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Depth 5 to 534 ; head 31^4 to 3%, width 2% to 2%. Snout 4i/s 

 to 4I/3 in head; eye 3^ to 3I/2, greater than snout or interorbital ; 

 maxillary not quite reaching hind preopercle ridge, length 1% to 11^ 

 in head ; teeth extremely fine, minute ; interorbital 4 to 4i/^, low con- 

 vex. Gill rakers 30+27 (young) to 40, finely and slenderly lanceolate, 

 twice length of gill filaments or % of orbit. 



Scales about 35 (pockets) in median lateral series to caudal base; 

 9 (pockets) transversely between dorsal and ventral origins; 17 

 (pockets) predorsal forward to occiput. No spines on median line 

 of belly or abdomen. 



D. II, 12, first branched ray 1% to 1% in head ; A. 11, 19 or 20, first 

 branched ray about 2%; caudal I14 to 1%; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 3 to 314; pectoral 1% to 2; ventral 214 to 2%. 



Pale brown generally, head with silvery white reflections! Iris 

 silvery white. Broad, ill-defined, gray-white lateral band, perhaps 

 revealed due to all scales having fallen. Fins uniformly pale. 



Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tas- 

 mania, New Zealand. 



U.S.N.M. No. 82904. "Maui, Hawaiian Islands." Locality erroneous, doubtless 

 temperate Australia or New Zealand. U. S. Exploring Expedition. Length, 

 75 mm. (caudal damaged). Type of Anchoviella maun. Also paratype, 

 same data, 77 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 48825. IMaroubra, New South Wales. J. D. Ogilby. 41 examples. 

 Length, 34-50 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 48825. Maroubra, New South Wales. J. D. Ogilby. 2 examples. 

 Length, 58-64 mm. 



ENGRAULIS JAPONICA (Houttuyn) 



Atherina japonica Hotjttuyn, Verb. Holland. Maatseh. Haarlem, vol. 20, p. 340, 

 1782 (type locality: Japan).— Gmeun, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, p. 1397, 

 1789 (copied).— Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. Ill, 1801 (copied). 



EngrauUs japonicns Schlegel, in Siebold's Fauna .Japonica, Poiss., pts. 10-14, 

 p. 239, pi. 108, fig. 3, 1846 (southwest Japan).— Bleekek, Verb. Batav. 

 Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 25, p. 18, 1853 (reference) ; (Japan), vol. 26, pp. 

 6, 119, 1857 (Nagasaki) ; Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-N6erl., vol. 3, No. 3, p. 6, 1858 

 (Japan) ; vol. 5, No. 9, p. 3, 1859 (Nagasaki). — Namiye, Classification Cat., 

 p. 109, 1881 (Tokyo).— ? Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 580, 1895 

 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz). — Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., 

 vol. 3, p. 54, 1901 (reference). — Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 28, p. 194, 1905 (Gensan, Korea). — Jordan and Herre, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 31, p. 638, 1906 (Otaru, Hakodate, Same, Aomori, Onomichi, 

 Wakanoura, Misaki, Tokyo, Tsuruga, Nagasaki). — Kishinouye, Journ. Imp. 

 Fisher. Bur. Tokyo, vol. 14, pi. 20, fig. 1, 1907. — Franz, Abb. Bayer. Akad. 

 Wiss., vol. 4, Suppl. vol. 1, p. 5, 1910 (Fukuura and Onagava Bay). — Snyder, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., vol. 42, p. 403, 1912 (Otaru, Misaki, Hakodate ) .—Izuka 

 and Matstttira, Cat. 2k)ol. Spec. Tokyo Mus. Vertebrata, p. 183, 1920 

 (Hizen).— Jordan and Seale, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 67, p. 391, 1926 

 (Tokyo). — Mori, Journ. Pan Pacific Res. Inst, vol. 3, p. 3, 1928 (Genzan 

 and Fuzan, Korea). — Soldatov and Lindberg, Bull. Pacific Sci. Fisher. Inst, 



