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Genus Mknidia Bonaparte. 

 The Silversides. 

 Key to the species. 



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a. Anal radii 15 to 17, rarely 19; scales about 38 to 41. beryllina cerea 

 aa. Anal radii 20 to 27; scales 39 to 50, menidia notata 



^ Menidia beryllina cerea Kendall. 



Head 4; depth 5^ ; D. V-ii, 7, i ; A. 11, 13; scaies 36 in lat- 

 eral series to base of caudal with about 2 more on latter ; 9 scales 

 obliquely between origins of spinous dorsal and anal; 17 scales 

 befoTe dorsal; snout 3^4 in head; eye 2^; interorbital space 3; 

 pectoral 1% ; ventral ij4> ', lower caudal lobe i ; base of anal 1^/10 ; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2%. Body elongate, compressed, 

 and rather fusiform. Head moderate, well compressed, and 

 lower profile much more steep than upper. Snout broadly de- 

 pressed, rounded when viewed above. Eye large, circular. Man- 

 dible protruding a little. Profile of mandible slightly convex. 

 Teeth in narrow villiform bands in jaws. Maxillary not reach- 

 ing eye. Interorbital space flattened and a little broad. Gill- 

 rakers slender, rather long and numerous. Scales entire. Lateral 

 line a series of small pores, one on each scale below lateral stripe. 

 Spinous dorsal inserted midway between tip of snout and base 

 of caudal. Rayed dorsal inserted about over first third of base 

 of anal, nearer base of caudal than origin of pectoral. Caudal 

 forked. Tip of pectoral extending beyond origin of ventral, 

 which is inserted nearer origin of spinous dorsal than that of 

 pectoral. Color translucent sandy-gray. A narrow silvery lateral 

 streak less in width than pupil of eye. Edges of scales on back 

 dusted brown. Fins pale, dorsal and caudal scarcely darker. 

 Length i^ inches. Anglesea. 



Known to me from our coast by the single example described 

 above which was taken by Messrs W. J. Fox and P. Laurent, 

 October 3d, 1897. 



