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Genus Menipra Bonaparte. 
The Silversides. 
Key to the species. 
a. Anal radii 15 to 17, rarely 19; scales about 38 to 4I. BERYLLINA CEREA 
aa. Anal radii 20 to 27; scales 39 to 50. MENIDIA NOTATA 
Menidia beryllina cerea Kendall. 
Head 4; depth 5%; D. V—-m, 7, 1; A. 11, 13; scales 36 in lat- 
eral series to base of caudal with about 2 more on latter; 9 scales 
obliquely between origins of spinous dorsal and anal; 17 scales 
before dorsal; snout 334 in head; eye 234; interorbital space 3; 
pectoral 1% ; ventral 17% ; lower caudal lobe 1; base of anal 11/,,; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 27%. Body elongate, compressed, 
and rather fusiform. Head moderate, well compressed, and 
lower profile much more steep than upper. Snout broadly de- 
pressed, rounded when viewed above. Eye large, circular. Man- 
dible protruding a little. Profile of mandible slightly convex. 
Teeth in narrow villiform bands in jaws. Maxillary not reach- 
ing eye. Interorbital space flattened and a little broad. Gill- 
rakers slender, rather long and numerous. Scales entire. Lateral 
line a series of small pores, one on each scale below lateral stripe. 
Spinous dorsal inserted midway between tip of snout and base 
of caudal. Rayed dorsal inserted about over first third of base 
of anal, nearer base of caudal than origin of pectoral. Caudal 
forked. Tip of pectoral extending beyond origin of ventral, 
which is inserted nearer origin of spinous dorsal than that of 
pectoral. Color translucent sandy-gray. A narrow silvery lateral 
streak less in width than pupil of eye. Edges of scales on back 
dusted brown. Fins pale, dorsal and caudal scarcely darker. 
Length 134 inches. Anglesea. 
Known to me from our coast by the single example described 
above which was taken by Messrs W. J. Fox and P. Laurent, 
October 3d, 1897. 
