BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S. 373 



There is much that is curious about the migrations of this fish. 

 All the shoals which pass here in winter are going north, the 

 shoals visiting Otago in summer are moving south. Are they 

 the same fishes returning to their homes in the Antartic Seas 

 after months of travel in search of spawning grounds ? If so, 

 how far north do they go ? and where are their breeding grounds ? 



The species appears to be unknown in the warm seas of the 

 north of Australia. Dr. Bleeker makes no mention of it in his 

 elaborate works on the Fishes of the East Indian Archipelago ; 

 Dr. Cantor does not mention it in his " Fishes of Malacca," and 

 I never came across a specimen of it during my fishing excursion 

 in the " Chevert " along the North-Eastern Coast of Australia, 

 Torres Straits, and the South Coast of New Guinea. It must be 

 born in mind however, that it is found in California, Japan, and 

 other temperate regions north of the Equator, so that it is not by 

 any means certain that it may not penetrate into the tropical 

 regions of the Pacific. But, if so, it is most probable that the 

 course taken is outside the great Barrier Eeef . 



7. Clttpea sundaica. Bleek. 



Atlas Ichthyol. Clup., p. 105, PI. 271, fig. 5. 



Glupea fimbriata, Bleek., not of Valenciennes. 



The following is a translation of Dr. Bleeker's description of 

 this Fish : — 



" Body, oblong, compressed ; height, 3 to 3£ times in the length 

 without, and 3f to 4 and one-fifth with, the caudal fin ; the width 

 of the body 2% to 3 in its height ; head, 4 to 4£ in the length 

 of the body without the caudal fin, and 5 to 5\ with it, 

 considerably shorter than the height of the body, as high as its 

 length, and its width 2 to 2£ in its length ; on each side of the 

 vertex a number of somewhat diverging striae extending 

 backwards ; the diameter of the eyes 3 to 3£ in the length of 

 the head, and from two-thirds to three-fifths of their diameter 



