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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  VOL. 
  08 
  

  

  Genus 
  HEPSETIA 
  Bonaparte 
  

  

  Plates 
  1,2; 
  Figxxbes 
  lb, 
  2a, 
  2c, 
  3a, 
  3g 
  

  

  Hepsetia 
  Bonaparte, 
  Iconografia 
  della 
  fauna 
  italica 
  . 
  . 
  ., 
  vol. 
  3, 
  Pesci, 
  fasc. 
  91, 
  

   1836 
  (genotype: 
  Atherina 
  hoyeri 
  Risso). 
  

  

  Among 
  the 
  five 
  species 
  recognized 
  by 
  Borsieri 
  I 
  refer 
  Atherina 
  

   hoyeri 
  Kisso, 
  4. 
  mochon 
  Cuvier 
  and 
  Valenciennes, 
  and 
  A. 
  rissoi 
  Cuvier 
  

   and 
  Valenciennes 
  to 
  this 
  genus. 
  

  

  The 
  generic 
  diagnosis 
  is 
  based 
  on 
  several 
  specimens 
  of 
  A. 
  hoyeri 
  in 
  

   the 
  National 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Figure 
  1. 
  — 
  Diagrammatic 
  sketches 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  cavities 
  of 
  certain 
  species 
  

   of 
  Atherinidae, 
  showing 
  the 
  posterior 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  air 
  bladder 
  and 
  the 
  bones 
  forming 
  the 
  

   haemal 
  arches: 
  A, 
  Stenatherina 
  iefnminckii 
  (Bleeker), 
  based 
  on 
  U.S.N.M. 
  No. 
  136763 
  

   from 
  the 
  Philippines; 
  B, 
  Hepsetia 
  rissoi 
  (Cuvier 
  and 
  Valenciennes), 
  based 
  on 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

   Nos. 
  10088 
  and 
  121859 
  from 
  Europe, 
  Bonaparte 
  collection; 
  C, 
  Atherina 
  kepsetus 
  Lin- 
  

   naeus, 
  based 
  on 
  U.S.N.M. 
  No. 
  10157 
  and 
  45503 
  from 
  the 
  Mediterranean, 
  Bonaparte 
  

   collection; 
  D, 
  Aiherinops 
  affinis 
  (Ayres), 
  based 
  on 
  U.S.N.M. 
  No. 
  125271 
  from 
  California; 
  

   E, 
  Atherinason 
  dannevigi 
  (McCulloch), 
  from 
  specimens 
  from 
  Port 
  Hacking, 
  New 
  South 
  

   Wales, 
  and 
  from 
  Kangaroo 
  Island, 
  southern 
  Australia, 
  sent 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Ian 
  S. 
  R. 
  Munro. 
  

  

  