PISCES THORACICI. MULLUS. 
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purple, with azure lines running above the pectoral fin to the tail ; but lower towards the belly, they run on a 
changeable ground golden and white : the belly white, the throat white also, shaded with very faint pink. 
The dorsal fins purple, streaked with light blue; the pectoral pink; the anal white and pink, with a few 
cross streaks of straw-yellow : the ossicles of the caudal reddish purple, the membrane dark green. 
Length ten inches, and seldom exceeds fourteen. 
REMARKS. 
The red Mullet is rather a rare fish at Vizagapatam, and in quality inferior to the red Mullet of the 
Mediterranean, or of England. 
No. CLVIIL 
Mullus cirris duobus sub mento ; corpore squamis magnis sub-deciduis; lineis luteis longitudi- 
nalibus duabus ; pinna dorsi caudaquc lineis obliquis ircinsversis. 
The Mullus with two cirri under the chin ; the body covered with large loose scales ; two 
yellow fillets on the sides, and oblique, cross lines on the dorsal and caudal fins. 
Mullus surmuletus Linn. S.JP.p. 496. 
Called by the Natives Bandi Goolivinda. 
Jt JL_ 
B. iii. D. 8. 9. seu 7. 8. P. 16 . V. 6. A. 7. C. 18 . 
This fish, except in colour, agrees in most circumstances with the former. The scales are less deciduous; and 
the nostrils nearer the orbit. The body white; with two yellow fillets from the gills to the tail on each side, 
the upper crossing the lateral line. The belly and breast a greenish white. The dorsal and caudal fins streaked 
obliquely with white and dusky yellow fillets; the ventral and anal of a greenish white. 
The length seldom exceeds six inches. 
This fish abounds in the river, but is in no estimation. 
