5. CLUPEA. 423 



B. Species from the Indian Ocean and Archipelago, China, 

 a. Root of the ventral opposite to the origin of the dorsal. 



12. Clupea argyrotaenia. 



Alausa chaippil, Cant, Mai. Fish. p. 302 (not Gray). 

 liogenia argyrota3nia, Block. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. Hariny, p. 20 ; or 

 Nat. Tydschr. Ned. Ind. iii. p. 457. 



B. 6. D. 16. A. 17-18. L.lat. 41. L. transv. 10. 



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

 the height of the body one-third ; head nearly as deep as long. 

 Scales regularly arranged, firm, adherent, smooth, with the margin 

 entire. Abdominal profile more convex than dorsal. Lower jaw 

 scarcely projecting beyond the upper ; snout short, maxillary ex- 

 tending beyond the vertical from the front margin of the orbit. A 

 narrow strip of minute and deciduous teeth on the palatine and 

 pterygoid bones (? similar teeth on the vomer*); tongue with a 

 median longitudinal toothed ridge. Opercles smooth. Gill-rakers 

 very fine and closely set, shorter than the eye. Eye as long as the 

 snout, two-sevenths of the length of the head. Ventral fin inserted 

 heJow the oriqin of the dorsal fin, which is rather nearer to the end 

 of the snout than to the root of the caudal fin. There arc eleven 

 abdominal scutes behind the base of the ventral fin. Suboperculum 

 rounded behind. Body with a silvery longitudinal band. 



Java ; Banka ; Pinang. 



a. Adult. Java. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 



h. Adult : skin. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



b. Hoot of the ventral opposite to the middle of the dorsal. 



aa. The height of the body is one-third or more of the total length (without 



caudal). 



13. Clupea brachysoma. 



Sardinella brachysoma, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. Hanng, p. 19. 

 B. 0. D. 17-18. A. 18-19. L. lat. 45. L. transv. 13. 

 The length of the head is contained four times and one-fifth in 

 the total (without caudal), the height of the body twice and three- 

 fourths ; head nearly as deep as long. Scales regularly arranged, 

 firm, adherent, with the murgin conspicuously serrated and irregidarly 

 crenulated. Abdominal profile conspicuously more convex than the 

 dorsal. Lower jaw scarcely projecting beyond the upper; snout 

 short, maxillary extending to below the front margin of the orbit. 

 A narrow strip of teeth on the palatine and pterygoid bones ; none 

 on the vomer ; tongue with a median longitudinal crest, which bears 

 only rudimental teeth, if any. Cheeks and operculum Avith very fine 

 radiating striae. Gill-rakera very fine and closely set, shorter than 

 the eye. Eye as long as the snout, two-sevenths of the length of 

 the head. Ventral tin inserted below tbo middle of tho dorsal fin, 



* I am unable to find them. 



