Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 429 



LitK (Matti-lile, an ludian name given in Pondicherry to Clupea lile) : 

 aa. Sides with a very distinct lateral silvery band; scales very firm, without vertical strire; 

 mouth very small, almost vertical; teeth small, none on vomer; tip of snout, chin, 

 and upper fins dusky. stolifeba, 702. 



Subgenus SARDINELLA. 



694. SARDINELLA ANCHOVIA (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Head about 4i ; depth 4^. D. 16 ; A. 16. Body elongate and slender. 

 Scales smooth, large, striated. Suborbital bones finely veuulose ; teeth on 

 tongue and palatines, none on vomer ; jaws mostly toothless. Dorsal 

 nearer snout than root of caudal, the veutrals inserted below its middle. 

 A black spot on opercle above. Martinique to Brazil ; said to be closely 

 allied to the European Sai'dineUa aiirita, also a little known species; 

 apparently recognizable by the opercular spot. (Cuvier «fe Valenciennes.) 

 {Anchovia, anchovy.) 



Sardinella anchovia, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., .w, 209, 1847, Rio Janeiro; Mar- 

 tinique. 

 Clupea anchovia, GiiNTHER, Cat., vii, 421, 18G8. 



695. SARDINELLA CLUPEOLA (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



(Cailleu.) 



Head 1 in total length with caudal; depth 4. D. 18; A. 18. Ventral 

 scutes 33. Head short ; profile of back straightish ; snout rather long and 

 blunt. Last rays of dorsal very short ; ventrals under seventh dorsal ray. 

 Scales very solid, striate ; serrations of belly less strong than In some 

 species. Steel-blue above, silvery below ; the back with traces of longi- 

 tudinal streaks; yellow blotch in life behind opercle. Guadeloupe; a food- 

 fish of delicate flavor. (Cuvier & Valenciennes.) A little known species, 

 not recognized by late writers, identified by Poey with Sardinella humer- 

 alis and later by Jordan with Sardinella sardina, but different from either 

 if the above description is trustworthy;* the ventral scutes more numer- 

 ous. (Diminutive of Clupea, herring.) 



Harmgida clupeola, Cuvier &, Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xx, 289, 1847, Guadeloupe. 



696. SARDINELLA APICALIS (Miiller * Troschel). 



D. 18; A. 17. Lower jaw longer than upper; maxillary reaching first 

 third of eye, which is more than half head. Ventrals under middle of 

 dorsal. Scales large, forming nine rows on each side of body. Scales sil- 

 very, each one on belly with a copper-colored spot ; point of snout above 

 and beneath, black; a small, black, longitudinal band on front and a 

 black spot over each eye ; tip of dorsal and edge of caudal black. Bar- 

 badoes. (Miiller »&. Troschel.) A species of uncertain relations, (ajjicalis, 

 of the apex, the tip of snout black.) 



Alosa apicalui, MiiLLEE & Troschel, in Schomburgk's Hist. Barbadoes, G75, 1848, Barbadoes. 

 Clupea apicalis, Gijnthek, Cat., vii, 441, 1868. 



* Possibly identical with Clup<a hraxilU'iisis, Steinuachner, Ichtli. Beitr., viii, 64,1879, Rio 

 Janeiro ; name preoccupied, chauged to Clupea Janeiro, Eiqenmann & Bbay, Ann. N. Y. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci., 1894, 626. 



