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name has always boon applied to Sardinella ajichovia Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes (1847, p. 269; sec also Poey, 1860, p. 311, and Hubbs, 

 1929, p. 264), an entirely difTerent species, but resembling //. clupeola 

 in external LpT)oarancc. Later, Guichenot (1853, p. 230) also errone- 

 ously applied the vernacular namc^'Sardina de Espaiia" to //. clupeola. 



I have examined the material (U. S. N. M. No. 4795, Poey's orig. 

 No. 377) recorded by Poey (1861, p. 384; 1868, p. 418) as Harengula 

 species dubia and reported upon by Storey (1938, p. 49). There are 

 two specimens 107 and 109 mm. in length in this lot from Cuba, and 

 both are H. clupeola. 



Giinther's description of his Clupea humeralis (1868, p. 422) was 

 almost certainly based on specimens of H. clupeola, H. pensacolae 

 pensacolae, and H. pensacolae majorina, as may be inferred, especially 

 from the character involving the height of the body measured into 

 the length: "twice and three fourths to thrice and a half" (about 2.7 

 to 3.5). In //. clupeola the height of the body is contained 2,9 to 

 3.6, usually 3.0 to 3.5, in the length, and usually 2.5 to 2.9 in 11. pen- 

 sacolae and its subspecies. His synonymy and the localities recorded 

 tend to confirm the above statement. 



The material (U. S. N. M. Nos. 41316, 41332, and 131300) recorded 

 from Port Castries, St. Lucia, as Harengula macrophthalma by Jordan 

 (1890a, pp. 645, 646) is H. clupeola, and that (U. S. N. M. Nos. 37080 

 and 37114) recorded from Cozumel, Yucatan, as H. pensacolae by 

 T. H. Bean (1890, p. 206) is //. clupeola. 



This species, recorded by Jordan and Evermann (1896a, pp. 428, 

 429) as Sardinella clupeola, was erroneously described by them as 

 having 33 ventral scutes. Their S. macrophthalmus, now known to be 

 a synonym, of Harengula clupeola, was recorded in the key (p. 428) 

 as having only 25 to 28 ventral scutes. The range of variation in 

 the number of ventral scutes in H. clupeola is 29 to 32, usually 30 

 or 31 (see table 1). None of the American forms of Harengula so 

 far as known, have more than 32 ventral scutes. 



The figure identified by Metzelaar (1919, p. 10, fig. 2) as Sardinella 

 anchovia was based on a specimen of H. clupeola. This is confirmed 

 not only by the general appearance of the fish but also by certain meas- 

 urements taken on the figure. 



The material reported upon by Breder (1927, pp. 12, 13) as Sardinella 

 macrophthalmus has been examined. Only seven of the nine speci- 

 mens recorded from Glover Reef have been found to be Harengula 

 clupeola; the rest of the material is H. humeralis (see p. 284). 



I have studied the material recorded by Parr (1930, p. 3) as Sardi- 

 nella macrophthalmus and find that the single aberrant specimen 55 

 mm. in length (B.O.C. No. 2554) from Crooked Island, Bahamas, is 

 H. clupeola. Its head is very long, 3.0 in length, and the eye unusually 

 large for this species; its diameter is contained 2.6 times in the 



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