70 



Clupea thrissa, Linn£, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1, 1758, 318; ed. 12, 1, 1750, 524; 



Gmelin, Linn6, Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 1405 (part). — Beoussonet, Ichth. 1, tab. 



X. — ?Bloch, Ichth. xii, 1797, 27, taf. cccciv (from a drawing by Plumier). — 



Schneider, Bloch, Syst. Ichth. ed. 1801, 424. — Gunthek, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 



Yii, 18G8, 432. 

 Meletta thrissa, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. xx, 1847, 380. 

 Oj)isthonema thrissa, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 37 ; Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. 



Am. 1861, 54 ; and in Baird's Rep. on Sea Fisheries of S. New England, 1873, 



811. 

 Opisthonemus tlirissa, Poey, Rep. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1886, 419. 

 Clupanodon thrissoides, Spix, Mull., &. Teosch., Schomburgk's Hist. Barbados, 1848, 



676. 

 Megalops thrissoides, Agassiz, in Spix's Selecta Gen. et Spec. Pise. Brazil, 1829, 45, pi. 



xxii. 

 Megalops oglina, Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1, 1817, 359. 

 Chatoessus oglina, Griffith, Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, s, 1835, 439. — DeKay, New 



York Fauna, Fishes, 1842, 265.— Storer, Syn. Fish. N. Am. 1846, 209. 

 Chatoessus signifer, DeKay, op. cit. 264, pi. xli, f. 132. — Storer, op. cit. 210. — Baird, 



Fishes of New Jersey Coast, 1855, 35. — Jones, Naturalist in Bermuda, 103. 

 Chatoessus eumorphus, GossE, Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica, 1851, 290 (notes). 



This species was taken in great numbers during the month of March. 

 They occurred in schools in two distinct sizes; the smaller, perhaps the 

 young of the previous year, measured four inches on an average ; the 

 adults, ten. The species is common in the West Indies, and has been 

 taken as far north as ^Newfoundland. 



EI^GEAULIDID^. 



ENGEAULIS CHGEROSTOMUS, Goode. 

 HoG-MouTH Fry. 



Engraulis chcerostomus, Goode, Amer. Journ. Science and Arts, viii, 1874 (Aug.), 125. 



Common in the bays in large schools; used estensively for bait. Its 

 enormous mouth has given it the name of " hog-mouth fry." 



This species closely resembles Engraulis surinamensis (Blkr.) Giinther» 

 differing from it, however, in several respects. The height of the body 

 (0.10) is a little greater than two-thirds of the length of the head, and 

 is contained six times in the total length, and slightly more than four 

 times in the length to the end of middle caudal rays (0.90); the height 

 at the ventrals is less (0.13). The scales are large, in thirty-eight 

 oblique rows between the head and the caudal. The length of the 

 head (0.22) is less than one-fourth of the total, and is double its height 

 at the pupil (0.11) ; its greatest width (0.08) is about one- third of its 



