1644 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Family ATHERINIDZ. 
Menidia beryllina cerea Kendall. 
Short Finned Silversides. 
Color in alcohol pale greenish-yellow over upper surface, paler 
on sides and together with under surface silvery-white. Edge 
of each scale on back dusted with grayish dots, and these most 
pronounced on middle of back. Upper surface of head hyaline 
brownish, side and lower surface whitish and silvered. A leaden- 
silvery band from shoulder to base of caudal about equal to diam- 
eter of pupil, and turning dusky when long in alcohol. Iris 
silvery, slightly grayish to dusky above. Fins all more or less 
transparent, dorsal and caudal slightly olivaceous, other fins pale 
or whitish tinted. Along base of anal a pale narrow dusky 
streak of minute dots. Muzzle translucent grayish. Length 
23% inches. This is about the maximum size of those captured. 
They were abundant in the clear water and conspicuously trans- 
parent, while Menidia mendia notata was rare. When swimming 
they could always be distinguished, however, by their dark lateral 
streaks. They also associate with the shrimps, Gambusia and 
Lucania, and usually do not swim very far away when disturbed, 
though always in a compact school. New England Creek, at Hig- 
bee’s Beach, in Cape May county, October 6th, 1907. 
Menidia menidia notata (Mitchill). 
Silversides. 
Mr. W. J. Fox found a large number taken for bait on July 
4th, 1906, and on July roth, in Ludlam’s Bay. 
Mr. H. Walker Hand reports the “silver fish’ as found every- 
where along the sandy shores, and in Delaware Bay from Cape 
May Point to Green Creek. On May 5th, 1907, they were found 
swimming around the pockets of the pounds at Green Creek. An 
adult female was taken full of spawn, which was easily extruded 
by pressing the abdomen. Rare in New England Creek at Hig- 
bee’s Beach, in Cape May county, October 6th, 1907. 
