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209. Pomolobus pseudoharengus (Wilson). Alewife; Branch herring; Gas- 



pereau; Wall-eyed herring; Big-eyed herring; Sawbelly; Ellivije; Bang. 

 Atlantic coast of the United States; Lake Ontario and landlocked in 



the "Finger Lakes" of New York. 

 Clupea pseudoharengus Wilson, in Rees's Encycl., IX, about 1811, 



probably Philadelphia. 

 Clupea vernalis Mitchill, Rept. Fish. N. Y., 1814, 22, and Trans., Lit. 



Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 454, New York. 

 Clupea megalops Ilafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag., 1818, 206, Delaware 



River. 

 Melctta venosa Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XX, 1847, 



374, New York. 



Pomolobus pseudoharengus lacustris Jordan, Man. Vert., ed. I, 1876, 

 265, Cayuga Lake, New York; specimens landlocked. 



210. Pomolobus mediocris (Mitchill). Hickory shad; Hickory jack; Fall 



herring; Tailor herring; Mattowacca. 



Atlantic coast of United States from Maine to Florida. 



Clupea mediocris Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 450, 

 New York. 



Clupea mattoivacca Mitchill, loo. cit., 451, pi. 5, fig. 8, New York. 



? Clupea parvula Mitchill, loc. cit., 452, New York. 



? Clupea pusilla Mitchill, loc. cit., 452, New York. 



Chipea fasciata LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1818, 233, 

 Massachusetts. 



Clupea virescens DeKay, New York Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 242, New 

 York. 



Alosa lineata Storer, Proc, Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., II, 1847, 242, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



211. Pomolobus aestivalis (Mitchill). Glut herring; Blueback; Black-belly; 



Summer herring; Kyack; Sawbelly. 

 Atlantic coa-st. 

 Clupea seslivalis Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 456, 



New York. 

 Alosa cyanonolon Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, 161, Provincetown, 



Mass. 

 Subgenus POMOLOBUS Rafinesque. 



212. Pomolobus chrysochloris Rafinesque. Skipjack; Blue herring; Nailrod. 



Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi Valley; ascending streams, and intro- 

 duced through the canals into Lake Erie and Lake Michigan. 



Pomolobus chrysochloris Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 1820, 38, Ohio 

 River. 



Meletta sueurii Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XX, 1847, 



375, Wabash River. 



Genus 96. ALOSA Linck. Shad. 



Alosa Linck, Mag. Neuestes Phys. Naturgesch., 1790, 35 (scarcely 



defined; type not specified; Clupea alosa L. = Alosa Cuvier). 

 Alosa Cuvier, R6gne Anim., ed. II, 1829, 319 (Clupea alosa L.). 

 Alausa Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XX, 1847, 389 

 (Clupea alosa L.). 



213. Alosa sapidissima (Wilson). Common shad; American shad; North 



River shad; Potomac shad; Connecticut River shad. 

 Atlantic coast of United States, from Miramachi River to Florida; 



from Monterey northward on the Pacific coast, as an introduced 



species. . 



Clupea sapidissima Wilson, in Rees's New Cyclopedia, IXg., neither 



pagination nor date, but prior to 1812; no locality, but probably 



Philadelphia. 

 Clupea indigena Mitchill, Trans. Lit Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 454, 



New York. 

 Alosa praestabilis DeKay, New York Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 255, pi. 15, 



fig. 4, New York. 



214. Alosa ohiensis Evermann. Ohio shad. 



Mississippi River basin; Ohio River. 



Alosa ohiensis Evermann, Rept. U. S. Fish Com., XXVII, 1901 (1902), 

 277, tig. 2, Ohio River at the falls. 



