of the Subfamily Clupeinee. 9 
4, Alosa alabame, Jord. & Hverm. 
Alosa alabame, Jord. & Everm. Rep. U.S. Fish. Comm. 1895, p. 203 ; 
Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. xlvii. 1898, p. 2810, figs. 192, 192 a. 
Differs from the preceding only in the fewer gill-rakers, 
less than 50 on lower part of anterior arch. 
Alabama River and Pensacola, Florida. 
4a. Alosa alabame ohiensis, Everm. 
Silt Evyermann, Rep. U.S. Fish. Comm. 1901, p. 277, figs. 1,2 
(1902). 
More slender than typical A. alabame, the depth 3} to 43 
in the length. 43 to 49 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior 
arch. 
Total length 350-450 mm. 
Mississippi. 
5. Alosa finta, Cuv. 
Clupea finta (part.), Cuv. Régne Anim. ed. 2, ii. p, 320 (1829) ; 
Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 485 (1868); Day, Fish. Britain, p. 236, 
pl. exli. (1884). 
Alosa finta (part.), Moreau, Poiss. de France, iii. p. 456 (1881). 
Depth of body 3? to 44 in the length, length of head 32 
to 44. 24 to 27 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. 
Dorsal 16 to 20. Anal 19 to 23. 55 to 65 scales in a longi- 
tudinal, 16 to 20 in a transverse series. Ventral scutes 20 to 
23418 to 16. 
Atlantic coast of Hurope. 
Several specimens from Britain and Portugal, up to 
380 mm. in total length. 
5a. Alosa finta killarnensis, subsp. n. 
Depth of body 3 in the length, length of head 4. 38 gill- 
rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal 17 to 19. 
Anal 19 to 21. 55 to 60 scales in a longitudinal, 17 to 19 
in a transverse series. Ventral scutes 21 to 22415 to 16. 
Silvery ; back purplish ; a dark humeral spot; a lateral 
series of about seven vertically expanded dark spots running 
from behind operculum towards posterior end of anal fin. Z 
Killarney. 
A specimen of 210 mm. taken in January 1912. Two 
smaller examples, 155 mm. long, taken in November 1875 
have the depth of the body 3} in its length and 30 gill-rakers 
on the lower part of the auterior arch. 
