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is recorded from the Gulf of Mexico, Demerara, Trinidad, Guadaloupe, 

 Santo Domingo, Porto Eico, Martinique, and Cuba. 



The species is very abundant on the eastern coast of Florida and in 

 the Saint John's Eiver, where it is known as the Jew-fish. Several 

 specimens were taken on the southern coast of New England and New 

 York in 1874. 



The name is inexplicable, but may have some connection with the 

 name " Caffum ", which is given to the same fish in Barbados. 



CLUPEID^. 



SAEDINELLA ANOHOYIA, Valenciennes. 

 Anchovy. 



Sardinella anchovia, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Pois. xx, 1847, 269. 

 Clupea anchovia, Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. vii, 1868, 421. 



I refer with some doubt to this species a small fish which occurred 

 in great schools during the month of March, and were seined together 

 with Decapterus punctatus, and sold in quantities along the quay. Their 

 average length was about five inches. 



HAEENGULA MACEOPHTHALMA {Ranzani). 

 Pilchard. 



Chipea maa'ophthalma, Kanzani, Novi Commentarii Acad. Scient. Inst. Bononiensis, v, 

 1842, 320, tab. xxiii.— GGnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. vii, 1868, 421.— Cope, 

 Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Phila. 1870, 483. 



Harengula sardina, Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1863, 310; Eep. Fis.-Nat. ii, Cuba. 

 1868, 418. 



Common ; also recorded from various islands in the West Indies. 

 Great quantities were seined during the month of March, and sold from 

 row-boats at the water's edge. Their average length was nine inches. 

 Poey's Harengula sardina appears to be the same. The name is derived 

 from England, where an allied species, Clupea pilehardus, Walbaum, is 

 commonly known as ''the Pilchard". 



OPISTHONEMA THEISSA, (Linne) Gill. 



Herring. 



Clupea minor, radio ultimo pinnw dorsalis longissimo. Brown, Civ. and Nat. Hist. Jamaica, 



1756, 443. 

 f Clupea corpore ovaio, LinnIS, Amcen. Acad, v, 251. 



