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Body elongate, subcylindrical ; head elongate, compressed; snout 

 short, rather bkmt; eye large, adipose eyelid well developed; jaws 

 subequal ; mouth small, horizontal : maxillary reaching vertical from 

 middle of eye; no teeth on jaws; gillrakers numerous, very slender 

 and long, longer than eye, 3.5 in head, angle sharp ; veining on cheeks 

 and opercles very distinct, these extending backward onto shoulders. 



Scales thin, deciduous, very weakly ctenoid; median line of belly 

 armed with scutes, 20 anterior to ventrals, 15 between ventrals and 

 anus: origin of dorsal two-thirds diameter of eye nearer tip of 

 snout t^an base of caudal; dorsal triangular, middle rays shorter; 

 caudal deeply forked; anal low; ventrals short, 3 in head, origin of 

 ventrals slightly posterior to middle of dorsal; tip of pectoral ex- 

 tending to within one diameter of eye from origin of ventral. 



Color, lustrous blue on back, becoming silvery yellow on belly ; fins 

 dusky. 



Coast of Peru and Chile, New South Wales. 



In Sherrin's Handbook of the Fishes of New Zealand (page 72, 

 1886) we find the following note on this species: 



This herring visits the east coast of Otago every year in Febru- 

 ary and March, and when the schools migrate, they extend as far as the eye 

 can reach, followed by a multitude of gulls, mutton-birds, baracuda and por- 

 poises. So densely packed are they some years that by dipping a pitcher in 

 the sea, it would contain half fish, so that if large boats and suitable nets were 

 employed thousands of tons could be caught. 



Genus HARENGULA Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



20. HARENGULA STOLIFERA (Jordan aad Gilbert). 

 FELADA. 



CVupea stoUfera Jordan and Gilbekt, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4, 

 1881, p. 339 ; Mazatlan, Mexico. 



Sardinella stoUfera Jordan, Fishes of Sinaloa, Reprint, Proc. California 

 Acad. Sci., ser. 2, vol. 5, 1895, p. 408, pi. 28. — Jordan and Evermann, 

 Fishes North and Mid. Amer., vol. 1, 1896, p. 431 ; vol. 4, 1898, pi. 73, fig. 

 194. — Boulenger, Bull. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp., Torino, vol. 14, 1899, 

 p. 1. — Gilbert and Starks, Fishes of Panama Bay, Mem. Cal. Acad. 

 Sci., vol. 4, 1904, p. 39. 



Two specimens, field Xo. 1030, 14 and 14.3 cm. long, from Capon. 



Head 4.32 in length ; depth 3.4 ; eye 2.9 to 3.1 in head ; snout 3.66 ; 

 maxillary 2.4; interorbital 4; P. 1.2; V. 1.85; D. 15-16; A. 19-22; 

 scales 40-11; scutes 17+12=29. Body deep and strongly com- 

 pressed, the ventral outline more strongly arched than the dorsal; 

 greatest depth of body in front of dorsal; head short; lower jaw 

 projecting, upper slightly emarginate; mouth small, oblique; no 

 teeth on vomer or palatines, small patch on tongue ; a few small weak 

 teeth on each jaw; eye large, longer than snout, adipose eyelid well 

 40656°— Bull. 95—17 3 



