142 UMBRINA LITTORALIS. 



Dr. DeKay, in the ichthyological part of his Fauna of New York, gives a good 

 figure of the animal, in which the long ray of the dorsal fin is well marked ; but 

 he also adopts the opinion of Cuvier and Valenciennes. Nor is this so remark- 

 able ; for neither Dr. Storer nor Dr. DeKay had ever seen the Southern animal, 

 or Umbrina alburnus, at the time their works were published. 



It seems, then, that these two fishes, the Umbrina alburnus and Umbrina 

 nebulosa, though nearly allied, and closely resembling each other at first sight, 

 are really not only specifically distinct, but have an entirely diff"erent geograph- 

 ical distribution; the one is a Southern animal, the other is peculiar to the 

 North ; the one is never found north of Cape Hatteras, nor the other, so far 

 as I know, south of it. 



UMBRINA LITTOUALIS. — Holbrook. 



Plate XX. Fig. 1. 



Specific Characters. Body silvery-white, immaculate ; outer row of large 

 separated teeth in the upper jaw wanting. D. 10-1-27. V. 1-5. A. 1-9. 

 P. 18. 



Synonyme. Surf Whiting. 



Description. The general forms of this fish are so precisely the same as those 

 of the Umbrina alburnus as to need no description, the snout only being a little 

 more full and rounded in front. It is, therefore, only necessary to notice the 

 particular characters in which it diff"ers from the other, or those that constitute it a 

 distinct species. 



I. The Umbrina littoralis has teeth similar to those of the Umbrina alburnus, 

 but the outer, larger, and separated row is wanting. 



