800 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



above the band the scales are sparsely covered with fine dark punctula- 

 tions; none below the band, and but few upon it; top of head very 

 pale, almost transparent on the interorbital area, but in front and behind 

 thickly set with small dark spots ; snout also marked with spots ; lower 

 jaw with some spots in front, plain behind ; opercles plain ; fins all more 

 or less plainly marked with numerous small dark spots. Length 3i 

 inches. Gulf of California ; common, (sardina, sardine.) 



Atherina sardina, JENKINS & EVERMANN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, 137, Guaymas, Sonora. 

 (Type, No. 39633. Coll. Jenkins & Kvermann.) 



1166. MENIDIA NOTATA (Mitchill). 



(SlLVERSIDE.) 



Head 5 ; depth 6. D. IV-I, 8 ; A. I, 23-; scales 46-10. Eye large, 3i in 

 head, about as long as the snout. Scales with entire edges. Jaws equal. 

 First dorsal large, inserted in front of the anal, over the vent, about mid- 

 way between snout and base of caudal. Distance between dorsals 

 length of head. Pectoral scarcely shorter than head, reaching past base 

 of ventrals, which do not reach the vent or the front of the dorsal. Body 

 slenderer and more compressed than in Menidia menidia. Teeth * 

 in few series, some of them larger. Transparent green, with a 

 lateral silvery band half the width of the eye ; scales above with spots 

 along their edges, so that their outlines are clearly defined; chin speckled. 

 Length 5 inches. Atlantic Coast of United States, chiefly northward ; 

 south to Cape May; very abundant, (notatus, spotted, marked.) 



Atherina notala, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 1815, 446, New York ; JORDAN & 



GILBERT, Synopsis, 407, 1883. 



Atherina viridescens, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc., I, 1815, 447, New York. 

 Atherinichlhys menidia and notata, GUNTHER, Cat., in, 406, 1861. 



1167. MENIDIA MENIDIA (Linnaeus). 



Head 4f ; depth 5; eye 3&. D. IV-I, 9 ; A. I, 22 or 23 ; scales 39 or 40-8, 

 all entire. Cleft of mouth reaching to nearly opposite eye. Jaws equal. 

 Teeth not forming a close band, those of the outer series much enlarged, 

 a pair of small canines at symphysis. First dorsal inserted over the front 

 of the anal, nearer the base of the caudal than the snout. Soft dorsal 

 and anal scaleless. Pectoral as long as the head, reaching well past root 

 of ventrals, which reach the vent. Greenish yellow on back, very thickly 

 covered with fine dots, as are also the snout and lower jaw ; lateral streak 

 very narrow, bordered above with a conspicuous greenish-black line; the 

 stripe about as wide as pupil, covering the middle of the fourth series of 

 scales; caudal conspicuously light yellow; dorsal and pectoral fins less 

 so ; base of anal dusky. Length 3 inches. Cape Hatteras to Florida, 

 common on the South Atlantic Coast. (Menidia, an old name of some 

 small, silvery fish, from n^v, the moon.) 



* First superior pharyngeal without teeth; second with teeth; third and fourth coossifio'l. 

 with teeth. E. C, Starks. 



