Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 791 



body ; ventrals half length of head ; bases of vertical fins concealed in a 

 sheath of scales. Color, translucent olive green, the snout and mandible 

 dusky ; back with a median series of black specks, one on each scale ; a 

 similar series on each side the median row; no dark specks on sides; 

 lateral silvery band broad, occupying the greater part of the third row 

 of scales, its width half diameter of orbit ; a dusky area behind vent ; 

 a series of black specks along base of anal, and thence along caudal 

 peduncle to tail. Gulf of Mexico, at Key West and Cozumel, with 

 Jenkinsia stoUfera; not rare, but less abundant than Atherina laticeps. 

 (apaibc, slender.) 



Atherina arsea, JORDAN & GILBEKT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 27, Key West. (Type, No. 

 34,967. Coll. Jordan.) 



1151. ATHERINA HARRINGTONENSIS, Goode. 



Head 5f ; depth 8* ; eye 3. D. VII-I, 10 ; A. 1, 11 ; scales 45-6 ; snout 

 somewhat less than postorbital portion of Lead, about equal to maxillary, 

 slightly greater than interorbital width, or 2 in greatest width of head; 

 mandible about equal to postorbital portion of head ; cleft of mouth 

 oblique, maxillary extending to orbit ; lower jaw slightly the longer ; 

 mouth very portractile ; teeth small, inconspicuous. Spinous dorsal 

 inserted behind extremity of ventrals, at a distance from the snout 

 greater than half length of body ; anal directly beneath dorsal, their 

 lengths of base being equal ; anal higher than dorsal ; length of ventral 

 that of pectoral, which is more than f that of head. Greenish white, 

 a narrow silvery band extending from gill opening to tail, covering the 

 third row (from above) of scales and the edges of the contiguous rows 

 above and below. (Goode.) Bermudas. (Named for Harrington Sound 

 in the Bermudas.) 



Atherina harringtonensis, GOODE, Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d series, xiv, No. 82, 1877, 297, 

 Bermuda Islands. 



1152. ATHERINA CAROLINA, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Head 4 in total length with caudal ; depth 6f ; eye large, 2 in head. 

 D. VIII-I, 12 ; A. I, 15 ; scales 52, nearly or quite entire. Spinous dorsal 

 wholly in advance of vent ; ventral fins reaching past front of vent, and 

 dorsal nearly to it. Very similar to A. hepsetus, but with the head 

 smaller and the body slenderer. Length 4 inches. Coast of South Caro- 

 lina ; known only from the original type, from which the above descrip- 

 tion is taken; possibly a specimen of the European species Atherina 

 boyeri, wrongly attributed to the coast of South Carolina. It is a true 

 Atherina. 

 Atherina Carolina, CUVIEE & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., x, 445, 1835, South Carolina. 



1153. ATHERINA MICROPS, Poey. 



Head 5 with caudal; eye 4 in head. Dorsal V-I, 15; anal 1, 19. Mouth 

 small and very protractile. First dorsal a little in front of middle of 

 body ; the second as well as the anal is a third longer than in laticeps. 



