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and very caducous. Caudal and anal bases largely scaly, though 

 scales now largely fallen. Pectoral with free, pointed axillary scale 

 slightly less than half length of fin. Ventral with small, pointed 

 axillary scale. 



Dorsal inserted slightly nearer caudal base than lower jaw tip, 

 graduated down from first branched ray which longest (now dam- 

 aged), depressed fin 2| to caudal base. Anal inserted about opposite 

 first third of dorsal base, first branched ray longest, and base of fin 

 straight. Caudal forked, pointed lobes about equal. Pectoral 

 rather broad, reaches back but slightly beyond ventral base. Ventral 

 about long as pupil, inserted slightly before dorsal origin, and reaches 

 half way to anal. Vent close before anal. 



Color in alcohol pale brownish on back, sides and lower surface 

 whitish, evidently bright silvery-white in life. Same also of head. 

 Lips tinted with brownish. Iris whitish. Fins all pale brownish, 

 dorsal and caudal tinged slightly with dusky about borders. 



Length, 96 mm. 



Type No. 46,959, A. N. S. P. One example from Colon. 1916. 

 D. E. Harrower. 



Related to Pellona castelnceana Valenciennes,^ which differs accord- 

 ing to the description in the numerous ramified striae in the preopercle 

 and opercle, D. 19, A. 36 to 38, and lower caudal lobe marked by a 

 large black spot. Pellona hleekeriana Poey^ is also related, evidently 

 more closely. It is described, however, with the eye 3| in the head, 

 depth 5f in total (in my example 3f ), A. 43, anal placed behind dorsal, 

 length of anal equal to its distance from hind border of eye (anal 

 length shorter in my example), and maxillary to hind pupil edge. ■ 

 As Poey's example was 104 mm. long, it hardly appears likely these 

 differences are due to age. 



(Named for Mr. David E. Harrower, who collected the type.) 



Anchovia macrolepidota (Kner and Steindachner). 



Three examples, 197 to 202 mm. long. 



Ophichthus gomesii (Castelnau). 



Head 3 to vent; head and trunk 2yV hi tail; snout 6 in head; mouth 

 2|; pectoral 2f; eye If in snout and If in interorbital. Teeth 

 biserial in lower jaw and on vomer. Nasal tubes short, pointed. 

 Gill-opening long as snout. Pores on muzzle and head conspicuous. 

 Dorsal inserted just behind end of depressed pectoral. Color in 



3 Hist. Nat. Poisg., XX, 1844, p. 222. Mouth of the Amazon. 

 ^ Repertor. H. N. Cuba, II, 1867, p. 242. Matanzas. 



