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dominal serrae 27 to 30 + 12 or 13. Ventral axillary flap % fin length. 

 Opercle and cheek with radiating venules. Scales with 4 or 5 trans- 

 verse marginal striae above, sometimes one or several may be complete 

 with age; circuli all transversely parallel, very fine, none apical. 



D. V, 13, I, or w, 14, I, first branched ray l%o to 2 in total head 

 length ; A. m, 13, i or m, 14, i, first branched ray 4 to ^% ; caudal 

 41^ to 41/2 in rest of body, forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 2% to 2% in total head length; pectoral 1% to 1% ; ventral 2i/8 to 21/2. 



Back brown to dusky olive above, sides and below silvery white. 

 Dorsal and caudal dusted grayish, fins otherwise whitish. 



China, Japan, Korea. Also north Pacific on coasts of North 

 America. 



U.S.N.M. No. 44889. Japan. Japanese Government. Length, 376-405 mm. 2 



examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 48192. Otaru, Japan. S. Nozawa. Length, 195-305 mm. 3 



examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 49452. Petropaulski Harbor, Kamtchatka. Albatross collection. 



August 13, 1896. Length, 149-185 mm. 5 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 62340. Same, Riknoku, Japan. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 48-62 



mm. 11 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71116. Hokkaido, Japan. Albatross collection. 1906. Length, 



55-70 mm. 7 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 77498. Tokyo market (Aomori), Japan. Jordan and Snyder, 1900. 



Length, 270 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 82602. Hakodate, Japan. Albatross collection. Length, 60-108 



mm. 8 examples. 

 A.N.S.P. Nos. 1319 and 1320. San Francisco, California. Dr. A. L. Heermann. 



Length, 175-184 mm. Cotypes of Clupea mirabilis Girard. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 1211. Sitka, Alaska. George Davidson. Length, 298 mm. Type of 



Spratelloides bryopm'us Cope. In poor preservation. 



CLUPEA ANTIPODUM (Hector) 



Clupea sprattus var. antipodum Hector, Colonial Mus. Governm. Surv. Dept., 

 (Fishes New Zealand), p. 133, 1872 (type locality: Beach in Foveaux 

 Strait; near Wellington). 



Clupea antipodum Waite, Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 1, No. 1, p. 10, 1907 (refer- 

 ence). — Regan, Ann. Mag. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 227, 1917 (Stewart Island; 

 type of Clupea holodon). 



Amblygaster antipodus Waite, Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 1, No. 4, p. 317, 1912 

 (reference). 



Clupea holodon Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 18, p. 5, 1916 (type 

 locality: Stevpart Island, New Zealand). 



Depth 414 ; head 4 to 4%. Eye 4 in head ; maxillary reaches below 

 front part of eye; elongate-ovate patch of teeth on vomer, broad ovate 

 patch on tongue. Lower gill rakers 36. 



Scales 48 in medial lateral series ; 13 or 14 transversely ; numerous 

 radiating grooves at free edges of scales. Ventral scutes 21 + 12, 

 keeled and pointed. 



