442 ORDER MALACOPTERYG1I ABDOM1NALES. 



is a smaller species of the Mediterranean, with a pro- 

 file less convex. 



America possesses several remarkable species, one 

 of which is without any teeth. Engr. edentulus, Cuv., 

 Sloane, Jam. II. pi. ccl. f. 2 \ 



Others have, like the true herrings, the body com- 

 pressed, and the belly trenchant and dentated 2 . 



Thryssa, Cuv., 



Differ from the anchovies with dentated belly only 

 in the great prolongation of their maxillaries. None 

 are known except from the East Indies 3 . 



Megalops, Lacep., 



Have the jaws formed like the herrings, properly so 

 called, which they resemble also in the general figure 

 and the disposition of the fins ; but their belly is not 

 trenchant, nor their body compressed ; some close 

 and even teeth furnish their jaws and palatine bones. 

 They have a much greater number of rays to the 

 gills (from twenty-two to twenty-four) ; and the last 



1 Add Engr. lemniscatus, C. ; or P/quitinga, Marcgr. 159. Spix 

 xxiii. Stolephore Commersonien, Lacep. V. xii. 1 ; or Natoo, Rus. 

 187. probably the Atherina Australis, White, p. 196. f. 1. Clupee 

 tuberculeuse, Lacep. V. p. 460. N.B. His Clupee raie d'argentdoes 

 not differ from his Stolephore. 



2 Clupea atherino'ides, Bl. Chip, telara, Buch. II. 72. Cl.phasa, 

 Id. p. 240. Poorwa, Russel, 194. 



3 Clupea setirostris, Broussonet dec. Icht. copied Encycl. 316. 

 CI. mystus, or Pedda poorawah, Russel, 190. CI. mystax, BL, 

 Schn. 83. Poorawah, Russel, 189. 



