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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 Linnfeus, Syst. Nat., Erl. X, 316, 1758, European Ocean (based on Artedi); Jordan & Swain, Proc. XJ. 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 atbula Llnnseus, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII, 520, 1766, Charleston, S. C. (Coll. Dr. Garden); 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 oft southern coast of Molokai). 
Mugil tang Bloch, Ichthyologia, XI, 134, pi. 395, 1797, Guinea, Tranquebar. 
Mugil plumieri Bloch, op. cit. , 136, pi. 396, 1797, St. Vincent, W. I. (on a drawing by Plunder). 
Mugil ocur Forskal, Red Sea. 
Mugil ceplialotus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 98, 1836, Pondicherry. 
Mugil linealus M itch ill in Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 96, 1836, New York. 
Mugil rammclsbergii Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Iehth., 20, 1845, Peru. 
Mugil berlandieri 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. Wurdemann, Clark, and Kennerly). 
Mugil mexicanus Steindachner, 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. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 
7, 73, 1877 (Honolulu). 
Mugil cephalus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 19, 1836 (Mediterranean). 
Mugil guentheri, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 169 (western coastof Central America); not of Steindachner. 
Mugil dobula, Gunther, Fischc der Stidsee, VI, 214, plate CXX, fig. a, 1877 ( Hawaiian Islands); Gunther, Shore Fishes, Chal- 
lenger, 61, 1880 (Hilo, Hawaii); Steindachner, Denlts. 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.ENOMUGIL 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, 169 (proboscideus) . 
98. Chaenomug-il chaptalii (Eydoux & Souleyet) “ Uouoa.” Fig. 49. 
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 subconic, 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 papilhe 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. 
