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maxillary narrow, little movable, usually formed of three 

 pieces, extending backward far behind the eye, to the base of the 

 mandible, or beyond, not beyond gill oi)ening; premaxillaries^ 

 very small; teeth small, subequal, present at all ages, usually 

 on the jaws, vomer, palatines, and pterygoids. Anal fin moder- 

 ate, free from caudal (its rays 12 to 40); no pectoral filaments;, 

 dorsal inserted about midway of body, posterior to ventrals; 

 pectorals and ventrals each with a large axillary scale. Adi- 

 pose eyelid obsolete. Vertebrae about 40 (40 to 42) in species 

 examined. Fleeh rather pale and dry, more or less translucent, 

 the bones firm. Pseudobranchiae present; branchiostegals nine 

 to 14; gill rakers long and slender; gill membranes separate, free- 

 from the narrow isthmus. 



119 Stolephorus brownii (Gmelin) 



iStriped Anohovy 



Atherina hrownii Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1397, 1788. 



Clupea vittata Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 456, 1815; De Kay, 



N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 254, 1842. 

 Engraulis vittata Baied, 9th Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst. 347, 1855. 

 EngrauUs 'brownii Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VII, 389, 1868. 

 Stolephorus browni Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 273, 1883; 



Bean, Bull. U. S. F. 0. VII, 149, 1888; 19th Rep. Oomm. Fish. N. Y. 



279, 1890. 

 Stolephorus brownii Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 443, 



1896; Smith, Bull. U. S. F. 0. XVII, 92, 1898; Bean, 52d Ann. Rep't 



N. Y. State Mus. 97, 1900l 



Body moderately elongate, compressed, but thicker than in 

 S. m i t c h i 1 1 i, its greatest depth two ninths of the total 

 length without caudal, and equal to length of head without the 

 snout, the thickness one half length of head ; head moderate, its 

 length rather more than one fourth of total without caudal, the 

 snout short and obtusely pointed, one fifth of length of head, 

 two thirds of length of eye; eye equal to width of inter orbital 

 space, about two sevenths as long as the head. The maxilla 

 reaches as far back as the mandible, but not to hind edge of 

 opercle. The mandible is partly covered by the maxilla, its tip- 

 in advance of the front of eye and overhung by the snout. Teeth 

 moderately strong, those on the posterior part of the maxilla. 



