406 CLUPEID^. 



arc twenty-two or twenty-live on the lower branch of the outer 

 branchial arch. 

 China and •Jai)an. 



a. Adult (200 mm. long). Japan. 



b. Fine specimen. Ningpo. Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 

 c-d. Fine specimens. Amoy. Purchased of Mr. Stevens. 



e-f. Half-grown. China. From the Collection of the East-India 

 Company. 



10. Coilia macrognathus. 



Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. Ilarinij, p. 50, or Nat. Tydschr. Ned. 

 Intl. ii. p. 436. 



B. 10. D. 14. A. 62-73. L. lat. 62. 



Six pectoral filaments. Maxillary produced into a long, sword- 

 shaped process, extending beyond the root of the pectorals. The 

 length, of the head is rather less than one-fifth of the total length 

 (without caudal) ; the diameter of the eye is one-fifth of the length 

 of the head. The distance between the vertical from the fii'st dorsal 

 ray and the end of the snout is contained thrice and two-thirds in 

 the total length (without caudal). Serraturc of abdomen very con- 

 spicuous. Gill-rakers fine, closely set ; the longest rather longer 

 than the eye : there are about twenty-five on the lower branch of 

 the outer branchial arch. 



Borneo. 



a. Tjpc of the species (9 inches long). From Dr. Bleeker's Col- 

 lection. 



Second Group. CHATOESSINA. 



Mouth transverse, inferior or suhinferior, narrow, without 

 teeth ; upper jaw overlapping the lower ; abdomen serrated. 



4. CHATOESSUS *. 



Chatoessus, sp., Cuv. Regne Anim. 

 Chatoessus, Ouv. Sf Val. xxi. p. 94. 



Body compressed, abdomen serrated. Scales of moderate size. 

 Snout obtuse, or obtusely conical, more or less projecting beyond 

 the cleft of the mouth, which is narrow, more or less transverse. 



* 1. Kome, Rus.'iell, ii. p. 76, pi. 196. — Coromandel. 



2. Chatoessus osbeckii, C. ^ V. xxi. p. 106.— China.— D. 16. A. 24; a 



dorsal filament. 



3. chrysopterus, Bichards. Icht.h. Chin. p. 308. — China. — Established 



from a rude drawing ; a dorsal filament. 



4. Clupanodon manmina, Ham. Bitch, p. 247 ; Chatoessus manmina. C. ^ 



v. xxi. p. 1 14. — Bengal. — D. 14. A. 24 ; no dorsal filament ; a hume- 

 ral spot. 

 .'). Chntoessu.'i tampo, C. 4^ V. xxi. p. 117- — East Indies. — From a drawing. 



