. Catalogue of the fishes in the ... Museum. 426 MUGILID.^i. below the front edge of the snout. The maxillary is bent down- wards behind the angle of the mouth, a narrow portion of its ex- tremity remaining visible when the mouth is closed; prteorbital slightly emarginate anteriorly. The angle made by the anterior margins of the mandibulary bones is nearly a right one; the cleft of the mouth is more than twice as broad as it is deep ; the mandibles cover nearly entirely the chin, leaving between them only a very short lanceolate free space. There are eighteen scales between the snout and the s
. Catalogue of the fishes in the ... Museum. 426 MUGILID.^i. below the front edge of the snout. The maxillary is bent down- wards behind the angle of the mouth, a narrow portion of its ex- tremity remaining visible when the mouth is closed; prteorbital slightly emarginate anteriorly. The angle made by the anterior margins of the mandibulary bones is nearly a right one; the cleft of the mouth is more than twice as broad as it is deep ; the mandibles cover nearly entirely the chin, leaving between them only a very short lanceolate free space. There are eighteen scales between the snout and the spinous dorsal; the tenth or eleventh and the twenty-first scales of the lateral line correspond to the origin of the dorsal fins. The pectoral is longer than the head, the length of the snout not included, and extends to, or slightly beyond, the origin of the dorsal; it is inserted somewhat above the middle of the depth of the body, and has a long pointed scale in its axil. The anterior third of the anal fin falls before the commencement of the opposite dorsal fin; both are scaly; Chinese Sea. a. Type of the species. Hongkong. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. b-c, d, e, f-h, i, Tc. Half-grown and young. China. I am well aware of several differences between Sir J. Richardson's and my descriptions, and observe that both are taken from one and the same typical M. strongylocephalus. caudal emarginate. 15. Mugil parsia. Mugil parsia, Buch, Ham. Fish. Ganq. p. 215. pi. 17. fig. 71; Cwr. «§• Vol. xi. p. 144; (not Bleek.). D. 4 L. lat. 35. L. transv. 12. The greatest depth of the body is below the origin of the first dorsal, and contained four times and a half in the total length, or once and four-fifths in the distance of the snout from the dorsal; the length of the head is one-fifth of the total. The least depth of the tail is a little more than one-half the length of the head. Snout short, broad, depressed, with the anterior margin acute, the upper lip being quite at i
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