34 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1884. 



NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF ANCHOVIES FROM HAVANA AND KEY WEST, 

 WITH AN ACCOUNT OF A NEW SPECIES (STOLEPHOEUS EUEYSTOLE) 

 FBOM WOOD'S HOLL, MASS. 



BY JOSEPH SWAIN AND SETH E. MEEK. 



The present paper is based on a large collection of Anchovies, 

 made by Professor Jordan at Havana, Cuba, and at Key West, 

 Fla. We recognize two species of Stolephorus in this collection 

 from Havana. Both of these species occur in the collection from 

 Key West, as also Stolephorus miarchus, a species hitherto re- 

 corded only from Mazatlan and Panama on the Pacific Coast. 



We are indebted to Professor Jordan for the use of his library 

 and for valuable suggestions. 



1. Stolephorus perfasciatus (Poey^ Swain and Meek. 



Engraulis perfasciatus Poey, Memorias Cuba, ii, 313, 1858 (Havana); 

 Poey, Syn. Pise. Cuba, 421, 1868 (Havana) (not of Poey, Synopsis, 

 p. 460); Giinther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vii, 391 (Cuba) (not of 

 Swain, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1882, 55, nor of Jor. and Gilb., Syn. 

 Fish. N. A., 273). 



Head 4 to 4^ in length to base of caudal. Depth 5f to 6^. 

 Dorsal 12 to 13. Anal 14 to 16. 



Body oblong, somewhat compressed. Snout shorter than eye, 

 compressed and painted. Top of head with a slight keel. Eye 

 about 3^ in head. Mouth slightly oblique. Maxillary and lower 

 jaw finely toothed. The posterior end of maxillary rounded, not 

 extending quite to margin of preopercle. Gill-rakers numerous, 

 rather weak and toothed on under side, the longest about 1^ in 

 eye. Pectoral fins about If in head, their tips not reaching 

 ventrals by about diameter of eye. Yentrals short, their tips not 

 reaching anal b}' length of fin. Caudal forked. Origin of anal 

 below last ray of dorsal. Origin of dorsal midway between root 

 of caudal and pupil. Scales deciduous. Color as in Stolephorus 

 broioni, without dark punctulations except on base of caudal 

 and often on base of anal. Sides with a well-defined silvery 

 band, its width about | eye, being rather narrower than usual in 

 S. browni. 



This description is taken from numerous well-preserved speci- 

 mens, about 2 J inches in length, obtained by Prof. Jordan with 



