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CYPMNODONTID^. 



FUNDULUS BERMUDA, Gunther. 

 Fundulus BermudoB, Gunther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 1874. 



Very common in the brackish water of the swamps and in ditche?. 

 Attains the length of four inches. 



SYNODONTIDJE. 



SYNODUS LACERTA, {Valenciennes) Goods. 

 Snake-fish. 



Salmo Saurus, LiNNfi, Syst. Nat. 2 ed. 11,511, 1766; Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1, 1376. 

 Saurus lacerta, Cuv «& Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. xxii, 463, 1849 (not Eisso). 

 Saurus griseus, Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii, 188, 1841. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 

 V, 395. 



A specimen, seventeen inches long, was taken oif the " ducking-stool '' 

 in March, by a line fisherman. Its occurrence in this part of the Atlantic 

 is very novel, but it agrees closely with a specimen of Saurus griseus 

 sent to the United States National Museum by Dr. Glinther. Its color 

 was dusky-gray above, yellow below. Its formulae are as follows : — 



Branchiostegals, 16-17 (on opposite sides). D. 12; A. 12. Lateral 



line, 60. Transverse line, -^. 



ELOPIDJ]. 



MEGALOPS THRISSOIDES, {Bloch) GiintJier. 

 Takpum. 



Camaripuciiagu, Marcgrave, Hist. &c. Brasil, 1648, 179. 



Chqyea cyprinoides, Bloch, Ichth., xii, 1797, 24, tab. cccciii. 



Clupea tlirissoides, Schneider, Bloch, Syst. Ichth. 1801^ 424. 



Megalops thrissoides, Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. vii, 1868, 472.— Gill, in Baird's 



Eep. on Sea Fisheries of Southern New England, 1873, 810. 

 Clupea apalike, Hauy, Encyclopedia M^thodique.— LacepJide, Hist. Nat. Poiss. v, 1803, 



425, 461. 

 Clupea gigantea, Shaw, Gen. Zool. v, 1803, 173. 

 Megalops atlanticus, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. six, 1846, 398.— Muller & Tro- 



SCHEL, Schomhurgk's Hist. Barbados, 1848, 676.— Poey, Rep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 



1868, 423. 



Estremely rare; a single skin about six feet long was shown me 

 in the collection of John T. Bartram, of Saint George's. The species 



