64G FISHES FROM ST. LUCIA, WEST INDIES JORDAN. 



6. Body deep, with the ventral outline forming an even curve from cliin to vent; 

 depth of body, 2f to 3 in length to base of caudal (3j to 3| with caudal) ; head, 

 3| in length, 1£ to 1^ in depth of body; eye moderate, one-third longer 

 than snout, 2§ in head; insertion of ventrals nearer tip of snout than base 

 of caudal; dark humeral spot often obscure or wanting; usually a row of 

 dark points extending backward from it along upper part of sides of body; 

 caudal pale. (Specimens from Cedar Keys, Key West, Havana, and St. 

 Lucia) Akcuata. 



bb. Body more elongate, the ventral outline little convex, forming a weak arch ; 

 depth of body, 3f in length to base of caudal (4i with caudal); head, 3? in 

 length, 1 to ly in depth of body; eye large, li longer than snout, 2J in 

 head; insertion of ventrals nearly midway between snout and base of cau- 

 dal; dark humeral spot usually evident, sometimes wanting; above this 

 spot a narrow dark streak extends, bounding the dark color of the back ; 

 just above this a pale streak ; caudal dusky ; scales a little less striate than 



in the others. (Specimens from St. Lucia) Macropiithalma. 



aa. Scales less firm and little adherent, so that many of them are lost in ordinary 

 museum or market specimens; each scale with about four wavy vertical 

 strke on its free edge ; ventral scutes, 15+10 ; body rather elongate, the ven- 

 tral outline little convex, forming a weak arch; depth of body, 3^ to 3£ in 

 length (4^ with caudal) ; head, 3^ in leifgth, lf in depth of body; eye very 

 large, one- third longer than snout, 2\ in head; insertion of ventrals nearly 

 midway between snout and base of caudal; color pale; no dark humeral 

 spot ; caudal pale. (Specimens from Key West and Havana) Clupeola. 



The following seems to be the synonymy of the species, most of the 

 earlier descriptions being so loosely drawn as to be more or less uncer- 

 tain. The nomenclature is therefore throughout only provisional. 



HARENGULA ARCUATA. 



Sardina Escamuda. 



tfilupea arcuala Jenyns, Ichth. Voy. Beagle, 1842, 134. (Bahia Blanca). 



Harengula humeralis Cuv. & Val., xx, 293, 1847. (Guadaloupe.) 



Clupea humeralis Giinther, vn, 422. (Bahia, Jamaica, Trinidad, Dominica, Barba- 



does.) 

 Alosa striata Cuv. & Val., xx, 429. (Guadaloupe.) 

 Harengula (?) clupeola Poey. Enuineratio, etc. (Havana.) 

 Clupea clupeola Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 33. (Havana.) 

 Harengula pmsacolw,* Goode and Bean. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 152. (Peu- 



sacola. ) 

 Clupea pensacohv Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 107. (Key West.) 



HARENGULA MACROPIITHALMA. 



? Clupea macropiithalma Ranzani, "Nov. Com. Ac. Sc. Inst. Bonon., v, 1842, 320, 

 tab. 23" (fide Giinther): Giinther, VII, 421. (Cuba, St. Croix, Jamaica, 

 Barbadoes.) 

 ? Harengula maculosa Cuv. & Val., xx, 292, 1847. (Martinique.) 

 Harengula jaguana Poey, Repertorio, 1, 190, I860. (Jagua, near Cienfuegos. ) 



* Specimens from Florida seem to average a little deeper in body than those from 

 Cuba. This difference becomes, however, inappreciable on the examination of large 

 numbers of specimeus. 



