MUGIL EURONOTUS.— Smith. 
Pisces. — Plate XXIX. Fig. 2 & 2 a. 
M. capite superne dorsoque viridi-brunneis ; lateribus griseo-albis pallide violaceo nebulatis ; corporis 
squamis seriebus longitudinalibus tredecim dispositis ; squamis capitis inter nares parvis ; naribns 
duplicibus approximate. 
Colour.— The upper surface of the head and the back intermediate be- 
tween pale brownish red and oil-green ; sides superiorly a very pale tint of 
the same colour as that of the back ; sides inferiorly and the belly greyish 
white clouded with pale violet-purple; space under eyes and the sides of the 
head in front of operculum tinted with ochre-yellow. Operculum, back, and 
sides tinted here and there with violet-purple. Fins intermediate between 
pale brownish purple-red and pale lavender-purple, the ventral and anal 
tinted with yellow. 
Form, &c.— Figure moderately slender; dorsal outline slightly arched, 
ventral, between apex of lower jaw and the hinder extremity of the base of 
the anal fin, strongly arched, between anal and caudal fins nearly straight; a 
scale with a prolonged point in the axilla of each ventral fin. Head small, 
conical, and moderately long ; nose rather narrow and slightly arched ; body 
and tail, measured to the centre of the latter, very nearly four times the 
length of the head. Nostrils double on each side, close to each other, and 
the hinder one rather the largest. Three nearly horizontal rows of quadran- 
gular scales under each eye; scales of operculum large, the hinder edge of 
each semicircular. Scales of back, sides, and belly large and disposed in 
thirteen longitudinal rows, forty-four scales in the row immediately over the 
base of the pectoral fin. Hinder edge of second dorsal and anal fins lunate, of 
ventrals nearly even ; hinder edge of pectoral fins superiorly pointed, else- 
where slightly arched, caudal fin slightly lunated. The membranes connect- 
ing the rays of all the fins semi-pellucid. Upper jaw with a row of short 
criniform teeth. Length of specimen described ten inches. 
1 D. 4; 2 D. 7; P. 15; V. \\ A. 10; C. 14. 
Inhabits the seas of the eastern and western coasts. 
