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Atherina stipes Miiller and Troschel, in Schomburgk, Hist. Barbadoes, 671, 1848; 

 Giinther, Catalogue Fishes Brit. Mus., 3, 400. 1861 ; Jordan and Evermann, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 47, pt. 1, 790, 1896; pt. 4, pi. 122, fig. 332, 1900. 

 Type-locality. — Barbadoes. 

 Atherina laticeps Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 2, 790, 1861 ; Jordan and Ever- 

 man, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 47, pt. 1, 790, 1896. 

 Type-locality. — Havana, Cuba. "").- 



Atherina veliana Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1, 342, 1879. 



Type-locality. — Clear Water Harbor, Florida. 

 Range. — Shores of the western Atlantic from Florida to Panama ; West Indies. 



We have examined large series of Hepsetia from the shores of the 

 western Atlantic, but fail to distinguish more than one species. The 

 name t.eniata may be applicable to this species, but the original descrip- 

 tion and figure of T.iiNiAXA indicate a fish with smaller head and more 

 anal rays. Our material comes from Florida ( Key West ; Barnes Sound ; 

 Dry Tortugas ) ; Cuba, Porto Rico ; Bahamas ; Jamaica ; British Honduras, 

 and Panama. 



Hepsetia stipe.s corresponds in all respects to our diagnosis of the 

 genus. ; ' . ' .-/ f , ,1 



40. Hepsetia evermanni (Eigenmann), 1903.-^*- 



(Plate II, Fig. 5) 



Atherina evermanni Eigenmann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 228, fig. 9, 1902 (1903). 



Type-locality. — San Cristobal, Cuba. 

 Range. — Fresh waters of Cuba. 



This species has larger scales than any other form of the genus, 

 and the anal fin is unusually large, as also in H. insularum. 



XVI. ATHERINA Linnaeus, 1758. 



Atherina (Artedi) Linnjeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 315, 1758; Giinther, Catalogue Fishes 

 Brit. Mus., 3, 392, 1861 (in part) ; Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.. 

 16, 404, 1883 (in part) ; Jordan and Evermann, ibid., 47, pt. 1, 789, 1896 (in 

 part); Borsieri, Ann. Agricolt., 16, 1902 (1904) (in part); Fowler, Froc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 40, 727, 1904 (in part). 

 Haplotype. — Atherina hepsetus Linnsus. 

 T^eniomembras Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 23, 41, 1898; McCulIoch, 

 Zool. Res. Fish. Exp. Endeavour, pt. 1, 32, 1911. 

 Orthotype. — Atherina microstoma Giinther. 

 Range. — In the Atlantic Ocean from the Bermudas and Florida to Panama, and 

 from the Scandinavian Peninsula and England to the Madeira and Canary 

 Islands ; Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas ; South Africa ; Madagascar ; 

 Indian Ocean ; East Indies, and north to central Japan, east through the 

 Pacific Islands, and southeast to eastern Australia and Tasmania. 

 Even in the restricted sense in which we adopt it, the genus 

 Atherina comprises a large number of species which differ consider- 

 ably from one another. The variations of chief significance involve the 

 position of the first dorsal, the position of the anus in reference to anal 

 and ventral fins, the size of the scales, the size of the mouth, the length 



