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Probably most, if not all, of the unidentified crustacean remains, on which the 
digestive fluids had acted to such an extent as to make positive identification 
impossible, consisted of either or both of the other two entries. 
NolsTca Beach, Woods Hole, Mass., July 20, 1915. — Of 25 examples, 1.9 to 3 cm. 
long, the food, given in volumetric percentages, was as follows: Amphipods, 85; 
isopods, 15. All the stomachs were full, and one contained a few grains of sand. 
Menticirrhus littoralis (Holbrook). Sea Mullet, Whiting, Surf Whiting, 
Silver Whiting. 
Menticirrhus littoralis (fig. 57) occurs on the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts 
rarely if ever being found north of North Carolina. Little is recorded of its life 
Fig. 57. — Adult fish. 
MENTICIRRHUS LITTORALIS. 
history. Smith (1907) states that spawning fish have been taken at Beaufort, 
N. C., in June. 
The eggs and larval stages have not been studied. Three examples, 3.8, 5, and 
5.1 cm. long, respectively, seined on the beach at Fort Macon, Beaufort, N. C., 
August 18, 1913 (fig. 56), are the only specimens of the young that have been 
examined. In these the body is less compressed and less deep than in young of 
Menticirrhus saxatilis and M. americanus of the same size, and the color more 
uniform. The ventrals, which are long, reaching to or beyond the vent, have the 
