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median line, varying* from plumbeous-dusky to rather deep tints 

 of the latter in certain places, though noticeably on predorsal 

 region and base of caudal peduncle above. Varying slaty tints 

 also extend out on caudal, edge of lower lobe of which is whitish. 

 Top of head transparent with hyaline tints. End of snout and 

 tip of mandible dusky. A blackish bar obliquely back from above 

 eye posteriorly. Side of head and body silvery-white, former 

 and all of latter medianly overshot with dull brassy. Occiput 

 with a dash of blackish and a large blackish blotch on shoulder 

 just behind gill-opening above. Iris silvery, with blackish above. 

 Dorsal fin greenish-olive, margin above blackish, narrow anterior 

 margin slaty and filament same color. Each caudal lobe with s 

 tinge of greenish-olive medianly, and each tip shading into black- 

 ish marginally, caudal otherwise more or less grayish. Anal, pec- 

 toral and A'entral transparent white. Serratures whitish. Adi- 

 pose eyelid transparent. 



Occasionally along our coast. Easily distinguished from our 

 other species by the long posterior dorsal ray. The above de- 

 scribed example was obtained by ]\Ir. Wm. J. Fox. 



Opisthonema oglinum Bean, Buh. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 

 149. from Baird. — Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 359. 



Chatcessus signifer Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, 



P- 349. 



Clupanodon thrissa Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 821. 



Genus Brevoortia Gill. 

 The Menhadens. 



Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe). 



Plate 6. 



Menhaden. Bunker. Mossbunker. Bony Fish. 



American Club Fish. Shadine. Ocean Trout. Hard Head. 



Mossbanker. Banker. 



Head 3; depth 2j4\ D. 11, 17; A. 11, 17; scales about 52 to 

 base of caudal, many more crowded on latter ; abdominal scutes. 



