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697. SABDINELLA BISHOPI (Miiller & Troschel). 



Allied to Sardinella apicalis, but with a black spot behind operculum 

 and no black on dorsal ; sides with faint dark streaks ; eye large, half 

 height of head ; 11 rows of scales on each side. Barbadoes. (Miiller & 

 Troschel.) A doubtful species, of uncertain relations. (A personal 

 name.) 



Alosa bishopi, MULLER & TROSCHEL, in Schomburgk's Hist. Barbadoes, 675, 1848, Barbadoes. 

 Subgenus HARENGULA, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 k 698. SARDINELLA SABDINA (Poey). 

 (SARDINA DE LEY.) 



Head 3}- ; depth 3i to 3f D. 15 ; A. 18 ; scales 36 ; scutes 15 + 10. Head 

 l^o in depth of body. Eye very large, $ longer than snout, 2| in head. 

 Body rather elongate, the ventral outline little convex, forming a weak 

 arch. Scales less firm and less adherent than in other species of Haren- 

 gula, many of them lost in museum or market specimens ; each scale with 

 four vertical wavy strise on its free edge. Insertion of dorsal nearly 

 midway between snout and base of caudal. Color pale; no black 

 humeral spot ; trunk with longitudinal streaks ; an orange area behind 

 opercle in life ; tips of dorsal and anal dusky. Length 8 inches. West 

 Indian fauna; abundant: north to Key West. (Sardina, sardine.) 



Harengula sardina, POEY, Memorias, n, 310, I860, Cuba. 



Harengula callolepis, GOODK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 152, Bermuda. 



Harengula clupeola, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, 646; not of CUVIER & VALENCIENNES. 



699. SABDINELLA MACBOPHTHALMUS (Eanzani). 



Head3f; depth 3|; eye 2$. D. 17; A. 18; scales 40-12; vertebras 40. 

 Body moderately elongate, the ventral outline little convex, forming a 

 weak arch ; length of head 1 to lj in depth of body ; eye large, | longer 

 than snout; insertion of ventrals nearly midway between snout and base 

 of caudal. Bluish above, sides silvery ; dark humeral spot usually evi- 

 dent, sometimes wanting ; above this a dark line extends, bounding the 

 dark of the back, above this a pale streak ; caudal dusky. Scales less 

 striate than in S. humeralis. West Indies, Cuba to Brazil ; not very com- 

 mon. (/mKpof, large ; oftfa/l/zof, eye.) 



Clupea macrophthalma, KANZANI, Nov. Comm. Ac. Sci. Bonon., v, 320, 1842, Brazil; GUNTHER, 



Cat., vii, 421, 1868. 



Harengula maculosa, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xx, 292, 1847, Martinique. 

 Harengula jaguana, POEY, Repertorio, 1,190, 1866, Jagua, Cuba, near Cienfuegos. 

 Harengula macrophthalma, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, 646. 



700. SABDINELLA THBISSINA (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Head 4; depth 3; eye 3. D. 15; A. 13; scales 40-10. Scutes 16 + 13. 

 Body deep, but less so than in S. humeralis. Head large, rather blunt; 

 mouth moderate, the lower jaw projecting, the upper jaw scarcely eniar- 

 ginate ; maxillary 2 in head, reaching past front of pupil. Both jaws 

 with small teeth ; teeth on palatines, pterygoids, and tongue. Eye 

 large. Cheeks and opercles with fine but distinct branching striae. Gill 



