428 CLUPEID.Ti. 



larly arranged, firm, adherent, tvith the margin striated, serrated, or 

 deeply indented. Lower jaw scarcely prominent, the maxillary ex- 

 tending beyond the front margin of the orbit. An ovate patch of 

 minute teeth on the palatine bones ; these teeth are sometimes deci- 

 duous ; none on the pterygoid bones. A narrow strip along the 

 median ridge of the tongue. Opurcles smooth. Gill-rakers very 

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

 the snout, which is of moderate extent, rather more than one-fourth 

 of the length of the head. Ventral fin inserted below the middle of 

 the dorsal fin, the base of which is midway between the end of the 

 snout and the root of the caudal fin. There are fourteen abdominal 

 scutes behind the base of the ventral fin. Back greenish; sides 

 silvery. 



Indian Ocean. 



a-h. Types of the species, skins. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's 



Collection. 

 c. Adult. Madras. Purchased of Surgeon Day. 



22. Clupea longiceps. 

 Sai'diuella longiceps, Cuv. 4* Val. xx. p. 273. 



D. 16. A. 16. 



Tfie TieigTit of the hody is less than the length of the head, which is 

 one-third of the total (without caudal). Teeth on the palatine and 

 pterj-goid bones and on the tongue. ( Val.) 



Pondicherry. 



23. Clupea nymphaea. 

 Clupea nymphaea, Hichards. Ichthyol. Clmi. p. 304. 



D. 17. A. 20. L. lat. 40. L. transv. 13. 



The length of the head is contained four times in the total (without 

 caudal), the height of the body thrice and one-sixth ; head nearly as 

 deep as long. Scales regularly arranged, firm, adherent, conspicuously 

 striated, with the margin serrated and irregularly crenulated. Ab- 

 dominal profile more convex than dorsal. Lower jaw scarcely 

 projecting beyond the Upper ; snout short, maxillary extending be- 

 yond the vertical from the front margin of the orbit. A narrow 

 strip of minute teeth on the pterygoid bones ; none 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 below the middle of the dorsal fin, which occupies the 

 middle of the distance between the end of the snout and the root of 

 the caudal fin. There are twelve abdominal scutes behind the base 

 of the ventral fin. Suboperculum subtruncate behind. 



China. 



a. Five and a half inches long. Presented by J. E. Reeves, Esq. 



Pichardson {I.e.), apparently guided by two drawings presented 

 by Mr. llecvos to the British Museiuu, described two Chinese Her- 



