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anal low, distal margin truncate, anterior rays longest; ventrals 

 short, tips reaching over half distance from base to vent; tips of 

 pectorals extending to within two-thirds diameter of eye to base of 

 ventrals; scales striate and fimbriate; scutes on abdomen distinct, 

 those in front of dorsal, weak ; venules on cheek, opercle, and shoulder 

 very distinct; opercle translucent. 



Color in alcohol: Small examples blackish on back, silvery on 

 sides and belly; scales everywhere glassy; a row of 4 to 11 small 

 oblong black areas from upper edge of opercle along the side to 

 below posterior base of dorsal; opercle dusky; caudal light with 

 dusky marking; anal light, anterior rays tipped with dusky; pec- 

 torals and ventrals light. 



In the larger individuals the sides below blacldsh, back yellowish, 

 becoming silvery on the elongate scales above scutes of belly ; row of 

 black spots from opercle in lower part of dusky area scarcely dis- 

 cernible. In the largest individual there is a row of 8 black spots 

 nearly as large as pupil from center of opercle along side to behind 

 dorsal, below this row 3 other spots anteriorly ; in the other example, 

 these are very irregular in their arrangement; inner dark border to 

 caudal lobes very distinct. 



Genus SARDINELLA Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



19. SARDINELLA SAGAX (Jenyns). 

 SAKDINA. 



Clupea sagax Jenyns, Zool. Voy. Beagle, Fislies, 1842, p. 134 ; Lima ; San 



Lorenzo Islands. — Steindachner, Fanna Chilensis, 1898, p. 331. — 



Delfin, Cat. Feces de Chile, 1901, p. 39. 

 Alavsa flmhriata Kner and Steindachner, Neue Fische, Mus. Godei¥, Sitz. 



Akad. Wiss. Wein, 1S66, p. 31 (386), fig. 15; Valparaiso. 

 Clupanodon fimhriata Abbott, Marine Fishes Peru, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., 1899, p. 332. 

 Clupanodon flmbriatus Abbott, Marine Fishes Peru, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., 1899, p. 334. 

 Clupanodon sagax Abbott, Marine Fishes Peru, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., 1899, p. 334. 

 Sardinella sagax Jordan, Guide to Study Fishes, vol. 2, 1905, p. 50, name 



only. 

 Sardinella flmbriata Starks, Fishes from Ecuador and Peru, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., vol. 30, 1906, p. 778. 



One specimen, field No. 446, 21 cm. in length, and two specimens, 

 field No. 452, 17 and 19.6 cm. in length, from Callao; and 21 speci- 

 mens, field No. 09448 (part), 2.8 to 5.3 cm. in length from Lobos de 

 Afuera. 



Head 3.27 in length; depth 4.35; eye 4 in head; snout 3.46; maxil- 

 lary 2.36; pectoral 1.57; D. 18; A. 18. 



