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out the West Indies, and has been observed as far south as Bahia and 

 east to the Cape Verde Islands. Its accidental occurrence at Newport, 

 B. I., has been recorded. 



Color. — Adults golden-green, young golden-yellow, with five black 

 cross-bands, which are not as broad as the interspaces between them, 

 the first from a point in front of the origin of the dorsal to the base of 

 the pectoral; the second below the third and fifth dorsal spines; the 

 third from the eighth and tenth dorsal spines toward the vent; the 

 fourth from the twelfth and thirteenth dorsal spines to the middle of 

 the anal ; the fifth below the end of the soft dorsal and continued on 

 the posterior rays of the dorsal and anal. 



The ventrals, soft dorsal, and anal are produced ; the fourth and fifth 

 rays of soft dorsal and the fifth and sixth of anal longest. Dorsal and 

 anal prolongations in young reaching to a point half-way between the 

 posterior angle of dorsal and the base of caudal rays; in adults reach- 

 ing quite beyond the base of caudal rays. External caudal rays twice 

 the length of median. 



GEREID^. 



EUCINOSTOMUS GULA, (Cuv. d; Yal) Goode. 

 Shad. 



Gerres gula, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. vi, 1830, 464.— Jenyns, Zool. Voy. H. M. S. 

 Beagle, 1842, 58.— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iv, 1862, 255.— Muller & 

 Troschel, Schomburgk, Hist. Barbados, 1848. — PoEY,Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 

 1861, 368. 

 Diapierus gula, Poey, Kep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 323. 



Common and secured in quantity in the shallow bays, with Decapterus 

 punctatus, Uucinostomus Lefroyi, and Traclmrops crumenophthalnius. The 

 largest specimens seen, which were apparently adult, measure six inches 

 in length ; intermediate sizes down to one inch were observed. 



The species has also been seen about Martinique, Santo Domingo, 

 Cuba, Jamaica, and Bahia. The " Turdus cinereiispeltatus " of Catesb^,* 

 for which he gives the common name of " Shad," seems to be identical 

 with this species or the closely-allied Uucinostomus ayrion, if not with the 

 following species. 



EUCmOSTOxMUS LEFEOYI, Goode. " 

 Long-boned Shad. 



Diapteriis Lefroyi, Goode, Amer. Journ. Sci. & Arts, viii, 1874, (Aug.) 123. 



This species is distinguished from all other members of the family and 

 genus by its relatively greatly-elongated form. The body is fusiform, 

 * Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahamas, ii, p. 11, t.ab. si, fig. 1. 



