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Dorsal origin midway between front pupil edge and caudal base, 

 graduated down from first branched ray which is longest, and tips of 

 anterior depressed rays extending but little behind last rays. Anal 

 origin about opposite base of eleventh branched dorsal ray or a little 

 nearer caudal base than pectoral origin, graduated down from first 

 branched or longest ray. Caudal well forked, pointed lobes about 

 equal. Pectoral about | to ventral. Ventral inserted a trifle nearer 

 pectoral origin than anal origin, and barely reaching half-way to 

 latter. Vent close in front of anal. 



Color in alcohol largely dull brownish, becoming paler about region 

 of peritoneum. Head brownish above, sides and below, also iris, 

 .silver- white. A broad well-defined lateral silvery band, expanding 

 to greatest width over anal where it equals 1| eye-diameters. Fins 

 all pale brownish, dorsal and caudal minutely dotted with dusky. 



Length 3 inches. 



Type No. 1,416, A. N. 8. P. St. Martin's, West Indies. Dr. R, E. 

 Van Rijgersma. 



Also Nos. 1,417 to 1,503, A. N. 8. P., paratypes, same data. Ten 

 of these examples, besides 9 from Fojardo, Porto Rico, identified by 

 Evermann and Marsh 4 as Anchovia chcerostoma (Goode), show: Head 

 3i; to 3^; depth 4^ to 5f ; D. usually in, 12, i, frequently in, 11, i; 

 A. usually in, IS, i, often in, 17, i or in, 19, i, rarely in, 16, i or in, 

 20, i; scales in lateral series usually about 33 or 34, often 32 or 35, 

 seldom 30, 31, 36 or 37 + 2 or 3; usually about 9 scales transversely 

 between dorsal origin and ventral origin; usually 17 predorsal scales, 

 frequently 16, often 15 or 18, seldom 14; snout 4 to 4f in head; eye 

 3| to 4^; maxillary but little less than head; interorbital 3^ to 4£; 

 length If to 2f inches. 



From Anchovia choerostoma (Goode) it differs in the maxillary not 

 reaching the gill-opening, dorsal origin before depressed ventral tips, 

 pectoral not reaching ventral and lateral silvery band wider than eye. 

 Anchovia argentivittata (Regan) has fewer anal rays. Anchovia 

 astilbe (Jordan and Rutter) is without a silvery lateral band. Anchovia 

 cubana (Poey) has a longer maxillary. 



(77Aar6?, broad; apyupos, silver; with reference to the broad silvery 

 lateral band.) 



Anchovia commersonnii (Lacepede). 



Padang, Sumatra 5, of which 2 are now in Stanford University. 



4 Hull. U. S. F. Com., 1900, p. 88. 



