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ever since the days of the earliest kings. A full discussion of this subject is given elsewhere in this 
report. 
We are unable to find any difference between the Hawaiian ama ama and the striped mullets of 
the United States, Japan, Chile, or the Mediterranean. If different from any of these it is distinct 
from all and should receive a new name. 
Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 316, 1758, European Ocean (based on Artedi); Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus. 1884,263; Jordan & Evermann, Fish. North and Mid. Amer., I, 811,1896; Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 
1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 438(Honolulu). 
Mugil dlbnla Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII, 520, 1766, Charleston, S. C. (Coll. Dr. Carden); Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 403, 
1883; Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Jan. 19, 1904), 523 (Waimea, Huleia, and Hanapepe rivers, Kauai, 
Honolulu; Station 3844 off southern coast of Molokai). 
Mugil tang Bloch, Ichthyologia, XI, 134, pi. 395, 1797, Guinea, Tranquebar. 
Mugil plumicri Bloch, op. cit., 136, pi. 396, 1797, St. Vincent, W. I. (on a drawing by Plumicr). 
Mugil ocur Forskal, Red Sea. 
Mugil ecphalotus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 98, 1836, Pondicherry. 
Mugil lincatus Mitchill in Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 96, 1836, New York. 
Mugil raminclsbergii Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Ichth., 20, 1845, Peru. 
Mugil bcrlandicri Girard, U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., 20, pi. 10, figs. 1 to 4, 1859, St. Josephs Island, Indianola; Brazos 
Santiago; Brazos; Galveston; all on the coast of Texas (coll. Wurclemann, Clark, and Kennedy). 
Mugil mcxicanus Steindaehner, Ichth. Beitrage, III, 58, pi. VIII, 1875, Acapulco (no adipose eyelid shown on plate). 
Mugil ccphalotus Eydoux & Souleyet, Voy. Bonite, I, 175, pi. 4, 1841, Sandwich Islands; Streets, Bull. IT. s. Nat. Mils., No. 
7,73, 1877 (Honolulu). 
Mugil cephalus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 19, 1836 (Mediterranean). 
Mugil guentkcn. Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 169 (western coastof Central America); not of Steindaehner. 
Mugil dobula, Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, VI, 214, plate CXX, fig. a, 1877 ( Hawaiian Islands); Gunther, Shore Fishes, Chal¬ 
lenger, 61, 1880 (Hilo, Hawaii); Steindaehner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, LXX, 1900, 501 (Honolulu); not of Gunther, 
Cat., Ill, 420, 1861, a species from rivers of western Australia. 
Mugil kelaartii , Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 500; ibid, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1903, 743 (Sandwich Islands); not 
of Gunther. 
Genus 82. CH.7EN0MUGIL Gill. 
Cleft of mouth lateral; lower jaw narrow; dentiform cilia in very many series, broad, flat, and 
somewhat paved; upper lip very thick; no adipose eyelid. Small mullets of the tropical shores. 
Chsenomugil Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 3.69 (proboscideus). 
98. Chaenomugil chaptalii (Eydoux & Souleyet) “ Uouda .” Fig. 41). 
Head 4 in length; depth 3.9; snout 3.75 in head; eye 3.4; D. iv-i, 9; A. in, 10; scales 43,-13. 
Body robust, more compressed posteriorly; head moderate; snout suhconic, rather pointed; mouth 
slightly oblique, its cleft deeper than long; maxillary entirely hidden; front part of upper lip very 
thick; lower margin of each lip covered with rather strong papilla* or weak pectinate teeth; lower jaw 
included, rather narrow; no teeth evident; eye large, anterior; interorbital space convex, 2 in head; 
first dorsal spine 2 in head; soft dorsal and anal slightly convex; caudal forked, lower lobe the longer 
and heavier; ventrals truncate; pectoral falcate, 1.3 in head. 
