KISHKS ()K NKW VOKK 







cheeks not deep; gill rakers long and numerous; otherwise 

 essentially as in P o m o 1 o b u s. The genus S a r d i n e 1 1 a , as 

 here understood, covers a wide diversity of forms and may be 

 divisible into several genera when the anatomy of the species 

 is better known. (After Jordan and Evei niaun) 



i 



1.1(5 Sardinella species 



An individual about 9 inches long was obtained by W. I. De 

 Xyse in Gravesend bay in 1.S95. This was the only one observed 

 in that locality, and it is the only record known of the occur- 

 rence of a fish of this genus north of Florida. The specimen 

 w r as seen and identified as a Sardinella by the writer, but, 

 before he had opportunity to make a detailed study, it disap- 

 peared from the tank in which it was placed and could not be 



found. 



Genus OIMSTHOXEMA Gill 



Characters essentially those of S a r d i u e 1 1 a , except that 

 the last ray of the dorsal is produced in a long filament as in 

 D o r o s o in a , M e g a 1 o p s and Tarpon. Species few, 

 American. 



117 Opisthonema oglinum (Le Sueurj 



Hcrriiitj ; Hlmd Hcrrinij: 



or/Una LE SUEUR. Jour. Ac. Nat. Sc-i. Phila. I. 3.V.t. Sept. ISis. 

 Newport, R. I. 



iidtdfa LE SUEUK. op. cit. 361, Sept. 1818. Guadeloupe. 

 x xif/nifcr I)K KAY. X. Y. Fauua. Fishes, 264. pi. 41, fig. 132, 1842. 

 OpisthoncHiu nf/linii (COOLIE & BEAX. Proc. II. S. Nat. Mus. VIII, 206, June 



8, 1885. 



OpistlionriiKt. (KjU n inn JORDAN & EVERMANX. Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 432, 

 18(16; BEAN, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX. 336, 1897; SMITH. Bull. 

 U. S. F. C. XVII, 91, 1898. 



Body oblong, deep, compressed, its greatest depth one third 

 of the total length without caudal; caudal peduncle short, stout. 

 its least depth one half the length of head; head short, deep. 

 its length one fourth of total length without caudal; eye large. 

 tw r o sevenths to one third of length of head, slightly longer than 

 snout; maxilla reaching to below front of pupil, its width more 



