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61. Harengula gibbosa (Bleeker). Fiji (Giinther) ; East Indies. 



62. Harengula chrysotsenia (Bleeker). Tahiti; East Indies. 



63. Hareng-ula vanicoris Jordan & Seale, new name. Vanicolo; Papua; East Indies. 



Alausa melanura Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., Ml, 1847, Vanicolo, New Guinea. Amboina; not C'tupea melanura 

 Cuvier. 



Family DOROSOMATIDiE. 



ANODONTOSTOMA Bleeker. 

 Last ray of dorsal not produced. 



64. Anodontostoma breviceps (Peters). Bismarck Is.; New Hanover; East Indies. 



Chaturssus breviceps Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876, 8>1.S, New Hanover, Bismarck Is., Amboina. 



65. Anodontostoma chacunda (Hamilton-Buchanan). New Guinea ( Macleay); East Indies. 



KONOSIRUS Jordan & Snyder. 

 Last ray of dorsal filamentous, as in Dorosoma. 



66. Konosirus thrissa (Linn;eus). New Guinea; Kast Indies; China. 



Ctiatoessus nasus (Blocb) Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Family ENGRAULIDjE. 

 ANCHOVIA Jordan & Evermann. 



67. Anchovia purpurea (Fowler). Hawaii. 



68. Anchovia apiensis Jordan & Seale, new species. Nefu. Samoa. 



Head 4.50 in body (to base of caudal); depth.5; eye 3.20 in head; snout 4.50; interorbital scarcely 

 equal to eye; dorsal i, 13; anal i, 20; scales 34; maxillary elongate, 5 in length of head. 



Fig. 3. — Anchovia apiensis Jordan & Seale, new species. Type. 



Body oblong, compressed; snout produced, conical; mandible 1.45 in head; maxillary extend- 

 ing to posterior angle of preopercle; minute teeth in jaws, palatines, vomer, and pterygoids; gill- 

 rakers 1.20 in eye, 30 on lower limb; insertion of dorsal nearer base of caudal than tip of snout by 

 a distance equal to width of eye, its longest ray 1.20 in head; length of pectoral less than depth of 

 body, 1.75 in head; insertion of ventrals equally distant between origin of pectorals and origin of anal; 

 origin of anal under posterior third of dorsal, its base equal to distance from anterior margin of eye to 

 posterior margin of opercle; caudal forked, its lobes equal to length of head; caudal peduncle rather 

 deep, 2.20 in head; scales deciduous, the middle row of belly with spines. 



Color in spirits white, the scales with silvery relied ions, more or less punctulate with minute black 

 dots on upper surface; cheeks and iris with gill reflections; a dusky blotch on upper part of orbit, and 

 on nuchal region; slight dusky shading along base of dorsal, anal, and upper base of caudal; caudal with 

 a slight wash of dusky; other (ins white. Life colors while, pale olive on back; a silvery lateral band. 



Type no. 51720, T*. K. National Museum, from Apia; length 3 inches. <H' this small species, we 

 have about a dozen fine specimens from the shores inside the reef at Apia. 



