5. CLXJPEA. 429 



rings tinder the names Clupea isinr/leena and Chijpea nympluea. 

 Although these drtuvings are not sufheiently exact to serve for a 

 satisfactory diagnosis of these fishes, yd the one named CI. isingJeena 

 is miich deeper in the body than the other, which lias become 

 the type of Cl. nymphcm. Eichardson states that a specimen of 

 each exists in the British Musemn, from which he has completed 

 his descriptions, saying that the specimen of Cl. isingJeena has 

 twenty-one anal rays, and is 5| inches long ; whilst Cl. oiymphcea is 

 said to have fifteen or sixteen anal rays only ; the size is not stated. 

 — I cannot help coming to the conclusion that E-ichardson (who, 

 having made his observations in the British Museum, afterwards 

 worked out these materials at his own home) fell into an error with 

 regard to these species. There is only one example in the British 

 Museum; and this belongs, on account of its oblong form, to the 

 figure named Cl. nymphcea, although it has twenty anal rays and is 

 5| inches long ; notes taken from it have evidently been transfen'ed 

 by Eichardson to Cl. isingleena, to which it cannot be referred on 

 account of its more slender form. 



What Cl. isingleena is, can hardly be made out ; it may be Cl. 

 Tcowala, or one of the species allied to it. 



24. Clupea dispilonotus. 



Harengula dispilonotus, Bleek. Nat. Tydschr. Ned. Ind. iil. p. 456; or 

 Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. JIaring, p. 49. 



B. 6. D. 18. A. 15. L. lat. 32. L. transv. 11. 



The length of the head is contained four times in the total (with- 

 out caudal), the height of the body thrice and one-third ; head a 

 little longer than deep. Scales regiJarly arranged, rather firm and 

 deciduous, with the margin entire, and with several vertical striae. 

 Abdominal profile more convex than the dorsal ; lower jaw scarcely 

 projecting beyond the upper ; snout short ; maxillary extending be- 

 yond the front margin of the orbit. A band of teeth on the palatine 

 and pterygoid bones, none on the vomer ; tongue with a broad patch 

 of minute teeth. Cheeks and operculum with very fine radiating 

 striae. Gill-rakers very fine and closely set, shorter than the eye. 

 Eye a little shorter than the snout, one-third of the length of the 

 head. Ventral fin inserted below the middle of the dorsal fin, which 

 occupies nearly the middle of the distance between the end of the 

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

 scutes behind the base of the ventral fin. Two hlacJc spots on the 

 hack — one on the base of the posterior dorsal rays, and the other at 

 some distance behind it. 



Banka. 



a. Type of the species. Banka. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection, 

 h-f. Adult. From the Haslar Collection. 



