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Insertion of dorsal fin median, immediately behind base of ventrals; 

 the filauieut reaching end of anal fin. Scales large; nine scutes be 

 hind ventrals. Head 3^; depth 23. D. 14; A. 25; Lat. 1. 40; L. tr. 13. 

 Gulf of Mexico; north to Louisiana. {Giinther.) 



(Chaloessus 7nexicaims Giinther, vii, 409, 1868.) 



Page 273. After StolepJiorus ringens add : 

 452 (b). S. nanus (Grd.) J. & G. 



Pale, but not translucent; sides with a broad silvery shade, but with- 

 out distinct stripe. Body slender, moderately compressed, the belly 

 earinate and faintly serrate. Head compressed, conic, the snoiit rather 

 pointed, bluntish at tip. Maxillary extending beyond root of mandible. 

 Eye not very large. Teeth in both jaws. Pectorals and ventrals short. 

 Head 3^ ; depth 5. A. 22. Southern California ; abundant. Very 

 likely the young of 8. ringens, from which it seems to be separated by 

 the more compressed body. The many specimens obtained by us at 

 San Diego were of the same size, and schools of immature anchovies, 

 uniform in size, are rarely seen. 



( En grauUs nanus Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Siirv. x, 334, 1858.) 



Page 273. After Stolephorus hiulcus, which is probably identical with 

 *S. broicni, read; 



454 (h). S. niitcliilli (C. & V.) J. & G. 



Very pale, translucent, the silvery lateral stripe very narrow and not 

 well defined, scarcely wider than pupil; snout and caudal yellowish, 

 with many dark points; middle line of back with a continuous stripe 

 formed of dark points; dark points along base of anal and behind it. 

 Body rather short and deep, compressed, belly slightly serrated; snout 

 short, not longer than pujnl; eye very large ; maxillary extending beyond 

 root of mandible, about to margin of opercle; both jaws with distinct 

 teeth ; cheeks broadly triangular. Anal long and high, its base 3f in 

 body ; its first ray nearly under middle of dorsal. Pectorals long, 1 J in 

 head. Head 3| ; depth 4. I). 14 ; A. 26; Lat. 1. about 37. L. 2 J inches. 

 Atlantic coast ; abundant from Cape Cod to Southern Texas. 



(EngranUs mitchilli Cuv. & Val. xxi, 50 (not of Giinther): EngrauUsvUtaius Storer, 

 Hist. Fisli. Mass. 341, pi. xxvii, f. 3 (not Clupea viltaia Mitch.): Jordan & Gilbert, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis. 1882: fEngmulis duodecim Cope, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. 1866, 

 405 (last my of dorsal said to be in front of first of anal). 



On page 27G, after Alepidosaurus ferox, add: 

 458 (l>). A. sesculapius Beau. 



Closely related to A.ferox^ differing chiefly in the much shorter pec 



