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anteriorly elevated. Anal inserted before tip of depressed spinous 

 dorsal or nearer origin of pectoral than base of caudal, and 

 anteriorly elevated. Caudal forked, lobes not especially sharp- 

 -ened. Pectoral broad, reaching ventral. Ventral inserted nearer 

 origin of spinous dorsal than that of pectoral, and reaching half 

 way to anal. Color translucent sandy, scales on back edged with 

 dull dusk}^ or grayish. A silvery lateral band half width of 

 orbit. Chin specked with dusky gray. Fins pale. Length 4^ 

 inches. Ocean City. 



Color of the above in life translucent sandy-brown, edge of 

 each scale on back margined darker with dusky dots. A narrow 

 lateral silvery streak from axilla to base of caudal, sharply de- 

 fined from back by a narrow streak of hyaline greenish on its 

 upper edge along entire course. Fins translucent like body- 

 color, and without markings. Along base of anal a series of 

 dark hyaline brownish-green dots showing through scales of 

 hody. Base of pectoral at shoulder-girdle tinted with dull amber. 

 Top of head and side bright silvery-white and with emerald re- 

 flections. Muzzle translucent brownish. Iris bright silvery. 

 Peritoneum showing through bright silvery-white over whole 

 of coelome. Inside of gill-opening tinted with emerald and dusky. 



Very abundant on the Xew Jersey coast. I have taken very 

 many examples from Atlantic City, Anglesea and Stone Harbor. 

 Prof. Baird's examples from Beesley's Point, and others, are in 

 the Academy's collections. They are abundant in Cape May, 

 and are also found in Delaware Bay. Now used as food or bait. 



Atherinopsis nofafus Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, 



P- 338- 



Argyrea notata Abbott, Geol. X. J., 1868, p. 816. 



Menidia notata Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., Yll, 1887, p. 146. 

 —Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 360. 



Family MUGILID^. 



The Mullets. 



Bod}^ oblong, more or less compressed. Mouth small. Jaws 

 with small teeth or none, and when present of various form. 



