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Menidia menidia notata (Mitchill). 
Silverside. Silversides. Sand Smelt. 
Head 4%; depth’ 6143 DaAV=-1)1;j,9o% Av, 1, 22; 1 sscales 
46 in lateral series from gill-opening above to base of caudal and 
4 more on latter; 10 scales between origin of spinous dorsal and 
that of anal; 28 scales before spinous dorsal; snout 3% in head; 
eye 314; maxillary 344; mandible 27%; interorbital space 334; 
second dorsal spine 234; first branched dorsal ray 1°/,,; first 
branched anal ray 19/,); upper caudal lobe nearly 1; least depth 
of caudal peduncle 234; pectoral 1%; ventral 2. Body long, 
slender, compressed. Caudal peduncle compressed. Head com- 
pressed, mandible forming oblique profile. Snout flattened 
above, a trifle broader than long. Eye large, rounded, a little 


Hy ~~ hy 
Silverside. Menidia menidia notata (Mitchill). 
longer than deep. Mouth horizontal, wide, and jaws equal. 
Teeth rather large, conic, those in upper inner series a little en- 
larged. Maxillary nearly vertical, about 74 of space to orbit. 
Nostrils superior, well separated, posterior close in front of eye 
above. Interorbital space broad and flattened. Gill-rakers 6 + 
15, slender, lanceolate, and longest about equal to diameter of 
pupil. Scales large, cycloid, more or less of uniform size or 
becoming reduced and crowded on base of caudal. Lateral 
line of simple tubes, rather obscure. Spinous dorsal inserted 
nearer base of caudal than tip of snout, first 2 spines longest, and 
fin reaching a trifle over half of space to rayed dorsal. Rayed 
dorsal inserted nearer tip of pectoral than base of caudal, and 
