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upper margin brownish bhie-green. Dorsal and caudal gray-brown, 

 other fins transparent whitish. 



In the shallows of the Marquesas 30 examples were seined, asso- 

 ciated with the Anchovies and other small fishes. In a tide-pool on 



Fig. 3. Harengnla humeralis (Valenciennes) 



Hailer's Rock 2 were also taken. After being in alcohol some time 

 most of the examples have the peritoneum showing plainly through 

 the body-wall. 



19. Clupanodon oglina (Linnaus).^ Thread Herring. 



Occasional. No examples taken. 



BNGRAULIDID^. 

 20. Anchovia brownii (Gmelin). Sardine. 



Color in life, above clear transparent hyaline-greenish washed with 



1 Drs. Jordan and Gilbert, in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1SS2 (1883), p. 574, 

 have restricted Lacepede's genus Clupanodon to jussieui. Later Drs. Jordan 

 and Evermann, in Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, 1, 1896, p. 422, apparently con- 

 sider pilchardus as typical. These precepts do not fall within the rule of elimina- 

 tion as the last name for which a generic name is proposed, so far as I can find, 

 is thrissa. For this Dr. Gill proposed Opisthonema. At any rate Sardinia cannot 

 be so considered as it is a synonym of Thrissa Rafinesque. Lacepede's species 

 thrissa may be considered restricted to the American Thread Herring, as the 

 Chinese fish included under Osbeck's reference is one of the Dorosomatidoe. Opis- 

 thonema Gill is thus to be superseded by Clupanodon Lacepede The True Sar- 

 dines formerly placed under the latter name, will stand as species of Thrissa 

 Rafinesque, with Clupea pilchardus Linnseus as the type. Messrs. Jordan and 

 Seal have pertinent remarks in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVIII, 1905 p. 771. 



