430 Bulletiti 41, United States National Museum. 



697. SARDINELLA BISHOPl (Miiller k Troschel). 



Allied to Sarditiella apicaUs, but with a black spot behind operculum 

 aud no black on dorsal; sides -with faint dark streaks; eye large, half 

 height of head ; 11 rows of scales on each side. Barbadoes. (Miiller »& 

 Troschel.) A doubtful species, of uncertain relations. (A personal 

 name.) 



Alosa bishopi, MuLtEii & Tkoscuei,, in Schoniburgk's Hist. Barbadoes, 675, 1848, Barbadoes. 

 Subgenus HARENGULA, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 698. SARDINELLA SARDINA (I'oey). 

 (Sardina de Ley.) 



Heads,'; depth 3^ to 3A. D.15; A. 18; scales 36; scutes 15 + 10. Head 

 1-1^,, in depth of body. Eye very large, i longer than snout, 2i in head. 

 Body rather elongate, the ventral outline little convex, forming a weak 

 arch. Scales less firm and less adherent than in other species of Haren- 

 gula, many of them lost in museum or market specimens ; each scale with 

 four vertical wavy strife on its free edge. Insertion of dorsal nearly 

 midway between snout and base of caudal. Color pale ; no black 

 humeral spot ; trunk with longitudinal streaks ; an orange area behind 

 opercle in life ; tips of dorsal and anal dusky. Length 8 inches. West 

 Indian fauna; abundant: north to Key West. ((Srtrd;i«a, sardine.) 



Harengula sardina, POEY, Memorias, ii, 310, 1800, Cuba. 



Harengiihi vaVnlcjiix, Goode, I'roc. U. S. Nat. Mus., !^7!», 152, Bermuda. 



Harengnla clupeola, Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, 04G; not of Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



699. SARDINELLA MACROPHTHALMUS (Ranzaui). 



Head 3? ; depth 3f ; eye 2|. D. 17 ; A. 18 ; scales 40-12 ; vertebrfe 40. 

 Body moderately elongate, the ventral outline little convex, forming a 

 weak arch ; length of head 1 to 1^ in depth of body ; eye large, I- longer 

 than snout; insertion of ventrals nearly midway between snout and base 

 of caudal. Bluish above, sides silvery ; dark humeral spot usually evi- 

 dent, sometimes wanting; above this a dark line extends, bounding the 

 dark of the back, above this a pale streak ; caudal dusky. Scales less 

 striate than in S. humeralis. West Indies, Cuba to Brazil ; not very com- 

 mon. {/inKpui-, large ; b(l>-&alfiug , eye. ) 



Chipea mucrophlhalma, Kanzani, Nov. Comm. Ac. Sci. Bonon., v, 320, 1842, Brazil; Ginther, 



Cat., VII, 421, 1868. 

 Harengula maadosa, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xx, 292, 1847, Martinique. 

 Earengidajagiiana, PoEY, Kepertorio, 1,190, 1866, Jagua, Cuba, near Cienfuegos. 

 Harengida macrophthalma, Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, 646. 



700, SARDINELLA THRISSINA (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Head 4; depth '3i; ejeS. D. 1.5; A. 13; scales 40-10. Scutes 16 + 13. 

 Body deep, but less so than in S. humeralis. Head large, rather blunt; 

 mouth moderate, the lower jaw projecting, the upper jaw scarcely emar- 

 ginate; maxillary 2 in head, reaching past front of pupil. Both jaws 

 with small teeth; teeth on palatines, pterygoids, and tongue. Eye 

 large. Cheeks and opercles with fine but distinct branching striae. Gill 



