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a seine at Key West. Five specimens, the largest about 3 inches 

 in length, were also obtained at Havana. 



Stolephorus perfasciatus Jordan and Gilbert, Sj'n. Fishes North 

 America, p. 273, and Swain, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1882, p. 55, 

 is a different species, apparently without a name. It diflfers 

 chiefly in a greater number of anal rays, and in having a wider 

 and less silvery lateral band. No specimen of the true perfas- 

 ciatus is known to reach the size of the specimen from Wood's 

 Holl, Mass. This species from Wood's Holl may stand as 

 Stolephorus eurystole Swain and Meek. Specimens of this species, 

 perhaps mixed with others, have been distributed by the U. S. 

 National Museum under the following numbers, 19,003 to 19.017. 

 The one originally described by Mr. Swain and by Jordan and 

 Gilbert- was destroyed in the burning of the Museum of the 

 Indiana University, but others like it exist in the U. S. National 

 Museum. 



2. Stolephorus browai (Gmelin^ Jordan and Gilbert. 



This species is by far the most common of the Anchovies, both 

 at Key West and Havana. For synonymy and description see 

 Swain, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1882, 56. Engraulis perfasciatus 

 Poey, Syn. Pise. Cuba, 1868, 460, is apparently' not a true 

 perfasciatus, and is probably this species. 



3. Stolephorus miarohus Jordan and Gilbert. 



Stolephorus miarclius Jordan and Gilbert, Proceed. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 1881, 334 (Mazatlan). 



Four specimens from Key West. We are unable to detect any 

 discrepancy between these specimens and the descriptions pub- 

 lished by Jordan and Gilbert of the types of this species from 

 Mazatlan. 



4. Cetengraulis brevis (P'ey) Swain and Meek. 



Engraulis brevis Poey, Repert. Fis. Nat. Cuba, i, 879, 1866 (Cuba) ; 

 Poey, Syn. Pise. Cuba, 422, 1868 (Cuba) ; Giinther, Cat. Fishes 

 Brit. Mus., vii, 383, 1868 (no specimen). 



Head in length to base of caudal, 3^ (4^ in total) ; greatest 

 depth 3 (3|) ; about 40 scales in lateral line, and 11 scales in a 

 transverse series beginning at origin of anal fin. Anal 33 to 25. 

 Dorsal 15. 



Body deep, compressed ; belly compressed, not serrate. Head 

 rather short. Snout short and sharply pointed, If in eye, which 



