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usually two or three individuals are seen at one time. It appears in 

 June and July, till August, and reaches a length of from one and one- 

 half to two feet. 



Dr. R. J. Phillips says it is common in the bait-nets at Corson's 

 Inlet this year. It reaches a maximum size of about eighteen inches. 



Found by me in the Delaware about Burlington Island. 



Family HEMIRAMPHID-ffi. 



Hyporhamphus unifasciatus (Ranzani). 

 Half Beak. 



Dr. R. J. Phillips reports about a. dozen taken at Corson's Inlet in 

 a bait-net during the past summer. 



Family ATHERINID-ffi. 



Menidia menidia notata (Mitchill). 

 White Bait. Silversides. 



Color when fresh pale and very translucent sandy-gray or brown, 

 edge of each scale on back with dark margins formed of dusky dots. 

 A narrow silvery lateral streak from axilla to base of caudal, sharply 

 defined from back by a narrow streak of plumbeous on its upper edge 

 along entire course. This silvery streak of intense mercury-like ap- 

 pearance its whole length. Muzzle translucent brownish, and inclusive 

 of mandible and preorbital finely dotted with dusky. Iris bright 

 silvery- white. Upper surface of head translucent sandy-gray like 

 rest of body, and also finely dotted with dusky rather inconspicuously. 

 Cheeks, opercle and side of head with bright silvery, reflected pale 

 bluish and purplish in some lights. Inside of gill-opening silvery- 

 gray, finely dotted with dusky. Fins all pale translucent grayish- 

 white. Peritoneum showing through body-walls of abdomen bright 

 silvery. Length four and three-eighths inches. Also, five others 

 from Corson's Inlet on January 14th, 1908. At the above locality this 

 fish is seined as a food- fish, and is known as "white bait." The smaller 

 examples are shipped to the Philadelphia markets en masse, and I have 



