one transverse plates, with their i'rey margins direcled haek- 

 wards. The body of a iVesli s})ecinien is (hirk above, with 

 belly and lowei- jaw wliite; JVom the ti}) of the latter runs a 

 stripe aloni;' tlie middle to the tail, interrupted only at the 

 eye and pectoral fin: above this is a. narrov/ band of clouded 

 yellow, and below a sulphur-colored one. Dorsal, anal and 

 ventral Iduish, the ibrnicr wit'i the tips of the first six uv 

 seven rays white; caudal ])luisli, with the upper and lower 

 mar<j,'ins white. 



l,^in-rays;— 1). ;57: T. IS; V. 1 . . V A. :;:;: ('. 18. 



/'.-'. iui /irfufonh's, Gi/L 



E. liolhrookil, Guentiier, II p. ;!S2. 



— (ilhir<uii/(i , DcKay, New \'(irk l'\inna. b'ishes. p. 1)07. 



-^^liiieo/d, llolhr. Iciith. S. ('ar. p. 102, [>i. M, i\'j:. !. 

 IiD/ltro<>/:ii\ (Tuenthcr. Ann. i^i: ^laii'. Nat. Hist. May, 

 ISC.O, p. 400. 



Ilather uncommon in Maryland waters, but is sometimes 

 met with in the southern ])art of (Hiesapeake I'ay. 



A('AI). (^0!;l,. 



XXXVIII.— ATTIERTNTDyE. 

 CHIROSTOMA, 8\v. 



C. X0T.\T.\. 



The Dotted Silverside, or Oiuiij^eon. 



Body clon,L!,ated, cylindrical, compi'csscd. Head of mode- 

 rate size, somewliat llattened al)Ove;, and (ine-fifth of the total 

 len<i,'th. Scales and eyes large: _iaws very ])rotractile. A 

 broad silvery band iVoni the gill covers to the tail. ( /olor 

 above this stripe sea-gi'een: a <larlc, rounded sjiot at the l)ase 

 of the anal ray. 



Fin-rays:— 1). 11. 1. ID; P. lo: V. i. o; A. 1. 25* 0. 11). 



Atlterhia iinfdta, Mitch. Lit. t^: Phil. Trans. New York,! 

 p. 44<j, pi. 4 iig. (i; DeKay, New York Fauna, h'ish, p. 141, 

 ]d, 28, fig, 88: (luenther, III p. 40(b 



