;!7r> NEW YORK STATE MUSETJM 



fishes inliabitinji- sjindy shores in cold regions, living in large 

 schools. 1 Ml lying themselves in the sand near the tide mark. 

 Valned as bait and useful as food for salmon and other larger 



fishes. 



180 Ammodytes americanus De Kay 



t>and Lance J Sand Eel 



Ammodytes umcrinnnis De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 317, pi. 52. fig. 167, 

 1842. Queens County, New York, and Stratford, Conn.; Stoker. Hist. 

 Fish. Mass. 216, pi. XXXIII, fig. 2, 1867: Goode & Beax, Bull. Essex 

 Inst. XI, 20. 1879; .Tordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat.Mus. 414, 

 1883; JoRDAX & EvERMANN. Bull. 47. U. S. Nat. Mus. 833, 1896. pi. 

 CXX'TX, (ig. :!.">1, inOO; Beax, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 359, 1897. 



Aunnodi/tcs ritlatKS De Kay, N. Y. Fauna. Fislves, 318, pi. <30, fig. 197, 1842, 

 New York, apparently based upon a mutilated specimen, fide Jordan 



\- EVERMANX. 



Artji/rohirnia villato .Torda.x vV Gilbert. Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 415, 1883. 



Body long, slender, snbterete, its greatest depth one tenth to 

 one Iwclfih of total length without caudal, its width two fifths 

 of Iriigtli of head; head moderately long, with acutely pointed 

 snout, length (f lu-ad one fifth of total without candai; snout 

 ncnrly one third as long as the head; eye small, one sixth as long 

 us the h(M<l. and equal to width of interorbital space; lower jaw 

 somewlKii projecting, the mandible nearly one half as long as 

 I he Ii'nk!. I Ik- maxilla, reaching liack to front of orbit; dorsal 

 origin in ;iii\;ince of lij) of pectoral; length of pectoral about 

 eiic linir ilie length of head; length of anal base nearly one third 

 if tniiil witliitMi caudal; dorsal and anal rays about equal in 

 len.mli and not iiiucli longer than the eye; intermaxillary pro- 

 iiaciile; \(iMiei- noi aiiiied with a bicuspid toothlike prominence, 

 l>. ."..-. lo (i:;: .\. L'T lo :!1. Lateral folds 127 to 141. 



The speriiiiens ex.-iiiiined are from 4;^ to 7 inches long, from 

 NaMimkei. Wends Molt- aiul ISass Rocks, Mass. 



<"nluis :is i.':i\eu ly I r Siorec: ((' a dirty greenish brown on 

 'li'' '"ack, liic sides :iihI ;i Ixlouieii sihcry. the to]) of the head 

 ilesli rolured. ilii- ] ir< '( 1 1 lerc les sihd'y, operculum cupreous and 

 sil\-ei\ . pujiils lihick, ii'is sihcry. 



The sand hincc dcnns on sandy slioics fi-oiu Newfoundland to 

 *"-iI'"' lluiiei;is. Ill ,,ii;iiii liailiors of Cape Cod and Marthas 

 ^' i'i'.\;ii<l ii otieii scIkh.Is in myi-iads, so that the entire bottom 



