380 ON THE CLTJPEID^ OF AUSTRALIA, 



upper, mouth extensible ; no teeth on the palate ; maxillary 

 extending to below the front edge of the eye ; body compressed ; 

 forty-six scales on the longitudinal line ; sixteen rays to the 

 dorsal ; twenty to the anal ; the caudal has nineteen rays with 

 five short ones on each side ; the pectoral fourteen rays. The 

 height of the first ray of the dorsal is equal to the distance from 

 the end of the snout to the anterior (? posterior) edge of the eye ; 

 the other rays go on decreasing as they extend backwards, and 

 the last are only half the height of the first ; the caudal is very 

 strongly bifurcated, being twice as long on its sides, as at its 

 centre ; the ventrals are as long as the dorsal, and a little shorter 

 than the pectorals. The general colour is of a light green, with 

 a broad well-marked silvery streak on each side ; the belly is 

 white ; the operculum and throat are silvery and iridescent ; the 

 dorsal and caudal are yellow, and the other fins translucent ; the 

 eye silvery." 



This fish, the Count tells us is at times abundant in the 

 Melbourne Market, it is about four inches long, and is known as 

 " The Smelt" It is probably entirely a fresh-water species. 



13. Cltjpea Richmondia, n. sp. 



I give this name to a species abundant in the Richmond River 

 and believed by Count Castelnau to be identical with G. JVovce- 

 Hollan&ice. It is however, evidently, a distinct species, agreeing 

 with Novce-Hollandice in the number of the fin rays, but very 

 conspicuously different in having a very broad silvery stripe on 

 the sides, margined above and below by a dark stripe. In size 

 too it is inferior. 



14. Clupea Schlegelii, Castelnau. 



Meletta Schlegelii, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. and Acclim. Soc, Victoria 

 Vol. 2, p. 93. 



Height of body three times and one third in the length without 

 the caudal, or a little over three times and a half to the central 



