74 ATHEBIN1D-E. 



spines ; second dorsal and anal fins opposite each other. Ventral 

 fins inserted at a considerable distance behind the base of the pectorals. 

 Vertebra? 43 to 56. 



Seas of nearly the whole world, except the Arctic and Antarctic 

 Regions. Four species are on record from fresh waters in Africa : — 



I. First dorsal widely separated from second. 

 D. VI- VIII, I 11-] 3 ; A. I 12-13 ; 43-49 scales 



in longitudinal series 1. A. mochon, C. & V., p. 74. 



D. VI, I 9 ; A. I 1G ; 40 scales in longitudinal [p. 70. 



series 2. A. gabonensis, H. W. Fowl., 



II. First dorsal narrowly separated from second. 

 D. VII, I 15 ; A. I 16 ; 38 scales in longitudinal 



series 3. A. sikorce, Sauv., p. 7G. 



D. VI, I 10-12 ; A. I 14-16 ; 38-42 scales in [p. 76. 



longitudinal series 4. A. alaotrensis, Pellegr., 



1. ATHERINA MOCHON. 



Atherina hepsetus, var., Delaroche, Ann. Mus. xiii. 1809, p. 358. 



Atlierina mochon, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. x. p. 434, pi. ccciv. fig. 1 (1835) ; 



Guichen. Explor. Alg., Poiss. p. 67 (1850) ; Giinth. Cat, Fish. iii. p. 396 



(1861) ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lvii. i. 1868, p. 678 ; Canestr. Faun. 



d'ltal., Pesci, p. 116 (1874) ; Moreau, Poiss. France, iii. p. 209 (1881) ; 



Marion, Ann. Mus. Marseille, Zool. iv. 1891, p. 94; Lonnb. Bih. Svensk. 



Vet.-Ak. Handl. xxvi. iv. 1900, no. 8, p. 8 ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 423, fig. 



(1907). 

 Atlierina risso, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 435 ; Playf . & Letourn. Ann. & Mag. N. H. 



(4) viii. 1871, p. 387; Moreau, t. c. p. 210; Borsieri, Zool. Anz. 1902, 



p. 599, and Contr. Con. Sp. Eur. Atherina, p. 47, pi. x. (1904). 

 Atlierina sarda, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 435. 

 Atherina lacustris, Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital., Pesci, pi. — , fig. 3 (1836) ; Martens, 



Arch. f. Naturg. xxiii. 1857, p. 167, pi. ix. figs. 1 & 2 ; Giinth. t. c. p. 394 ; 



Canestr. op. cit. p. 9 ; Roule, C. R. Ac. Sci. cxxxvi. 1903, p. 824 ; H. W. 



Fowler, Proc. Ac. Philad. Iv. 1904, p. 727. 

 Atlierina caspia, Eichw. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1838, p. 136, and Faun. Casp.- 



Cauc. p. 163, pi. xxxiii. figs. 1 & 2 (1841). 

 Atlierina pontica, Eichw. 11. cc. pp. 137, 164, pi. xxxiii. figs. 3 & 4 ; Kessl. Trud. 



St. Petersb. Obshch. Estest. v. 1374, p. 296. 

 Atherina boieri (non Risso), Deperet, Bull. Soc. H. N. Toulouse, xvii. 1883, p. 82. 

 Atherina hyalosoma (Cocco), Facciola, Nat. Sicil. iv. 1885, p. 239. 

 Atlierina riqueti, Roule, Zool. Anz. 1902, p. 262, fig., C. R, Ac. Sci. cxxxvi. 1903. 



p. 824, and cxxxvii. 1903, p. 1276. 

 Atlierina sardinella, H. TV Fowler, t, c. p. 729, pi. xli. 



