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and ventral; abdominal scutes 20 + 14; mandible 1!1/,, in head; 
edge of dorsal anteriorly 174; base of anal 1%; pectoral 1%; 
ventral 2; least depth of caudal peduncle 21%4; snout 4% in 
head measured from tip of upper jaw; eye 4; maxillary 22/,; 
interorbital space 413. Body ovoid, deepest anteriorly. Head 
attenuated rather superiorly, or lower profile more oblique. Man- 

Alewife. Pomolobus pseudoharengus (Wilson). 
(Upper figure male, lower female.) 
dible protruding but slightly. Maxillary reaching posterior por- 
tion of pupil, and its greatest expansion about 34 of orbit. 
Upper jaw emarginate in front. Interorbital space a little con- 
vex. Opercular edge of gill-opening moderately emarginate pos- 
teriorly and below. Gill-rakers about 27 ++ 48, slender, finely 
dentate, and equal to eye, or longer than filaments. Peritoneum 
