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that they frequently possess characters of both forms combined in a 

 single individual. 



The Field Museum has material of M. menidia menidia from 

 South Carolina; intergrades between menidia and notata from Beau- 

 fort, North Carolina, from Ocean View, Virginia, and Ocean City, 

 New Jersey, and examples of M. menidia notata from off Swan River, 

 Long Island, from Noank, Connecticut, and from Woods Hole and 

 Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts. 



83a. Menidia menidia notata (Mitchill), 181 S.'^*- 

 (Plate IV, Fig. 14.) 

 Atherina notata Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. New York, 1, 446, 1815; De Kay, 

 New York Fauna, 4, 141, pi. 28, fig. 88, 1842. 

 Type-locality. — New York. 



Atherinopsis notatus Baird, Ann. Kept. Smiths. Inst., 338, 1854. 

 Atherinichthys notata Gunther, Catalogue Fishes Brit. Mus., 3, 406, 1861. 

 Argyrea notata Abbott, Geol. N. Jer., 816, 1868. 

 Menidia notata Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 16, 407. 1883; 



Jordan and Evermann, ibid., 47, pt. 1, 800, 18906. 

 Menidia menidia notata Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 47, pt. 3, 

 2840, 1898; Kendall, Rept. U. S. Fish Comm., 262-267, 1901 (1902), text 

 figure; Fowler, Rept. N. Jer. State Mus., 216, 1905 (1906), text figure; 

 289, 1906 (1907). 

 Type-locality. — New York. 

 Atherina viridescens Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. New York, 1, 447, 1815. 



Type-locality. — New York, New York. 

 Phoxargyrea dayi Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 40, 732, pi. 41, 1904, lower 

 figure. 

 Type-locality. — India (doubtless by error). 

 Range. — Coast of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to Cape May, inter- 

 grading southward with M. m. menidia. 



83b. Menidia menidia menidia (Linnaeus), 1766.-^*- 



We find no reason to doubt that Phoxargyrea is identical with 

 Menidia. As the entire Menidia group of genera (the Atherinopsin^) 

 is American, we are led to believe that the label with the type of Phox- 

 argyrea, reading "R. Coates, India," has been transferred accidentally 

 from some other specimen. The description of P. dayi, in fact, fits 

 young examples of M. m. notata in all important specific characters. 

 Atherina menidia Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 519, 1766; Lacepede, Hist Nat. 

 Poiss., 5, 371. 

 Atherinichthys menidia Gunther, Catalogue Fishes Brit. Mus., 3, 406, 1861. 

 Chirostoma menidium Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1, 383, 1878 



(in part). 

 Menidia menidia Jordan and Evermann, Bull U. S. Nat. Mus., 47, pt. 1, 800, 



1896. 

 Menidia menidia menidia Kendall, Rept. U. S. Fish Comm., 262-267, 1901 



(1902) text figure. 

 Type-locality. — Charleston, South Carolina. 



