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I'^ig. 121. Aihev'uia dannevigi. 



HEPSETIA Bonaparte, 1837 (boyeri). 

 HEPSETIA PINGUIS Lacep^de (Hnrdyhead). 



Aihcrina pingiiis Laeep., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v. 1803, p. 871, pi. xi, fig. 1; Ogil., 



Mem. Qld. Mus., i, l!)12, p. 88, pi. xii, fig. 1. 

 Afherinichthys modcsta, A. pictd and A. ccphaJotes C'a.st., P.Z.S., \'ict., i, 1872, 



p. 136, 137. 

 Aihfriiui lacn)ios<( (xiintli., -louni. Miis. Godeft'., xiii, 1877, p. 213, pi. exviii, fig. E 



(not Forst.). 





"ii^. 122. Hcpsetia pinguis. 



Family MELANOTAENIIDAE. 



MELANOTAENIA Gill, 1862 (nigrans). 



MELANOTAENIA NIGRANS Richardson (Pink ear). 



Atherina nigra n.^ Rich., A.M.N.H., xi, 1843, p. 180. 

 Mekmotaenia nigrans Gill, Proe. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phil., 1862, p. 280. 

 Nematocentris splendida Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866, p. 516. 

 Straho nigrofasciatus Kner & Steind., Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, liv, 1866, p. 873, 



395, pi. iii, fig. 10. 

 Zantecla pusilla Cast., P.Z.S., Vict., ii, 1873, p. 88. 

 Aida inornafa Cast., Res. Fish. Anst., 1875, p. 10. 



