216 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OK FISHERIES. 



ramily ATHI-RINID.J:. 

 ATHERINA Linnasns. 



306. Atherina lacunosa Foister. New Caledonia; Xew lkl)ri<les; Fiji ((Hintlier); Solomon I:^. 



anil Xew Hebrides (Seale); East Indies. 



I Mhi ri-nn pln'juis LilcupOde.) 



307. Atherina forskali Rtippell. New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



308. Atherina endrachtensis Cuvier & ValeniieiHies. New Guinea; Au.stralia. 



309. Atherina waigiensis Quoy & Gaimard. Waigiu. 

 Alhi rinn cijliiidrica Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



310. Atherina uisila Jordan and Scale, new species. Visila. 



Head 4.35 in length; depth 7; greate.st width 7.40; eye 2.7.5 in head; snout 4; interorbital equal i 

 eye; dorsal vn-i, 10; anal i, 12; scale.s 2-42-3; maxillary extending to below anterior margin of eye. 



Body .somewhat conical; head as wide as deep; interorbital space flat with two narrow groove- 

 gillrakers equal in length to pupil, abcSut 25 on lower limb; a single row of minute teeth in jaw>. 

 patches of minute teeth on vomer and palatines; origin of dorsal nearer tip of snout than ba.'^e ": 

 caudal, its longest spine equal to eye; origin of soft dorsal slightly posterior to origin of anal; baM' 



.3 



of soft dorsal 2.50 in head; base of anal 1.75 in head; the longest rays of soft dorsal and anal eipial to 

 eye; pectoral 1.50 in head; ventral 2; caudal 1.20, deeply emarginate; 18 rows of scales in front of 

 spinous dorsal; pectoral reacliin^ :^ixth scale of lateral line; origin of spinous dorsal over the sixteenth 

 scale of lateral line; operclc and |iii'(i|u-rilc entire. 



Color in life, olive; a latcial l>aiid with a brighter streak above; lower jaw blue; a black ban<l 

 across pectoral, fins otherwii-e plain. Color in spirits, below the lateral stripe white with slight wash 

 of pale green; margin of scales with or without fine black dots; a wide stripe of bright silver from 

 opercle to base of caudal, at its widest point this stripe eijUal in width to the pupil; scales of lateral 

 line in some specimens with darker centers, which give the appearance of a slightly darker line in the 

 upper third of the silvery line; above the stripe the scales have darker margins and are punctulate 

 witii minute blue dots, the ground color being pale green; pectoral with a slight wash of dusky, other 

 fins white; opercle silvery. 



This species is near Atherina Uinmom, but seems to be different. 



Forty specimens from Apia. The type is no. 5172(3, U. .^. National Museum, length 3.75 inches. 



311. Atherina insularum .Jordan A Everniann. Hawaii. 



Family MELA.XOT.JiMlD.i;. 

 KHOMBATRACTUS Gill," (.In'.steK.s Castelnau; preoccupied.) 



312. Rliombatractus novseguiueae ( Kamsay & Ogilby). Strickland Kiver, New Guinea. 



y,,iiati„-nil,-is minr-indaai: lUllnsay & Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales 1886. 13, Strickland River. 



313. Bhombatractus rubrostriatus (Ramsay & Ogilby). Strickland Kiver, New Guinea, 



314. Bhombatractus goldiei (Macleay). 



Aristcm goldiei Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1S83, 269, Goldie River (New Guinoai. 



aSee Ogilby, Proc. Linu. Soc. K. a. W. 1S96, 124. 



