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Sardinella macrophthalma (Ranzani). 



New Providence, Bahama Is. 6; Port Antonio, Jamaica 3; St. 

 Martin's 3, Santa Crnz 3, W. I. 



Sardinella stolifera (Jordan and Gilbert). 



Mazatlan, Mex. 47. 



GUDUSIA subgen. nov. 

 Type Clupanodon chapra Hamilton-Buchanan. 



Differs from the other subgenera included in Sardinella by its 

 small scales, which are about 80 to 120 in a lateral series. 

 (Gudusa, the native name.) 



Sardinella chapra (Hamilton-Buchanan). 



Ganges R., India 6. 



Opisthonema oglinum (Le Sueur). 



Beesley's Point 4, Sea Isle City 3, N. J.; N. America 5 (in Bona- 

 parte Coll.); Santo Domingo 3; Port Antonio, Jamaica 1; Hucares 1, 

 San Juan 1, Porto Rico; Santa Cruz, W. I. 1; Rio Janeiro, Brazil 2. 



Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe). 



Waquoit 3, Nantucket 24, Wood's Hole 3, Mass.; Seaside Park 1, 

 Atlantic City 1, Great Egg Harbor Bay 5, Beesley's Point 2, Corson's 

 Inlet 1, Washington Park 1, N. J.; Ft. Delaware, Del. 6; Chestertown 

 1, Big Bohemia Creek 2, Patapsco R. 3, Potomac R. 1, Md.; Ft. 

 Macon, N. C. 2; S. Carolina 3; N. America 1 (Bonaparte Coll.). 

 Brevoortia tyrannus patronus (Goode). 



Mississippi Sound at New Orleans, La. 2; Grand Plains Bayou, 

 Miss. 3. 



Brevoortia tyrannus aurea (Agassiz). 



One without data, probably from Brazil ? 



Brevoortia tyrannus dorsalis (Valenciennes). 



Gaboon R., W. Africa 2. 



HERINGIA gen. nov. 

 Type Clupea amazonica Steindachner. 



Body strongly compressed, with trenchant serrated abdomen formed 

 by bony scutes. Head small, well compressed. Mouth small. No 

 teeth. Mandible protruding. Maxillary broad. Cheek normal. Gill- 

 rakers slender, numerous. Branchiostegals about 5. Scales large, 

 narrowly imbricated, cycloid, edges entire. No lateral line. Dorsal 

 moderate, inserted behind ventral base, and fin entirely before anal. 

 Anal rays few. Caudal forked. Pectoral low, not reaching ventral. 

 Ventral depressed less than half space to anal. Coloration silvery. 



