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maxillary narrow, little movable, usually formed of three 

 pieces, extending backward far behind the eye, to the base of the 

 mandible, or beyond, not beyond gill opening; premaxillaries- 

 very small; teeth small, subequal, present at all ages, usually 

 on the jaws, vomer, palatines, and pterygoids. Anal fin moder- 

 ate, free from caudal (its rays 12 to 40); no pectoral filaments; 

 dorsal inserted about midway of body, posterior to ventrals; 

 pectorals and ventrals each with a large axillary scale. Adi- 

 pose eyelid obsolete. Vertebrae about 40 (40 to 42) in species 

 examined. Flesh rather pale and dry, more or less translucent, 

 the bones firm. Pseudobranchiae present; branchiostegals nine 

 to 14; gill rakers long and slender; gill membranes separate, free 

 from the narrow isthmus. 



119 Stolephorus brownii (Gmelin) 



Striped Anohovy 



Atherina brownii Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1397, 1788. 



Clupea vittata Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N.Y. I, 4o6, 1815; De Kay, 



N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 254, 1842. 

 Engraulis vittata Baird, 9th Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst. 347, 1855. 

 EngrauUs broicnii Gunthee, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VII, 389, 1868. 

 Stolcphwns broirni Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. IG, U. S. Nat. Mus. 273, 1883; 



Bean, Bull. U. S. F. C. VII, 149, 1888; 19th Rep. Comm. Fish. N. Y. 



279, 1890. 

 Stolephorus broivnii Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 443, 



1896; Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. XVII, 92, 1898; Bean, 52d Ann. Rep't 

 ' N. Y. State Mus. 97, 1900. 



Body moderately elongate, comjiressed, but thicker than in 

 S. m i t c h i 1 1 i, its greatest depth two ninths of the total 

 length without caudal, and equal to length of head without the 

 snout, the thickness one half length of head; head moderate, its 

 length rather more than one fourth of total without caudal, the 

 snout short and obtusely pointed, one fifth of length of head, 

 two thirds of length of eye; eye equal to width of interorbital 

 space, about two sevenths as long as the head. The maxilla 

 reaches as far back as the mandible, but not to hind edge of 

 operele. The mandible is partly covered by the maxilla, its tip 

 in advance of the front of eye and overhung by the snout. Teeth 

 moderately strong, those on the posterior part of the maxilla 



