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front edge of preopercle and not to joint of mandible. Inter- 

 orbital space equal to eye; gill rakers numerous, about as long 

 as the eye; teeth minute and weak, nearly uniform in size. Dor- 

 sal origin about midway between tip of snout and base of 

 caudal, dorsal base short, scarcely more than one half as long 

 as head, and about equal to longest dorsal ray; ventrals little 

 in advance of dorsal origin, very short, only two fifths of length 

 of head; pectoral moderate, equal to postorbital part of head. 

 Axillary scale very slender, less than one half as long as the 

 head. Width of silvery band about equal to length of eye. 

 D. ii, 12; A. i, 15 to 16. Scales 44 to 45. Here described from 

 specimens obtained at Noank Ct. and in Gravesend bay, L. I., 

 the largest about 3 inches long. 



Upper parts light brown, sides silvery; dark punctulations on 

 base of caudal and sometimes on anal; belly even in alcoholic 

 specimens with iridescent colors. 



The example obtained in Gtavesend bay was collected by W. 1. 

 De Nyse. It has D. 12; A. 15 or 16; scales 45. 



The close resemblance of this species toS. argyrophanus 

 Cuv. & Val. makes a farther comparison of the two necessary. 

 Perhaps, as long ago suggested by Dr Gunther,i the two are 

 identical. S. argyrophanus was collected in the equator- 

 ial Atlantic, and Poey's species, perfasciatus, is from 

 Cuba and Porto Rico. There seems to be little to distinguish 

 them except the slightly greater number of anal rays in S. 

 argyrophanus, and these have been counted differently 

 by different students; the authors, for example, discovered 17, 

 while Dr Jordan found 19 in the same type. 



122 Stolephorus mitchilli (Cuv. & Val.) 



Anchovy; Whitebait 



EngrauUs mitcJUlU Ouvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XXI, 50, 



1848. New York; Oarolina; New Orleans. 

 Stolephorus mitchilli Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 248, 



1883; Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A. 38, 1885 (name only); Bean, Bull. U. S. 



F. C. VII, 149, 1888; 52d Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 97, 1900; Jordan 



& EvERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 446, 1896; Smith, Bull. U. S. 



F. 0. XVII, 92, 1898. 



^Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 1868. 7:391. 



