642 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



U.S.N.M. No. 48802. Nepean and Hunter Rivers, New South Wales. Length, 



200-205 mm. 4 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 59878. Richmond River, New South Wales. D. G. Stead. 1904. 



Length, 131-243 mm. 3 examples. 



Genus HYPERLOPHUS Ogilby 



Hypcrlophus Ogelby, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 26, 1892. (Type, 



Clupea spratellides Ogilby.) 

 Omochetus Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 22, p. 72, 1897. (Type. 



Hyperloplms copii Ogilby, orthotypic.) 



Body oblong or elongate, more or less compressed. Eye rather 

 large, adipose lid much less developed forward. Mouth oblique, lower 

 jaw protruding. Maxillary wide. Band of small teeth along middle 

 of tongue. Suborbital longer than deep. Gill rakers slender, ser- 

 rulate. Branchiostegals 4. Scales moderate, adherent, free edges 

 rounded and pectinated. Caudal base scaly. Elongate scale in ven- 

 tral axil. Dorsal serrae feeble, less developed than abdominal serrae 

 which begin at front of throat. Vertebrae 47. Dorsal median. Anal 

 moderate, low, rays 19 or more. Caudal forked. Pectoral small, 

 obtusely pointed, rays 16. Ventral small, inserted before dorsal, 

 rays 8. 



Australia. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ Anal origin behind end of depressed dorsal ; scales persistent vittatus 



al Anal origin close behind base of last dorsal ray ; scales deciduous. 



translucidus 



HYPERLOPHUS VITTATUS (Castelnau) 



Meletta vittata Castelnau, Victorian OfSc. Record Philadelphia Exhib. (Res. 

 Fishes Australia), p. 46, 1875 (type locality: Melbourne, Victoria). 



Clupea vittata Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 4, p. 379, 1880 

 (copied) ; vol. 6, p. 259, 1881 (reference). — Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 

 new ser., vol. 2, p. 37, 1890 (reference). 



Hyperloplms vittatus MoCulloch, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 11, pt. 7, p. 163, 

 pi. 29, figs. 1-2, 1917 (Moreton Bay). — Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus., 

 vol. 2, No. 1, p. 39, fig. 56, 1921. — McCxjlloch and Whitley, Mem. Queens- 

 land Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 132, 1925 (reference). — MoCulloch, Fishes New 

 South Wales, ed. 2, p. 16, pi. 4, fig. 52a, 1927 ; Australian Mus. Mem., vol. 5, 

 p. 40, 1929 (reference). 



Meletta novae hollandiae (not Valenciennes) Castei,nau, Proc. Zool. Ac- 

 climat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 1, p. 189, 1872 (Melbourne market). 



Clupea spratellides Ogilby, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 24, 1892 (type 

 locality: Parramatta River, New South Wales). 



Hyperlophus spratellides Ogilby, Commercial Fish Fisher. Queensland, p. 47, 1915 

 (Brisbane) ; Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, p. 98, 1916 (Queensland coasts). 



Hyperloplms copii Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 22, p. 72, 1897 

 (type locality: New South Wales coast [Maroubra]); Ann. Queensland 

 Mus., No. 9, p. 5, 1908 (Southport, Queensland).— Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Queensland, vol. 21, p. 24, 1908 (Mud Island). 



