110° REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
longest 74 of orbit. Belly compressed, serrulate. Dorsal in- 
serted nearer base of caudal than tip of snout. Anal in a scaly 
sheath, beginning about midway under dorsal. Caudal forked, 
lobes sharp. Pectoral and ventral falling well short of succeed- 
ing fins. Color translucent grayish with a broad silvery band 
becoming nearly equal to orbit in width posteriorly. Orbit bright 
silvery. Dorsal and caudal shaded marginally with a hele pale 
dusky. Length 37% inches. Ocean City. 
In life general color of the above translucent sandy-brown, and 
back when viewed from above with a brilliant emerald streak in 
form of reflection longitudinally. Lateral band from shoulder 
to caudal, and head, brilliant mercury or silvery. Iris. silvered 
white. Fins pale translucent brown, caudal and base of anal 
dusted with pale dusky. 
Found in the surf at the above locality, oes less abundant 
than the following. 
Stolephorus browni Bean, Bull U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 
149.—Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, 6: 359.—smith, 
Bulla Wars: BesGom. oOUll, 1 S92)" pi3260! 
Engraulis vittata Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths Inst., 1854, p 
347.—Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 822.—Verrill, Am. Nat., V, 
1871, p. 398. 
Anchovia mitchilli (Valenciennes). 
Sperlin. 

Sperlin. Anchovia mitchilli (Valenciennes). 
Head 4%; depth 4%; D. u, 12; A. m1, 25; scales about 
40 to base of caudal; 7 scales between dorsal and anal; snout 
4% in head; eye 3; maxillary 1%; interorbital space 4%; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 2'/,,; pectoral 174; ventral 234. 
Body a little short, compressed. Head short, blunt, compressed. 
Snout short, its length about equal to pupil. Eye very large. 
