464 CLUPEIDJJ. 



Fourth Group. DUSSUMIEEIINA. 



Mouth anterior and lateral ; upper jaw not overlapping the 

 lower ; ahdomen neither keeled nor serrated ; no osseous gular 

 plate. 



12. SPHATELLOIDES. 

 Spratelloides et Clupeoides, sp., Blvclwr. 



Body slightly compressed or subcylindrical, elongate. Abdomen 

 obtuse, ^^'ithout keel or serrature. Scales of moderate size, decidu- 

 ous ; lateral line none. Snout compressed, formed as in Clupca. 

 Teeth none, or minute and deciduous. Anal fin short ; dorsal oppo- 

 site to the vcntrals. Gill-membranes separate, with about six short 

 flat branchiostegals. Pscudobrauchia; weU developed. Pyloric ap- 

 pendages in moderate number ; stomach with a long blind sac. 

 Ovaries closed, with oviducts. 



Indian and Australian Seas (West Indies). 



1. Spratelloides delicatulus. 



Clupea delicatula, Benu. Proc. Comm. Zonl. Soc. i. p. 168. 



macassariensis, Bleek. Journ. Ind. Archipel, 1849, p. 72. 



Clupeoides macassariensis, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. Hariiuj, p. 17 ; 

 or Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. iii. p. 772. 



B. 6. D. 11. A. 9. L. lat. 35. 

 The height of the body is one-sixth or rather more than one-sixth 

 of the total length (without caudal), the length of the head one- 

 fourth. Snout rather pointed, longer than the orbit, with the lower 

 jaw shghtly projecting beyond the upper. MaxiUary rather broad, 

 and extending to the vertical from the front margin of the orbit. 

 Origin of the dorsal fin nearer to the end of the snout than to the 

 root of the caudal ; ventrals inserted below the posterior third of 

 the dorsal fin. Back dark-coloured, sides and beUy sUveiy, the 

 two colours being sharjjy defined. 



Indian ocean and archipelago ; AustraHa. 

 a. Three inches long. East-Indian archipelago. From Dr. Bleekcr's 



Collection. 

 h. Adult female, 3g inches long. Australia. Erom J, MacGillivi-ay's 



Collection. 

 c. Several adult specimens in a bad state. From the Haslar Col- 

 lection. 



2. Spratelloides albui'nus. 



Alosa albm-uus, Kner S,- Steindachwr, Sitzgshcr. AA\ Wiss. Wien, 18G6, 

 October, liv. (publ. 1867,) tig. 16. 



D. 11-12. A. 11-12. L. lat. 36. L. transv. 5. 

 The height of the body is one-tifth of the total length (without 

 caudal), the length of the head nearly one-fourth. The diameter 



