32 ATHERINID^: SILVERSIUES 



Giinther's description of this species applies much better to Atherina 

 HEPSETUS. Some of his specimens apparently should have been referred 

 to Atherina presbyter. 



In Hepsetia boyeri the mandibular rami are slender and not elevated 

 posteriorly, and the premaxillary processes are rather blunt and scarcely 

 more than half as long as the eye. The specimen examined by us, from 

 the United States National Museum, is part of the Bonaparte collection. 



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A 27'. Hepsetia pinguis (Lacepede), 1803). 



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•^ Sjfj^^^Z-''^ Atherina pinguis Lacepede, Hist. Poiss., 5, 372, pi. 11, 1803; Gunthcr, Catalogue 

 (W^^,^ Fu/jc.y Brit. Mus., 3, 399, 1861; Day, Fishes of India, 334, 1876; Klunzinger, 



V) ^ Vcrh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 20, 833, 1870; Fischc dcs Rothcn M ceres, 130i, 

 y' i'*' ff.^'^ / ' ' 1884; Sauvage, Hist. Madag., Poiss., 409, 1891 ; Ogilby, Mem. Queensl. Mus., 

 A /yVi^^^^^'^''' 1, 38, pi. 12, fig. 1, 1912. 

 L vl*' Type-locality.— Mauritius. 



Atherina affinis Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 166, 1831. 



Type-locality. — Mauritius. 

 Atherina punctata Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 184, 1832. 



Type-locality. — Mauritius. 

 Atherina pectoralis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 10, 447, 1835. 



Type-locality. — Mauritius (now restricted). 

 Atherinichthys cephalotes Castelnau,'2 Proc. Zool. Soc. Victoria, 1, 137, 1872; 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 6, 43, 1881 (1882) (after Castelnau). 

 Type-locality. — Victoria. 

 ? Atherinichthys picta Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. I'ictoria, 1, 137, 1872; 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 6, 42, 1881 (1882) (after Castelnau). 

 Type-locality.— Capt. Sinnot's Dock, on the lower Yarra, Australia. 

 ? Atherinichthys modesta Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Victoria, 1, 137, 1872; 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 6, 42, 1881 (1882) (after Castelnau). 

 Type-locality. — Hobson's Bay, Australia (now restricted). 

 Atherina lacunosa Giinther, Journ. Mus. Godcffr., 13, 213, pi. 118. fig. E, 



1877; Waite, Rec. Canterb. Mus., 1, 15, 1907 (not of Forster). 

 Atherina forskali Jordan and Starks, Ann. Cam. Mus., 11, 439, 1917; Jordan and 



Hubbs, ibid., 462, pi. 46 (not of Ruppell). 

 Range. — Mauritius (Lacepede) and the eastern cqa^t of Africa (Gunther), north 

 to the Gulf of Suez (Cuvier and Valenciennes) and the eastern Mediter- 

 ranean, apparently having passed through the Suez Canal (Jordan and 

 Hubbs) ; eastward to India (Day), East Indies (Bleeker), and New Guinea 

 (Alleyne and Macleay) ; Australia (Ogilby) to New Caledonia, New 

 Hebrides, and Fiji Islands (Gunther); ?New Zealand (Hutton). 

 As Mr. Ogilby has suggested, it is probable that a detailed study of 

 this form throughout the wide range which has been ascribed to it, would 

 indicate that it is really divisible into several local species. 



The discovery by us of this species in the Mediterranean is the first 



12 Mr. Allan R. McCuUoch mentions in correspondence, that, judging from a 

 photograph of the type in the Paris Museum, Atherinichthys cephalotes is 

 merely A. pinguis Lacepede. Castelnau's picta and modesta may also belong here, 

 but the brevity and inaccuracy of the descriptions make the reference doubtful. 



