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Clnpea viediocri, MiTCiiiLL, Trans. Lit. and riiil. Soc. N. Y., i, 1815, 4.'J0, New York ; Jor- 

 dan & Gilbert, Syuopsis, 2G6, 1883. 



Clupea mattou-acca, MiTCHiLL, J. c, i, 1815, 451, pi. 5, fig. 8, New York ; Guntiier, Cat., vii, 

 438, 18G8. 



* Cliipea parvnla, Mitchill, /. c, I, 1815, 452, New York. 



? Chipea 2)iisiUa, MiTciiiLi,, /. c, i, 1815, 452, New York. 



Clnpea fasciala, Le SuEUR, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1818, 233, Massachusetts. 



Alosa lineala, Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., it, 1847, 242, Massachusetts ; Storer, Hist. 

 Fishes Mass., 102, 1807. 



Clupea virescens, De Kav, New York Fauna : Fislios, 242, 1842, New York. 



691. POMOLOBIS PSEUDOHARElNCiUS (Wilson). 



(Alewife ; Branch Herring; Gaspereau ; Wall-eyed Herring; Bui-EYED Herring; 



Ellwiee.) 



Head 4| ; depth di ; eye 3i. D. 16 ; A. 19 ; lateral line 50 ; scutes 21 + 14. 

 Body rather deep and compressed, heavy forward. Head short, nearly 

 as deep as long, the profile somewhat steep and slightly depressed 

 above the nostrils. Maxillary extending to posterior margin of pupil. 

 Lower jaw somewhat projecting; upper jaw emarginate. Eye large, 

 slightly longer than snout. Gill-rakers long, 30 to 40 below the angle of 

 the arch, shorter and stouter than in A. saiJidlssima. Lower lobe of caudal 

 the longer. Dorsal fin high, a little higher than long, its height 6^ iji 

 length of body. Bluish above ; sides silvery ; indistinct dark stripes 

 along the rows of scales ; a blackish spot behind opercle. Peritoneum 

 pale. Atlantic Coast of the United States ; abundant ; entering streams 

 to spawn ; also landlocked in the lakes of western New York (var. 

 lacustris), and in Lake Ontario where it is excessively abundant and 

 where great multitudes sometimes die in early summer, {il/evdr/^, false ; 

 harengus, herring.) 



Clupea pseudoharenfjHs, Wilson, Rees's EncycL, IX, about 1811, probably Philadelphia. 

 Clupea vei-nalis* Mitciiill, Kept. Fishes N. Y., 22, 1814, and in Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., 



I, 1815, 454, New York. 

 Clupea megalopn, Rafinesque, Amer. Monthly Mag., 1818, 206, Delaware River. 

 Meletta venosa, Ciivier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xx, 374, 1847, New York. 

 Pomolobus pseudoharemjns lacustris, Jordan, Man. Vert., Ed. I, 265, 1876, Cayuga Lake, New 



York; specimens landlocked. 

 Pomolobus pseudohareiigns, Gill, Rept. U. S. Fish Comm., I, 1871-72, 811. 

 Pmnolobus venialis, GooDE & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst., 24, 1879. 

 Clupea vernalia, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 267, 1883. 



692. POMOLOBUS jESTIVALIS (Mitchill). 

 (Glut Herring; Bue-back; Black-belly; Summer Herring; Kyaoh; Saw-belly.) 

 Head 5 ; depth 31. Similar to the preceding, from which it is best dis- 

 tinguished by the black peritoneum. Body more elongate, the fins lower 

 and the eyes smaller, the back darker. First ray of dorsal not equal to 

 base of fin. Atlantic Coast, appearing later than the preceding; less 

 abundant northward, and less valuable as a food-fish, perhaps ranging 

 farther southward. In the Southern States, more abundant than the 



* According to Dr. Gill, the paper of Alexander Wilson in Rees's Cyclopedia, was pulilishcd 

 before 1814, the date of Mitchill's name vemalis. See McDonald in Goode, Nat. Hist. Aquat. 

 Anim., 580, 594, 1884. 



