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hesitation, referred to the genus the above fish which he describes as having 

 the " body cylindrical" and with its tongue covered " with asperities on its surface." 

 In the " Histoire Naturelle des Poissons,"* Valenciennes, misled perhaps by the 

 generic definition of Dekay, has described what appears to be a true Alosa, 

 as the Alosa teres of Dekay. In the same volume f he has described a fish 

 to which he has given the name of Dussumiera acuta; this fish is there 

 stated to have a most close superficial resemblance to the sardines of the 

 Clupeoid family, but as being separated from them on account of the 

 smooth belly, and as being more nearly related to Butirinus, between 

 which genus and E 1 o p s it was believed that it should be placed. 



Subsequently, Mr. James C. Brevoort, in his " Notes on the Figures of Japan- 

 ese Fish,"| (originally published in the second volume of the Narrative of the 

 United States Expedition to Japan, under Commodore Perry,) in a note on 

 Clupea micropus of Temminck and Schleger, corrected the erroneous ref- 

 erence of Valenciennes, and noticed the near affinity of the Alosa teres to the 

 genus Dussumiera. 



Recently, in the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy, Dr. Charles 

 Girard has referred the same species to the genus Harengula of Valenciennes, 

 on account of the presence of teeth upon the maxillar bones, the tongue, the 

 palatines,, and the pterygoidians, whilst the vomer is toothless." In dentition, 

 A. teres does indeed agree with Harengula, but is totally separated from 

 that genus by the form of the body, and is correctly referable to D u s s u m e r i a, 

 which has teeth upon the same bones, and otherwise agrees with Alosa t er e s . 



The species must, consequently, be hereafter called Dussumiera teres, and 

 its synonymy will be as follows : 



Dussumiera teres Brevoort. 



Synonymy. 



Alosa teres Dekay, Zoology of New York Fishes, p. 262, pi. 40, fig. 128, 1842 

 " Troschel, Bericht in Archiv. fur Naturgeschichte, 1844, vol. ii 

 p. 245, (abstract). 

 " " Storer, Synopsis of the Fishes of North America, p. , ib. in Memoirs 



American Academy, vol. ii., p. 460, (compiled,) 1846. 

 " " Baird, Report on Fishes of New Jersey coast, p. 35 ; ib. in Ninth 



Annual Report Smithsonian Institution, p. 349, 1855. 

 Dussumiera sp. Brevoort, Notes on some figures of Japanese Fish, p. 27 ; ib. in 

 Narrative of Expedition to Japan, vol. ii., p. 279, 1807. 

 Harengula teres Girard,Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad'a, p. 158. May, 1859. 

 (Not "Alausa teres Dekay," Val. Hist. Nat. des Poissons, vol. xx. p. 423.) 



Prodromus descriptionis animalium ever tebrator urn, quae in Expeditione ad 

 Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a RepublicaFederatamissa, Cadwaladaro 

 Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit 



W. STIMPSON. 



Pars VIII. CRUSTACEA MACRURA. 



Thalassinidea. 



359. Gebia subspinosa, nov. sp. G. majori affinis. Foeminae manus pe- 

 dum primi paris intus spina una prope polliceni, || et duabus ad basin dac. 



* Hist. Nat. des Poissons, vol. xx., p. 423. 



t Hist. Nat. des Poissons, vol. xx., p. 467. 



\ Loc. cit., p. 27. 



$Loc. cit., May, 1859. 



II Pollex nobis est digitus immobilis. 



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