Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2811 



than that of dorsal, or equal to length of pectoral. Gill rakers 68, the 

 longest about equal to length of snout. Peritoneum pale. Color as in 

 Alosa sapidissima; the caudal, dorsal, and pectoral lins rather darker 

 tipped. The male differs from the female only in being somewhat more 

 slender. This species differs from Alosa sapldissima chieily in the fewer 

 gill rakers, its "sharper, more pointed snout, smaller notch in upper jaw, 

 more projecting mandible, and more slender maxillary. It seems to reach 

 maturity at a much smaller size than the common shad. Streams tribu- 

 tary to the Gulf of Mexico ; known from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Pen- 

 sacola, Florida. 



Alosa alabamctf, JORDAN & EVERMANN, in EVEHMANN, Kept. U. S. Fish Coinm. 1895 (Dec. 

 28, 1896), 203, Black Warrior River, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Type, Nos. 47689 and 

 47690. Coll. T. H. Fitts) ; EVERMANN & KENDALL, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1897, 127, 

 pi. 7, figs. 5 and 6. 



According to Ogilby, Kowala is a genus distinct from Sardinella. 



Page 436. Ilisha panamensis is not separable from /. furthi. The lat- 

 ter name has priority. 



Page 437. Opisthopterus lutipinnis is very abundant on the outer sand 

 beaches about Mazatlan. 



Page 445. Species 728, Stolephorus poeyi, is a species of Lycenyraulis, 

 and should stand as 



743(a). LYCENGBAUL1S POEYI (Kner & Steindachner) . 



Numerous specimens lately taken by Dr. Gilbert at Panama. A large 

 species used as food. The teeth are unequal in Lycengraulis, but none of 

 them can be properly described as canine-like. 



Page 447. After Stolephorus lucidus add: 



732(a). STOLEPHOKUS RASTRALIS, Gilbert & Pierson, new species. 



Head 3.16 (3.1 to 3.3) ; depth 3.8 (3.5 to 4.2) ; eye 3.4 in head (3.33 to 4). 

 D. 14 (12 to 15); A. 26 to 32. Body much compressed and deep; belly 

 sharply keeled in front of veutrals ; dorsal outline much less curved than 

 ventral, the lower profile rising very rapidly from a point opposite middle 

 of pectorals to tip of snout, in shape of head thus closely resembling the 

 species of CetenyrauUs. Maxillary reaching almost but not quite to gill 

 opening ; snout high, compressed, its length ^ to f diameter of eye. Gill 

 rakers averaging in larger examples 51 -f- 64, in smaller specimens 44 + 50; 

 the largest about as long as eye. Insertion of dorsal fin variable, but 

 never posterior to a point midway between base of caudal and middle of 

 eye; pectoral fins reaching to or nearly to insertion of ventrals, the latter 

 not to vent. Color olivaceous, the lower part of side with violet reflec- 

 tions ; sides of head silvery ; a conspicuous silvery lateral band varying in 

 width from about 1 times length of orbit in the largest examples to less 

 than orbit in the smaller specimens ; the band is widest before dorsal, 

 tapering to $ or less than its greatest width on caudal peduncle, where 

 it frequently disappears in the young. In larger specimens the ventral 

 edge of this baud is frequently ill-defined anteriorly; top of head with 



