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Soft dorsal and anal scaly. Color translucent pale sandy-brown, 
each scale of back peppered with dusky, many dots on each scale. 
Snout and mandible dusky. A broad bright silvery band % 
width of orbit on side covering third row of scales and bounded 
above by a narrow leaden line in preserved examples, though not 
dusted with dark points. Caudal and dorsal dusky, other fins 
paler. Iris and side of head silvery. Length 4% inches. Ocean 
City. : 
Color in life of the above translucent pale sandy-brown gener- 
ally, and the pattern very similar to Menidia menidia notata. 
Each scale on back with small dusky points or dots, much darker 
than those of Menidia menidia notata. A rather broad lateral 
silvery band, much wider than pupil and but little less than width 
of orbit, extending from axil of pectoral to base of caudal. 
Upper margin of silvery lateral band bordered narrowly with 
slaty-green so that line of demarcation is sharp. Lateral band 
also of about more or less even width entire length of its course. 
Top of head and snout brownish with greenish reflections, and 
dotted a little like scales on back. Lower jaw also sprinkled 
with a few pale dots. Head and iris otherwise burnished with 
bright silver. Inside of gill-opening punctuated with brownish 
and dusky. Peritoneum showing through bright silvery. Fins 
all more or less dull or pale transparent brown, lower ones 
scarcely paler. 
This beautiful little fish was found fairly abundant on the bar 
at Ocean City in company with Menidia menidia notata, Trachi- 
notus carolinus, Anchovia mitchilli and Menticirrhus saxatilts. 
It was taken mostly however with Menidia menidia notata 
which it greatly resembles, there being little difference in the 
colors of the living animals. Menidia menidia notata however 
may easily be distinguished by the paler back, not so peppery in 
appearance, and the much narrower lateral silvery streak. Kurt- 
landia also appeared to fall a little small in size as compared with 
Menidia, as most all of my examples taken were much smaller. 
The Trachinotus is the longest too die of any of the above men- 
tioned fishes when taken from the water. 
Menidia laciniata Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, “1889, p. 146. 
