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Nils Rosén 



Farn. Clupeidae. 



JenJcinsia stolifora, Joed. & Gilbert. 



Common along the shore. Many specimens collected at Nassau and Mastic 

 Point on Andros. Spanish Wells (Exp. Geogr. Soc.) 



Sardinella sardina, Poet. 

 Collected by the steamer Albatross at Nassau. Green Cay (Edwards). 



Sardinella chipeola, Cuv. & Valenc. 

 Green Turtle Cay (Edwards). 



Fam. Anguillidse. 



Anguilla chrysypa, Rafinesqüe. 



Two specimens collected in a brackish pond at Mastic Point on Andros (March 



1909) both females, measuring 48 and 54 cm. — Not before recorded from the 

 Bahamas. 



Congromurœna halearica (De la Roche). 



One specimen collected at Mastic Point on Andros (August 1908). Not before 

 recorded from the Bahamas. 



Colour in living specimens: Grey. Each side of body with longitudinal band 

 of silvery rectangular spots. Above this on each side a narrow indistinct silvery 

 line, most distinct in the middle part. Back with small greyish blue dots and a 

 little larger dirty yellow ones (both kinds only visible by slight magnification). 



Stilhiscus Edivardsi, Jordan & Bollman. 

 Green Turtle Cay (Edwards). 



Sphagebranehus anguijormis, Peters. 

 Off Abaco (Allen & Barbour 1904). 



Verma kendalU, Gilbert. 

 Green Cay (Exped. Geogr. Soc). 



Myriophis punctatus, Lütken. 



Off Governor's Island in 5 fathoms of water on a bottom of coral sand [Exp. 

 Geogr. Soc). 



Fam. Muraenidse. 



Lycodontis moringa, Cuvier. 



Common about the coral reefs ; the smaller specimens mostly along the shores 

 in rock-holes, dead shells etc. Several specimens collected both at Nassau and at 

 Mastic Point on Andros. Green Turtle Cay (Edwards). 



