Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 795 



or laciniate, feeling very rough to the touch. Scales of head large. 

 Color in life, light greenish above, the lateral band broad, covering 2 

 half rows of scales, becoming narrow posteriorly ; sides and belly silvery; 

 tip of snout and of lower jaw yellow, soiled with blackish ; each scale 

 of back with 1 to 3 dark points, these forming about 5 conspicuous 

 streaks as seen from above ; caudal yellow, with dark punctulations, its 

 margin dusky; dorsal and pectorals somewhat dusky, lower fins white; 

 the anal with dark points at base. Length 4 inches. Coast of Gulf of 

 Mexico, Florida to Texas; very abundant in schools along the sandy 

 beaches, (vagrans, wandering.) 



Chirostoma vagrans, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 148, Pensacola, Florida. 



(Type, No. 22848. Coll. Stearns.) 

 Menidia vagrans, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 267; JORDAN & GILBERT, 



Synopsis, 407, 1883. 



1159. KIBTLANDIA MARTINICA (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Head 4* ; depth 5i ; dorsal V-I, 7 ; anal I, 21 ; scales 43. Eye large, as 

 long as snout, 3i in head. Teeth rather strong. Scales strongly lacin- 

 iate. Spinous dorsal opposite front of the anal. Soft dorsal and anal 

 naked (possibly scaly in life?). Pectorals long, extending past base of 

 ventrals. This species is very close to Kirtlandia laciniata (Swain) and 

 may prove to be the same. Martinique. Known only from the original 

 types. 



Atherina martinica, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poise,, x, 459, 1835, Martinique. (Coll. 



Plee.) 

 Menidia martinica, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 530; redescription of type. 



1160. KIRTLANDIA LACINIATA (Swain). 



(SlLVERFISH.) 



Head 4| ; depth 5| ; eye large, 3&, a little longer than snout ; dorsal 

 IV-I, 7 or 8; anal I, 19 to 21; scales 50-7, firm, their edges strongly cre- 

 nate, those on the back laciniate. Upper jaw the longer. Teeth short, 

 even, forming a narrow villiform band. First dorsal very feeble, over 

 the beginning of the anal, rather nearer tip of caudal than snout ; dis- 

 tance from first to second dorsal f length of head; pectorals reaching 

 ventrals, nearly as long as head ; ventrals falling far short of the base of 

 the first dorsal; second dorsal very short. Soft dorsal and anal scaly. 

 Clear translucent greenish above ; back with two or more rather irregu- 

 lar series of minute black dots, usually not more than one on each scale ; 

 snout and lower jaw dusky ; sides with a well-defined silvery band, $ 

 diameter of eye, covering third row of scales, not bounded above by a 

 dark line, but the entire band dusted with dark points ; a few minute 

 dots on base of anal ; caudal dusky. Virginia to South Carolina; rather 

 common, replacing northward the closely allied vagrans, with which it 

 may be found to intergrade. (laciniatus, gashed.) 



Menidia vagrans laciniata, SWAIN MS. in JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 908, 1883, Beaufort, 

 North Carolina; (Coll. Jordan & Gilbert); JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc.U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 

 689, (April 25, 1883). 



