BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S. 377 



specimens in the Sydney Market, and also one specimen from 

 Brisbane. It seems, however, to be very different in its deep 

 and compressed form from the species to which Dr. Bleeker gives 

 that name. 



The Count's description is as follows : — 



" The body is very compressed; height contained twice and 

 one-third in the total length, without the caudal ; head, three 

 times and a half in the same ; the lower jaw is larger than 

 the upper one, and when the mouth is shut the opening is 

 upwards ; snout very short ; maxillary very large, and extending 

 further than the anterior margin of the eye ; this is large, and 

 only contained twice and a half in the length of the head ; 

 dorsal, with seventeen rays ; caudal, very forked ; anal, low, 

 with eighteen rays, the ventrals are inserted a little behind the 

 pectorals ; mouth, very extensible ; tongue smooth ; the 

 serrature of the belly extends higher than the pectorals ; of a 

 beautiful azurine blue on the back, the rest very silvery ; head, 

 gilt ; fins, of a light yellow ; the dorsal with its extremity, and 

 a faint transverse band, black, seen in the sun there seems to be 

 a longitudinal white stripe on the body between the blue and 

 silvery/' 



The proportions of the eye to the head given above would 

 lead me to believe that this is the Clupea Kunzei of Dr. Bleeker, 

 a species which Dr. Gunther does not recognise as distinct 

 from Moluccensis, but which Dr. Bleeker himself regards and 

 describes as very different. The great height of the body, 

 however, given by Count Castlenau — 2^ in the total length 

 exclusive of the caudal fin, — precludes the possibility of its 

 being Kunzei. 



I have been unable to get information of any kind as to this fish. 

 10. Cltjpea Tembang. Bleek. 

 Atlas Ichthyol. Clup. p. 106, PI. 266, fig. 6. 

 Clupea giblosa of the same author. 



