Jordan and Ever mann. Fishes of North America. 443 



reaching gill opening. Gill rakers numerous, longest eye. Snout long, 

 f eye, which is 3f in head. Dorsal inserted midway between base of 

 median caudal rays and front of eye; anal short; caudal shorter than 

 head; pectorals short, not nearly reaching ventrals. Scales thin, not 

 caducous. Translucent, with a sharply denned silvery stripe as in S. 

 broicnii, but narrower, confined to one series of scales ; many black specks 

 on body and fins. Length 3 inches. Mazatlan to Panama ; abundant, 

 replacing Stolephorus brownii on the west coast ; a slender species, with 

 shorter anal than S. broivnii. (lax[. a ] v j slender.) 



Slolephortts ischanm, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 340, Mazatlan. (Type, 

 No. 2824G. Coll. Gilbert.) 



723. STOLEPHORUS BROWNII (Gmelin). 

 (STRIPED ANCHOVY; MANJ^A.) 



Head 3f ; depth 4f ; eye 3|. D. 15 ; A. 20 ; scales 40. Body rather 

 elongate, compressed, not elevated ; belly compressed, serrulate. Head 

 rather short, the snout 5 in head, projecting much beyond the tip of the 

 lower jaw. Teeth pretty strong; maxillary extending beyond base of 

 mandible, but not quite reaching to the edge of the gill opening. Eye 

 large ; cheeks triangular, scarcely larger than eye. Gill rakers long, f 

 diameter of eye, but shorter than in S. compressus. Anal with a sheath 

 of scales ; dorsal inserted nearer caudal than snout. Olivaceous, trans- 

 lucent, sides silvery ; the silvery lateral band about as wide as the eye, 

 very distinct. Length 4 to 6 inches. Cape Cod to Brazil ; very abundant 

 southward, both on the Florida Coast and in the West Indies ; the most 

 abundant of the American species. (Named for Patrick Browne, author 

 of the History of Jamaica, 1756.) 



Piquitinga, MARCGRAVE, Hist. Bras., 159, 1648, Brazil. 



Menidia, BROWNE, Hist. Jamaica, 441, 1756, Jamaica. 



Atherina brownii, GMELIN, Syst. Nat., 1397, 1788, Jamaica; after BROWNE. 



Esox epselm, BONNATERHE, Tabl. Ichth., 175, 1788, Jamaica ; after BROWNE. 



Engraulis lemniscaim, CUVIER, Regne Animal, Ed. 2, n, 323, 1829, Brazil; after Piquitinga of 



MARCGRAVE. 



Engraulis tricolor, AGASSIZ, Spix, Pise. Brasil., 51, 1829, Bahia; Para. 

 Engraitlis piquitinga, AGASSIZ, Spix, Pise. Brasil., pi. 23, fig. 1, 1829; types of tricolor. 

 Argentina menidia, GRONOW, Cat., 141, 1854; after BROWNE. 

 StolepJiorus hiulciu, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 343, (depth 5%, anal rays 22), 



Clearwater Harbor, Florida. (Type, No. 23632. Coll. Dr. Velie.) 

 Engraulis broil-nil, G( ! XTIIER, Cat., vn, 389, 1868. 

 Btolephorus brovmi and Idulcus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 273, 1883. 



724. STOLEPHORUS CULTRATUS, Gilbert. 



Head 3f; depth 4&. D. 12; A. 20; scales 40. Body compressed, of 

 medium depth, the abdomen compressed to an edge both in front of and 

 behind the ventral fins, but without serrations ; behind the ventrals the 

 edge is sharply carinate. Head slender and sharp, the snout long and 

 compressed, extending beyond tip of lower jaw for a distance nearly 

 equaling diameter of orbit ; maxillary abruptly widened behind angle 

 of mouth, then tapering to a rather sharp point, which extends beyond 



