Civ. ATHE RIN &, 277 
Genus XXXVI. The upper jaw a little flat. 
Six branchioftegous rays. 
A filvery ftripe along the fide. 
ATHERINE. 
Pee Aa Pere pe REN RY oN Co, 
Epfetus? Belon. 209. Wil, Icth, 209. Rail fn pifes 
EWnros, Atherina. Rondel. 79°) 
215, 216. Boffuet Epig. 66. Atherina. 
: 6. 
67. Gefner pife. 71, 72. Mees : 
Pifciculus Anguella Venetiis dic- Atherina Hepfetus. A. pinna 
Arted. fynon. App. 
i radiis fere duodecim 
tus; forte Hepfetus Ronde- aS : 
tetii, vel Atherina ejuldem. » ee Gran uaa 
T is alfo to the fame gentleman that we are in- 
debted for our knowledge of this being a Briti/b 
fifth, it having been feen by him at the fame place 
with the former. 
Mr. Willoughby defcribes it as not exceeding three 
inches and a quarter in length: its form is flender : | 
the body covered with {cales, and entirely pellucid, 
except where the back bone and inteftines lie: the 
back is fpotted with black : the fides are filvery : 
when the fcales are taken off it appears that every 
four {pots form a rhombic figure. 
On the back are two fins; the firft confifts of 
Seven, the fecond of eleven rays; the pectoral of 
fourteen ; the ventral of fix; the anal of fourteen. 
The tail, according to Dottor Groxovis, bifur- 
gated *, 
® Mas. Icthyol. 1. No. 66, 
Genus, 
