Jordan and Everniann. — Fishes of North America. 2811 



than that of dorsal, or equal to length of pectoral. Gill rakers 68, the 

 longest about equal to length of snout. Peritoneum pale. Color as in 

 Aloma sapidissima; the caudal, dorsal, and pectoral fins rather darker 

 tipped. The male differs from the female only in being somewhat more 

 slender. This species differs from Alosa sapidissima chielly in the fewer 

 gill rakers, its sharper, more pointed snout, smaller notch in upper jaw, 

 more projecting mandible, and more slender maxillary. It seems to reach 

 maturity at a much smaller size than the common shad. Streams tribu- 

 tary to the Gulf of Mexico ; known from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Pen- 

 sacola, Florida. 



Alosa alabamce, Jordan & EveeiIann, iu Evermann, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm. 1895 (Dec. 

 28, 1896), 203, Black Warrior River, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Type, Nos. 47C89 and 

 47690. Coll. J. H. Fitts) ; EvEiiMANN & Kendall, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1897, 127, 

 pi. 7, figs. 5 and 6. 



According to Ogilby, Kowala is a genus distinct from Sardinella. 

 Page 436. IHsha panamensis is not separable from /. fnrthi. The lat- 

 ter name has priority. 



Page 437. Opisthopterus lutipinnis is very abundant on the outer sand 

 beaches about Mazatlan. 



Page 445. Species 728, Stolcphorus poeyi, is a species of Lycennraulis, 

 and should stand as — 



743(a). LYt'EXGBAULlS POEYI (Kner & Steindachner). 



Numerous specimens lately taken by Dr. Gilbert at Panama. A large 

 species used as food. The teeth are unequal in Lycengraulis, but none of 

 them can 1)e properly described as canine-like. 



Page 447. After Stolephorus lucidus add: 



V32(a). STOLEPHOBUS EASTBALIS, Gilbert & Tiurson, new species. 



Head 3.16 (3.1 to 3.3) ; depth 3.8 (3.5 to 4.2) ; eye 3.4 in head (3.33 to 4). 

 D. 14 (12 to 15); A. 26 to 32. Body much compressed and deep; belly 

 sharply keeled in front of ventrals ; dorsal outline much less curved than 

 ventral, the lower profile rising very rapidly from a point opposite middle 

 of pectorals to tip of snout, in shape of head thus closely resembling the 

 species of Ceteiigraulis. Maxillary reaching almost but not (juite to gill 

 opening; snout high, compressed, its length i to | diameter of eye. Gill 

 rakers averaging in larger examples 51 + 64, in smaller specimens 44 + 50; 

 the largest about as long as eye. Insertion of dorsal fin variable, but 

 never posterior to a point midwaj' between base of caudal and middle of 

 eye; pectoral tins reachiug to or nearly to insertion of ventrals, the latter 

 not to vent. Color olivaceous, the lower part of side with violet reflec- 

 tions; sides of head silvery ; a conspicuous silvery lateral band varying in 

 ■width from about 1^ times length of orbit in the largest examples to less 

 than i orbit in the smaller specimens ; the band is widest before dorsal, 

 tapering to i or less than i its greatest width on caudal peduncle, where 

 it frequently disajipears in the young. In larger specimens the ventral 

 edge of this baud is frequently ill-dehned anteriorly; tup of head with 



