﻿FISHES— MCCULLOCH. ,^ 



the length of its base is just about equal to the distance from 

 the tip of the snout to the hinder margin of the eye and longer 

 than the anterior rays. Anal low, its length much greater than 

 that of the dorsal. Ventrals as long as half their distance 

 from the vent. 



Colour. — Silvery, the upper third of the body dark blue. 

 Scattered darker specks are found on the jaws and preorbitals 

 and on the caudal peduncle. Rays of the dorsal, caudal and 

 pectoral fins also dark spotted. 



Length of largest specimen 117 mm. Described from two 

 specimens from off the east coast of Flinders Island, Bass 

 Strait. Others are from the entrance to Storm Bay, Tas- 

 mania. 



It is only after a detailed comparison of these specimens 

 with many others of C. sprattus from the London markets that 

 I venture to regard them as distinct. They appear to differ by 

 their more elongate form, my deepest specimen, the one 

 figured, having the depth of the body less than the length of 

 the head, whereas in C. sprattus it is considerably deeper. 

 That species further seems invariably to have but seven rays 

 in the ventral tin without counting the imperfect short one in 

 front. All of C. bassensis have eight. C. antipodum, Hector, 

 is a very distinct species with a much shorter body, well 

 developed abdominal scutes, and with the ventral placed 

 below instead of just in advance of the anterior portion of the 

 dorsal. From C. sajax, Jenyns, the new species is at once 

 distinguished by the position of its ventral fin. 



In 1867 a note from Mr. J. E. Calder was published^ in 

 which he recorded an immense shoal of these Herrings being 

 driven ashore in Simmons' Cove, Bruni Island, Tasmania, by 

 Barracouta, Kingfish and others. He considered there 

 were about one hundred tons of them on the shore and fully 

 two hundred more at the bottom of the water, all dead. Carts 

 and boats were used to take them away for manure, yet they 

 were scarcely lessened in quantity. Mr. Allport also noted 

 that a similar shoal had been observed in 1844, and numbers of 

 the fish had passed far up into the Derwent River. 



Clupea (Clupanodon) neopilchardus, Steindachner. 

 Pilchard. 



Clupanodon neopilchardus, Steindachner, Denk. K. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien., xli., 1879, p. 12. 

 Three specimens from 26-30 fathoms, eight miles off 

 Wooded BlufT, Clarence River, New South Wales, are of 



1 Calder— Proc. Koy. Soc. Tasm., 1867, p. 5. 



