﻿REVISION OF GENUS HARENGULA — RIVAS 301 



General coloration (in 70 percent alcohol) silvery, especially on the 

 lower half of the head and body; the opercular plates and the ventral 

 scales with bluish-green or pearlish metallic reflections. Back bluish 

 gray, this coloration changing abruptly into silvery at about one- 

 fourth of the distance to the ventral contour. Sides of body crossed 

 by longitudinal streaks, more conspicuous on the back. Humeral 

 spot always present; usually conspicuous, occasionally faint. Tip of 

 snout and mandible dusky. Upper sector of iris black. Dorsal fin 

 slightly pigmented but not blackish; pectoral, pelvic, and anal fins 

 colorless; caudal fm more heavily pigmented than the dorsal, the 

 inner edges of the lobes fringed with dusky, almost turning to black 

 toward the tips. 



This subspecies is closely related to H. pensacolae pensacolae, from 

 which it differs in the characters given in items 8a and 86 of the key. 

 In general appearance H. pensacolae cubana somewhat resembles H. 

 humeralis, especially in the large eye and the shape of the body, but 

 the number of gill rakers and ventral scutes, the thick and adherent 

 scales, and other characters (see key) separate both forms. 



The usual length attained by H. pensacolae cubana is 48 to 63 mm. 

 The largest specimen at hand is a paratype (U. S. N. M. No. 124308) 

 109 mm. in length. 



H. pensacolae cubana is used as food as well as bait throughout its 

 range. It is captured mostly with cast nets. 



This subspecies is found in company with H. humeralis, along the 

 north coast of western Cuba (Province of Pinar del Rio), including 

 the Colorados Reefs, from Ensenada de Matahambre to Cape Caj6n. 



In addition to the type specimens listed, 14 lots with 52 specimens 

 were examined. Named after Cuba, to which island this subspecies 

 seems to be confined. 



10. HARENGULA PENSACOLAE FLORIDANA. new subspecies 



Sardine; Scaled Sardine 

 Plate 4, Figure 2 



The holotype is an adult 128 mm. in length (U.S.N. M. No. 62584) 

 collected by B. A. Bean (yacht Orion) in Old Rhodes Key, Fla., on 

 December 14, 1908. The following are paratypes: U. S. N. M. No. 

 123750, 15 specimens 40 to 58 mm. in length, collected by S. F. Hilde- 

 brand and W. C. Schroeder at Martello Tower, Key West, on July 3, 

 1919, and No. 125311, 14 specimens 33 to 77 mm. in length, collected 

 by Evermann and Kendall in Key West, Fla., on October 19, 1896. 



This subspecies differs from H. pensacolae cubana in the depth of 

 the head at occiput, as shown in table 3, and in the characters in items 

 10a and 106 of the key. 



H. pensacolae jloridana is known only from the Florida Keys, from 

 Old Rhodes Key to Key West. Throughout its range it is found in 



