1. CETKXGR.VtJI.IS. 383 



First Group. ENGRAULINA. 



Mouth very wide, lateral ; intermaxillary very small, firmly 

 united to the maxillary, which is elongate and scarcely protrac- 

 tile ; upper jaw projecting, 



1. CETENGRAULIS*. 



Engi-aulis, sp., Cuvier. 



Body oblong, compressed, with the abdomen not serrated. Scales 

 of moderate size. Snout conic, projecting beyond the lower jaw. 

 Teeth none (or quite rudimental). Maxillary very little moveable. 

 Anal tin long ; dorsal fin opposite to the space between ventrals and 

 anal. GiU-membranes united, exceedingly broad, nearly covering 

 the isthmus entirely ; branchiostegals long, filiform, seven or eight 

 in number. 



Central America ; West Indies. 



1. Cetengraulis edentulus. 



Sprat, Sloane,Jam. ii. p. ^^2^ tab. 250. fig. 2. 



Engraulis edentiiliis, Cuvi. Keyne Anim. ; Cuv. ^- Val. xxi. p. 51, 



B. 7. D. 15. A. 23(-26). L. hit. 42. L. transv. 11. 



The height of the body is equal to the length of the head, and 

 one-thu-d of the total (without caudal). Teeth none ; the maxillaiy 

 extends nearly to the manchbulaiy joint. The diameter of the eye 

 is two-ninths of the length of the head. Origin of the dorsal fin 

 nearer to the root of the caudal than to the end of the snout ; com- 

 mencement of the anal fin nearly opposite to the end of the dorsal ; 

 caudal fin not scaly. Pectoral extending to the ventral. ColoratioTi 

 uniform. 



Atlantic coasts of Tropical America. 



a. Several skins, 5 or 6 inches long. Jamaica. Purchased of Mr. 

 Parnell. 



2. Cetengraulis mysticetus. 

 Engraulis mysticetus, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 604. 



B. 8. D. 15-17. A. 20-22. L. lat. 42. L. transv. 14. 

 The height of the body is contained thrice and one-half or thrice 



* 1. Y.n^Ta\\\\^h\-eT\ii. Foci/, Bepcrf.Fh.-Nnf.Cuh.\Bm,\i. ^'9 JromCuha.. It 

 is a mutter of doubt whether this species really belongs to Ce/engraulis. 

 The author compares it with E. edentvliis ; but he compares it also to E. 

 prodvcfuK. which is a true Eyigraiilis. He says that E. brevis has minute 

 teeth on the posterior half of the maxillary. The numbers of fin-rays 

 are evidently erroneous. He appears to hare misimderstood a part of 

 Valenciennes's descrijition of E. edentulus, who describes the two large 

 scales on the candid, but does not siiy that this fin is scaly ; also (he 

 height of the body is, according to Valenciennes, more than one-fourth 

 of the total length, and not. as Poey supposes, contained more than four 

 times in it. 



