116 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



ATHERINIDAB. 

 Menidia notata (Mitchill). 



Distribution. — Coast of United States southward to the Carolinas. 



D. 6 + 9 ; A. 1, 23. 



There is one specimen of this species in the collection of the M. C. Z. 

 (No. 18,246) ; so far as I can ascertain no other specimen has ever been 

 taken. 



M. menidia (Linne). Blue Fry. 



Distribution. — Atlantic coast of United States, the Carolinas southward. 

 D. 4 + 9; A. 1+22. 



This species Tvas exceedingly common in Flatts Inlet. Thousands were 

 seined daily by the natives for bait. 



MUGILIDAE. 



Mugil brasiliensis Agassi z. Mullet. 



J/. //;,/ Cuv. .^ Val. Goode, '76% p. 63. 



Distribution. — West Indies ; Atlantic coast of South America. 

 D. 5 + 8; A. 3 + 8. 



Specimens were frequently taken from the seine in Flatts Inlet; the species 

 is generally common. 



M. curema Cuv. & Val. 



Distribution. — Both coasts of the Americas. 



D. .5 + 5 ; A. 3 + 9. 



I obtained a large number of specimens of this species in March and April, 

 1903, at Hungry Bay. During the summer, however, only one specimen was 

 taken ; this was hova. Sargassum floating ofif Ireland Island. The sjjecies had 

 not been taken before at Bermuda. 



SPHYRAENIDAE. 



Sphyraena sphyraena (Lixne.) 



S. spet (Haiiy) Goode, '76% p. 61. 

 Jordan & Evermann, '96-00, vol. 1 (1896), p. 826. 



Distribution. — Southern coast of Europe to Bermuda. 



D. 6 + 9 ; A. 1 + 9. 



This European species is not uncommon about Bermuda. I have a single 

 specimen about 10 inches long taken in the seine near Gibbet Island and 

 another, considerably smaller, taken by the members of the Biological Station 

 during the summer of 1904. 



