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OYPRINODONTID^. 



FUNDULUS BEEMUD^, Gunther. 

 Fandulus Bermuda, Gunther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 1874. 



Very common iu tbe brackish water of the swamps aud in ditche?. 

 Attains the length of four inches. 



SYNODONTIDJE. 



SYNODUS LACERTA, ( Valenciennes) Goode. 

 Snake-fish. 



Salmo Sauriis, Linn*:, Syst. Nat. 2 ed. 11, 511, 1766; Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1, 1376. 

 Saurus lacerta, Cuv & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. xxii, 463, 1849 (not Eisso). 

 Saums griseus, Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii, 188, 1841. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 

 V, 395. 



A specimen, seventeen inches long, was taken off the " ducking-stool'' 

 in March, by a line fisherman. Its occurrence in this part of the Atlantic 

 is very novel, but it agrees closely with a specimen of ISaurus griseus 

 sent to the United States National Museum by Dr. Glinther. Its color 

 was dusky-gray above, yellow below. Its formulae are as'follows: — 



Branchiostegals, 16-17 (on opposite sides). D. 12 ; A. 12. Lateral 



line, 60. Transverse line, -^. 



ELOPID^. 



MEGALOPS THRISSOIDES, {Block) Gilnther. 

 Tarpum. 



Camaripueuagu, Marcgrave, Hist. &c. Brasil, 1648, 179. 



Clupea q/prinoides, Bloch, Icbth., sii, 1797, 24, tab. cccciii. 



Clupea thrissoides, Schneider, Blocb, Syst. Icbth. 1801, 424. 



Megalops thrissoides, Gunther, Cat. Fisb. Brit. Mus. vii, 1868, 472.— Gill, iu Baird'a 



Eep. on Sea Fisheries of Southern New England, 1873, 810. 

 Clupea apalike, HAtJY, Encyclopedia M6tbodique. — LACEPioE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. v, 1803, 



425, 461. 

 Clupea gigantea, Siiaw, Gen. Zool. v, 1803, 173. 

 Megalops atlanticus, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. xix, 1846, 398.— Muller «fe Tro- 



schel, Schomburgk's Hist. Barbados, 1848, 676.— Poey, Eep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 



1868, 423. 



Extremely rare; a single skin about six feet long was shown me 

 in the collection of John T. Bartram, of Saint George's. The species 



