equals two diameters. The anterior 

 margin of the infraorbital bone is arched, so as to receive the angle of 

 the lips, and as well as the inferior truncated margin finely toothed. 

 The young has no perceptible teeth ; M. M. Cuvier and Valenciennes 

 describe them as short and fine in the adult. The posterior margin of 

 the preopercle has three deep indentations. The vertical diameter in 

 front of the first dorsal spine slightly exceeds \ of the total length ; 

 that in front of the caudal fin is less than one half of the former. A 

 straight line between the gill-opening and the root of the caudal con- 

 tains 29 scales ; an oblique series in front of the anterior dorsal fin 9. 

 The first dorsal spine is scarcely \ of the length of the head, and less 

 strong than in M. parmatus. A single individual was observed at 

 Pinang in August, 1843. 



Mugil cephalotus, Cuv. and Val. 

 Mugil our, Forskal, Consp. p. XIV. No. 109, Var. 8? 



