376 ON THE CLUPEIDiE OF AUSTRALIA, 



D. 18, A. 20,. L. lat. 44, L. transv. 12. 



"The length, of the head is contained four times and one - 

 fourth in the total (without caudal), the height of the body 

 twice and three-fourths ; head nearly as deep as long ; scales 

 regularly arranged, firm, adherent, with the margins serrated 

 and irregularly crenulated ; abdominal and dorsal profiles 

 equally convex; lower jaw slightly projecting beyond the upper ; 

 snout short, maxillary extending nearly to below the middle of the 

 orbit. A narrow strip of teeth on the palatine and pterygoid 

 bones, none on the verner ; tongue with a median longitudinal 

 toothed ridge. Opercles smooth. Gill rakers very fine and 

 closely set, a little shorter than the eye. Eye as long as the 

 snout, contained thrice and one-third in the length of the head. 

 Ventral fin inserted below the posterior half of the dorsal fin, 

 which occupies the middle of the distance between the end of 

 the snout and the root of the caudal fin. There are thirteen 

 abdominal scutes behind the base of the ventral fin. Top of the 

 dorsal fin, a spot on the base of the anterior dorsal rays and the 

 extremity of. the caudal lobes, blackish. Amboyna." 



It is not unfrequently seen in Port Jackson, where it is known 

 to the fishermen as the " herring/' and is considered quite equal 

 in an edible point of view to the "Ma/ray." Some fishermen 

 assure me that like the last species, C. sundaica, it is seen to pass 

 the Sydney Heads in the winter season in enormous shoals, and 

 that the two species are sometimes mingled together. I may add 

 that some of the fishermen have been in the habit of looking 

 upon them as the same species. 



9. Cltjpea Moluccensis ? Bleek. 

 Atlas Ichthyol. Olup. p. 107, PI. 263, fig. 2. 



Dr. Bleeker says that this Fish is common in the seas of the 

 Moluccas and Sunda. I have never seen a specimen of it. 

 Count Castlenau describes under this name in the Proc. Linn. 

 Soc, N. S. Wales, Vol. 3, p. 395, a Fish of which he has seen 



