Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 447 



Scales rather adherent. Translucent, with black dots on body and fins; 

 some yellow shades ; sides with a rather diffuse silvery baud, narrowed 

 behind and expanding on base of caudal. Length 5 inches. Mazatlau; 

 locally abundant, (lucidus, bright.) 



Stolt'2>liru* /((.i./iix, JORDAN* & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 341, Mazatlan. (Type, No. 

 28121. Coll. Gilbert.) 



733. STOLEPHORUS CLUPEOIDES (Swainson). 



Head 3 to 3 ; depth 3 ; eye 3|. D. 14 ; A. 25 to 30 ; scales 40-8. 

 Snout much projecting, blunt, short, about 2 in eye ; maxillary obliquely 

 truncate, ending in a point, just before joint of mandible. Teeth very 

 small, in both jaws; gill rakers very fine, setiform, longer than eye; 

 abdomen trenchant, but without conspicuous spines. Insertion of dorsal 

 a little behind middle of body ; insertion of anal before middle of dorsal. 

 Silvery ; lateral band broad, not very distinct. Size very large, length 

 about a foot. Coast of Guiana and southward; common, ascending 

 streams. (Steindachner: Guuther.) (Clupea sprattus, the Sprat; eldoc, 

 likeness.) , 



fEnyraulisdupeoides, SWAINSON, Nat. Hist. Fishes, u, 388, 1839, Pernambuco. 

 Stolephona surinamensis, BLKEKER, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk., 1866, 178, Surinam. 

 Engrauliif xnrhntmeitxi*, GUNTHER, Cat., vn, 393, 1868 ; A. 25 or 26 ; STEINDACHNER, Ich. Beitr., 

 vin, 55, 1875; A. 30. 



734. STOLEPHORUS PRODUCTUS (Poey). 

 (HECHUDO; GRUBBER BROAD-HEAD.) 



Head3f; depth 3|. D. 13; A. 32; scales 40. Body deep, much com- 

 pressed; belly compressed, not serrate; maxillary tapering behind, nearly 

 reaching gill opening; snout pointed, much projecting beyond lower jaw; 

 teeth very small, in upper jaw only. Dorsal midway between tip of snout 

 and base of caudal. Scales caducous. Greenish, silvery on sides, without 

 distinct lateral band. Cuba and Jamaica. (Poey; Gunther.) Possibly 

 not distinct from Stolephorus clupeoides. (productus, lengthened. ) 

 Engraulu productus, POEY, Repertorio, 380, 1866, Cuba ; Gunther, Cat., vn, 388, 1868. 



735. STOLEPHORUS COMPRESSUS (Girard). 



Head 4|; depth 3f. D. 12; A. 31; scales 40. Body strongly com- 

 pressed, deeper than in most other species ; head short, nearly as deep 

 as long ; eye large, anterior, much longer than the blunt snout, which 

 does not project much beyond the lower jaw. Gill rakers numerous, 

 slender, nearly as long as the eye. Maxillary reaching beyond the root 

 of the mandible. Lower lobe of caudal the longer; anal fin very long; 

 dorsal inserted midway between caudal and front of eye; pectoral with 

 a basal sheath. Very pale olivaceous, translucent ; a silvery lateral 

 band as broad as the eye. Flesh thin and dry, the bones firmer than in 

 Engraulis mordax. Length 6 inches. Point Concepcion to Lower Cali- 

 fornia, abundant about San Diego, (compressus, compressed.) 

 Engraulis compressus, GIRARD, Pac. R. E. Surv., x, 336, 1858, San Diego. (Coll. A. Cassidy); 



GUNTHER, Cat., vu, 395, 1868. 

 Stolephorus compressus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 274, 1883. 



