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Atherina vaigiensis (^I'ov & Gaimari). 

 Voy. rranif. Zool., lS2o, |). oiri. 



Fifteen specimens, No. 05820, 85 to 4| inches long from Makemo, Paumotu 

 Islands. Six specimens No. 09017, I5 to 2 inches long from Guam. One hun- 

 dred antl thirty-eight specimens from Moen, Ti'uk Group, Caroline Islands, 

 as follows: — 



M. C. Z. 29394, No. 08906, forty-eight specimens 1^ to 2? inches, M. C. Z. 

 29488, No. 09084, thirty-one specimens ll to 2^ inches, and No. 08983, fifty- 

 nine specimens 1 to 3| inches long. 



Of the 59 specimens twenty examined show dorsal spines to vary from IV 

 to VI, and rays 1, 10 or 11 ; anal I, 14 to I, 16; there are but two with IV spines 

 in dorsal, seven with Y, and eleven with VI. There are five with 10 dorsal 

 rays, the others having 11 rays. There are three with 14 anal rays, sixteen with 

 15 rays, and one with 16 rays. There seems to be a true spine in front of the 

 anal and a simple ray in front of the dorsal. Scales range from 43-46 but they 

 cannot be counted with certainty, three of them apparently having 43, thirteen 

 44, two 45, and two 46. The eyes vary somewhat in relation to interorbital, 

 but this is due doubtless to the action of the preservative. In some instances 

 the eye is very little longer than interorbital width, in others somewhat more 

 so, and in others very much more .so. Some of these specimens have a slightly 

 longer maxillary than others, and some are somewhat darker than others. 

 These latter differences do not seem to be related to anj^ particular variation 

 shown in the other differences mentioned. 



Giinther has identified this species, erroneously we believe, with Atherina 

 lacxmosa. It is very close to, if not identical with, Atherina forskalii of Riippell. 

 It agrees with Day's description and figure of A. forskalii. 



Atherina uisila Jordan & Seale. 

 Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 191)0, 25, p. 21(i, fig. 23. 



One specimen No. 09046, 3? inches long from Wotje Atoll, Marshall Islands. 

 Dorsal VI-I, 9; anal I, 12; scales 44 (48). 



