38 atherinid/e: silversides 



but the descriptions contain little that is tangible. Some of these, of 



course, may have been based upon the species under discussion. 



The preliminary diagnosis of caspi.\ and pontica, apparently not 



being readily accessible, we reprint below. 



"1. A. PRESBYTER Cuv., A. HEPSETUS L., rostfo brcviore pinna dorsi priore 8, secunda 

 12, anali 15-16 radiis. Hab. in oceano, caspio mari et nigro ; 

 var. CASPiA, e sinu balchanensi, 4 poll. 8 lin. longa, dorso crassissimo, 

 piano, fronte recta, ore supero, ita ut suprema pars extrema maxillae utriusque 

 cum supremo margine maximi oculi tumidi in una linca sita sit ; fascia 

 argentea omnino recta ; 



var. PONTICA prope Odessam parum minor, dorso abdominesque minus 

 crassis, acutioribus, fronte valde declivi, ita ut oris extrema pars acuminata 

 cum inferiore margine pupillse in eadem linea adpareat ; pinna dorsi prior 

 plurimum 8, secunda 12-13, at analis 14-15 radiis instructa ; apud ill. Pal- 

 LAsiuM (zoogr. ross. p. 225), numerantur, nescioquo jure, in utraque pinna 

 dorsi 9 radii, et 12 in anali." 



44. Atherina bonapartii Boulenger, 1907.-^'- 



Atherina mochon Borsieri, Ann. Agricolt., 39, pi. 9, 1902 (1904) (and of Italian 

 authors in general, but not of Delaroche and Cuvier and Valenciennes, 

 iidej Boulenger). 



Atherina bonapartii Boulenger, Zool. Egypt, 3 (Fishes Nile), 426, 1907. 

 Type-locality. — Shores of Italy (by inference). 



Range. — Shores of Italy. 



45. Atherina Carolina Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1835. 



Atherina Carolina Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Pass., 10, 445, 1835; Jordan 

 and Evermann, Bull.JJ. S. Nat. Mtis., 47, pt. 1, 791, 1896. 

 Type-locality. — Carolina (probably an error). 

 Ra7ige. — Unknown. '; , /^ ^ 



46. Atherina harringtonensis (^ode, \S77.^^- 

 There are two American forms of true Atherina. As they differ 

 only in average characters, we regard them as subspecies. Both have 

 the mandibular rami elevated posteriorly ; the premaxillary spines slender 

 and a little more than half as long as the eye; the snout not very short 

 and blunt ; the interorbital not very broad ; the eye not very large ; the 

 head not very large ; the body rather slender and not strongly com- 

 pressed. The anus is about twice as distant from the anal fin as from 

 the insertion of the short ventrals ; these fins extending little beyond 

 the anus, i . . ■ ■ ' 



46a." _Atherina harringtonensis harringtonensis Goode, 1877.-^'' 



Atherina harringtonensis Goode, Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts (3), 14, 297, 1877; 

 Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 47, pt. 1, 791, 1896; Bean, 

 Publ. Field Mus. {Zool.), 7, 40. 1906. 

 Type-locality. — Harrington Sound ; Bermudas. 

 Range. — "All of the lagoons and protected bays of the Bermudas" (Goode). 



This island variety differs from the form of the mainland and the 

 West Indies only in average characters : the scales are usually more 



