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Soft vertical fins scaly basally. Dorsal IV-I, 8 or 9; Anal II, 9; caudal emarginate; pectoral but slightly less than head, with long axillary scale: ventral 12/5. Back pale olivaceous, below whitish. No dark spot at pectora! base. Iris whitish. Reaches 470 mm.

China, Amoy, Hong Kong (Red Sea, Arabia, India, Ceylon, Andamans, Malaya, East Indies, Philippines, Queensland, Micronesia*, Polynesia).

Mugil longimanus Günther.

Mugil longimanus Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 428. East Indies. Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, 1914, p. 61 (Hong Kong). -Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 104 (reference).

Most soft

Depth 3 2/5 to 4; head 3 2/5 to 4, width 13/4 to 1 4/5. Snout 4 in head; eye 3 3/5 to 4, with broad adipose lids; maxillary 334, concealed, reaches eye; upper lip width 1⁄2 of pupil; interorbital 2 1/5 to 23, broadly convex. Scales 33 to 37, transversely 11 to 12, predorsal 18 to 20. vertical fins finely scaled. Dorsal IV-I, 8 or 9; Anal III, 9; caudal deeply emarginate, scaly basally; pectoral 1 to 1 1/10 in head, reaches beyond spinous dorsal origin, with large axillary scale; ventral 1 2/5. Back grey brown or olive, rows of scales on back and side above with grey brown line. Dorsal, caudal and pectoral greyish, last dusky basally above. Lower fins and iris whitish Length 223 mm.

Hong Kong (Portuguese East Africa*, India, Malaya, East Indies, Philippines*, Queensland, Polynesia*).

Mugil carinatus Valenciennes.

Mugil carinatus Ehrenberg, in Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 11, 1836, p. 148. Red Sea; Seychelles; Guam.-Oshima, Annotat. Zool. Japon., vol. 11, No. 1, March 31, 1926, p. 19 (Haiho, Hainan).-Wu, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, 1929, p. 79, fig. 63 (Amoy).—Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 104 (reference).

Depth 42; head 4 2/5. Snout 41⁄2 in head; eye 4, with broad adipose lids; maxillary end exposed; interorbital 223 in head, slightly convex. Scales 41, transversely 14. Dorsal IV-I, 8; Anal III, 9; pectoral 16, with axillary scale, 1 2/5 in head; ventral rays I, 5, fin 134 in head. White, dorsal surface darker. Length 183 mm. without caudal."

(Wu.)

Hainan, Amoy (Red Sea, India). Although Day gives scales 34 to 36 in a lateral series his figure shows 40, of which 40 appear to be on the caudal base.

Mugil cephalus Linnaeus.

Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, pt. 1, 1758, p. 316. European Ocean.-Jordan and Seale, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, 1905, p. 521 (Hong Kong; Shanghai).-Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 1906, p. 516 (Port Arthur, Manchuria).—Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, 1914, p. 61 (Hong Kong).—Evermann and Shaw, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., vol. 16, No. 4, Jan. 31, 1927, p. 114 (Hangchow).-Reeves. Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-Sep. 1927, p. 8 (Chingwangtao to Hong Kong). Sowerby, Nat. Manchuria, vol. 4, 1930, p. 157 (Pei tai Ho).—Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 603 (Hong Kong).

The Hong Kong Naturalist

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