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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU UK FISHERIES. 



Family ATHERINID^E. 



ATHERINA Lirmeeus. 



306. Atherina lacunosa Forster. New Caledonia; New Hebrides; Fiji (Gunther); Solomon Is. 



and New Hebrides (Seale); East Indies. 

 {Allirrina pinguis Lacepede.) 



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



308. Atherina endrachtensis Cuvier & Valenciennes. New Guinea; Australia. 



309. Atherina waigiensis Quoy & Gaimard. Waigiu. 

 Atherina cylindrica Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



310. Atherina uisila Jordan and Seale, new species. Uisila. 



Head 4.35 in length; depth 7; greatest width 7.40; eye 2.75 in head; snout 4; interorbital equal to 

 eye; dorsal vn-i, 10; anal r, 12; scales 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 grooves, 

 gillrakers equal in length to pupil, about 25 on lower limb; a single row of minute teeth in jaws, 

 patches of minute teeth on vomer and palatines; origin of dorsal nearer tip of snout than base of 

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



Fig. 23.— Atherina uisila Jordan & Seale, new species. Type. 



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

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

 spinous dorsal; pectoral reaching sixth scale of lateral line; origin of spinous dorsal over the sixteenth 

 scale of lateral line; opercle and preopercle entire. 



Color in life, olive; a lateral band with a brighter streak above; lower jaw blue; a black band 

 across pectoral, fins otherwise 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 equal 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 

 with 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 lacunosa, but seems to be different. 



Forty specimens from Apia. The type is no. 51726, U. S. National Museum, length 3.75 inches. 



311. Atherina insularum Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



Family MELANOT^NIID.E. 

 RHOMBATRACTUS Gill. a (Aristeus Castelnau; preoccupied. ) 



312. Rhombatraetus novEeguinese (Ramsay & Ogilby). Strickland River, New Guinea. 

 Nematocentris nova-guinece Ramsay & Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soe. N. S. Wales 1SS6, 13; Strickland River. 



313. Rhombatraetus rubrostriatus (Ramsay & Ogilby). Strickland River, New Guinea. 



314. Rhombatractus goldiei (Macleay). 



Aristeus goldiei Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 18S3, 2S9, Goldie River (New Guinea). 



a See Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1S96, 124. 



