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not very long. The least depth of the tail is less than one-half the 
length of the head. 
Silvery^ shining golden^ with darker stripes along the series of 
seales ; a blackish spot superiorly at the base of the pectoral. 
A single specimen,, ten and a half inches long, was obtained by 
Mr. Petherick at Cairo. 
Mugil saliens, Pisso. 
D. 4 1 i. A. |. L. lat. 45. L. transv. 15. 
The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is 
contained five times and a half in the total. The snout is mode- 
rately broad, somewhat tapering anteriorly; the width of the in- 
terorbital space is one-third of the length of the head. The angle 
made by the two mandibulary bones is a right one ; the prseorbital 
does not entirely cover the maxillary. Eyes without adipose mem- 
brane; nostrils close together, the posterior being in the middle 
between the anterior and the orbit. Lips not very thick, not 
covered by the nasal bones. The space at the chin, between the 
mandibularies and the interopercula, is elongate, tapering anteriorly. 
The two anterior dorsal spines are half as long as the head; the 
pectoral terminates at some distance from the vertical from the 
origin of the dorsal, and its root is somewhat above the middle of 
the body. Dark shining streaks along the series of scales. 
Mugil cryptochilus , Valenc. 
D. 4 I 1^. A. f. L. lat. 45. 
The nasal bones are advanced, so as to cover the upper lip when 
the mouth is closed. The prseorbital does not entirely cover the 
