64 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1897. 



Clupea reevesii (Richardson). 



Alosa reevesii Richardson, Ich. China, 305 (Gunther). 

 Clupea reevesii, Giinther, Cat., VII, 446, 1868. 



Recorded by Sauvage. I do not know to what genus this is to be 

 referred — certainly neither to Alosa nor to Clupea. 



Pristigaster sinensis Sauvage. 



Described by Sauvage from Swatow. 



ENGRATJLIDIDJE. 



Stolephorus japonicus (Houttuyn). 



Atherina japonica Houttuyn, Verh. Holl. Maatsch. Wet. Haarl., XX, 2, 

 1789, p. 340 ( Gunther). 



Engraulis japonica, Gunther, Cat. Fishes, VII, 390, 1867. 



Six specimens, about 4 inches long. 



Head 4^, depth 5, eye 3 ; scales about 38 ; D. 13 to 15 ; A. 19 

 to 22. 



Abdomen not compressed, but with six weak, spine-bearing scutes 

 in front of ventrals ; origin of dorsal nearer caudal than snout, origin 

 of anal below middle of dorsal ; teeth in both jaws minute but equal 

 in size; snout rather blunt, not much projecting, maxillary nearly 

 to gill opening, scales entirely deciduous. A narrow silvery lateral 

 band. 



Stolephorus kammalensis (Bleeker). 



Engraulis kammalensis Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., XXII, 13. 

 Engraulis rhino rhynchus, Gunther, Cat., VII, 394, 1868. 



Recorded by Sauvage. 



Genus TRICHOSOMA Swainson. 



Thrissa Gray, Ind. Zool., 1830-4 (hamiltonii) ; preoccupied by Rafinesque, 

 who substituted this name for Clupanodon, Analyse de la Nature, 1815, 88. 



Trichosoma Swainson, Natural Hist. Fishes, Amph. and Rep., II, 292, 1839 

 (hamiltonii). 



Thryssa Richardson, Ichthyology of China, 309, 1845- 



This genus may be defined as follows : Abdomen much com- 

 pressed, provided with spine-bearing scutes, which usually extend 

 forward to the gill opening ; maxillary produced, usually extending 

 beyond the gill opening; gill-rakers rather wide set, 12 to 20 on 

 lower arm of outer gill arch ; teeth well developed in both jaws, two 

 oval patches each on vomer and palatines, those of the vomer some- 

 what enlarged ; minute teeth on gill arches and pterygoids, and some- 

 times on the hyal bones ; body rather deep (depth 31 in length, E. 

 mystacoides), pectorals reaching past middle of ventrals ; ridge on 

 top of head somewhat elevated, forming two sloping sides which meet 



