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on lower limb of first gill-arch; teeth in upper jaw minute, in an imperfect band, with an irregular 
outer row, larger than the rest; teeth in lower jaw scarcely appreciable; vomer and palatines with 
patches of minute teeth; dorsal yt, 9; anal 1, 11; scales$8-6; origin of spinous dorsal over nineteenth 
scale of lateral line; base of soft dorsal 2.60 in head; base of anal 2; longest rays of soft dorsal and anal 
equal to eye; pectoral 1.66 in head; axillary scale three-fifths of length of pectoral; ventral 2.2; caudal 
forked, its middle rays half the length of the outer; 19 rows of scales in front of spinous dorsal; margins of 
scales entire; vent nearer base of ventrals than anal. 
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Fig. 6.+Atherina panatela, new species. Type. 
Color in spirits dark straw; scales of back and sides with dark punctulations, forming a more or less 
distinct dark edge, or a submarginal dark line; each scale in third row from mid-dorsal row with a 
roundish black spot behind its center and just in front of an abrupt convexity in the submarginal dark 
line; middle of side traversed by a blackish (silvery?) band of a width equal to that of a scale; belly 
paler straw; top of nose, interorbital edges, and opercles blackish. 
Known from a single specimen, the type, 4 inches long, no. 20203, Stanford University, from 
Calayan Island. 
This species is close to Atherina wisila Jordan & Seale, from Samoa, but the position of the vent 
is different and the scales are smaller. In A. wisila the vent is nearer the base of the anal than the 
insertion of the ventrals, while in the present species it is nearer the ventral base.@ 
(Panatela, Spanish, the name of a long and slender cigar. ) 
Family MUGILIDE. 
MUGIL Linnzus. 
49. Mugil cephalus Linneus. 
One example, 6 inches long, from Calayan. 
LIZA Jordan & Swain. 
50. Liza troscheli (Bleeker). 
A specimen each, 3.50 inches long, from Lubang and Aparri, and two specimens from Iloilo, 3 
inches. 
51. Liza oligolepis (Bleeker). 
One specimen, 4 inches long, from Iloilo. Scales 26; anal m1, 9; tip of maxillary hidden when 
mouth is closed. 
JESCHRICHTHYS Macleay. 
52. Mschrichthys goldiei Macleay. Banac. 
Zschrichthys goldiei Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8S. Wales, 1883, 5, fig. 1 and 2; Goldie River, New Guinea. 
One fine specimen 7 inches long and two between 4 and 5 inches from Mindoro Island. The 
genus Zschrichthys is easily recognized by the transverse groove at the back of the mandibles and the 
a While the extremes of a series of species of the genus Atherina differ widely in the position of the vent, we find such com- 
plete intergradation that it is impossible to make use of this feature as a generic distinction. In five species before us, all of which 
have the vent situated behind the tips of the ventrals, the position varies as follows: (1) Exactly halfway between base of anal 
and base of ventrals, tsurugz; (2) slightly nearer anal than ventral base, wisila; (3) slightly nearer ventral than anal base, panatcla; 
(4) much nearer anal than ventral base, being almost equidistant between tips of ventrals and base of anal, hepsetus and mochon. 
In five species which have the vent in front of tips of ventrals its different positions are as follows: (1) Barely in front of 
tips of ventrals, insularwm; (2) one pupil-length in front of ventral tips, bleekeri, pinguis, and (?) lacwnosa; (3) one eye-length in 
front of tips of ventrals, woodwardi. 
