5. CLUPEA. 433 



h. Fine specimen. Dominicia. Purchased of Mr. Cutter. 



c-d. Young. Puerto Cabello. Purchased of Mr. Brandt. 



e. Adult. Trinidad. Purchased of Mr. Cutter. 



/ Adult. Granada. Purchased of Mr. Cutter. 



g. Fine specimen. San Domingo, Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 



h. Adult. Cuba. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



i-o. Adult : skins. Jamaica. Purchased of Mr, Parnell. 



p, q, r-u. Adult. "West Indies, 



V. Adult : skeleton. Barbadoes. Purchased of Mr. Cutter, 



On an accessory branchial organ and the intestines see Hyrtl, 

 Denkschr. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1855, x. pp. 48 & 51. 



31. Clupea libertatis. 



Meletta libertatis, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 603. 

 Very similar to Clupea thrissa. 



D. 17. A. 19, L. lat. 48. 

 The last dorsal ray is produced into a long filament. The height 

 of the body is a little more than the length of the head, which is con- 

 tained thrice and two-thirds in the total (without caudal). Struc- 

 ture of head, fins, and scales as in CI. thrissa. No humeral spot. 



Pacific coast of Central America. 

 a. Type of the species, 2| inches long. Libertad. From Mr. Salvin's 

 Collection. 



2. The last dorsal rai/ not prolonged (Alosa). 

 A. Atlantic species. 



32, Clupea alosa. 



The Shad, The Allis or Allice Shad. Der Mai-Fisch or Die Alse. 



Alausa, Auson. v. v. 127 j Bellon. Be Aquat. p, 309; Salvian. fol. 104. 



Trichis, Bellon. De Aquat. p. 300. 



Thrissa, Rondel p. 220, 



Allis, Penti. Brit. Zool. iii. p. 307, 



Clupea, sp., Grmiov. Zoophyl. no. 347. 



Clupea alosa (part.), L. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 523. 



Harengus, sp., EJein, Pise. Miss. v. p. 72. no 5, 1. 19. f. 4. 



Clupea rufa, Lacep. v. p. 452. 



Clupea alosa, Ciiv. Regne An. ; Jenyns, Man. p, 438 ; Gronov. Syst. 



ed. Gray, p. 139; Gi'mth. Fische d. Ncckars, p. 121. 

 Alosa communis, Yarrell, Brit. Fish. 2nd edit, ii, p. 213, or 3rd edit. 



i, p. 133 ; Parnell, Werner. Mem. vii. p, 330 ; or Fish. Firth of 



Forth, p. 170. 

 Alausa vulgaris (part.), Cuv. ^- Val. xx. p, 391 ; Heckel ^ Kner, Siiss- 



wasserf. p. 228. fig. 133. 

 Alosa vulgaris, Troschel, Wiegm. Arch. 1852, p. 228 ; Selys-Longch. 



Faun. Beige, p, 220 ; Siehold, Siisswasscrjische, p, 328. 

 Allis Shad, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. p. 117, pi. 204. 

 Skeleton: Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. v. 2, p. 111, pi, 1, 



Hemarhs on the Synonymy of Clupea alosa and Clupea finta. 



Although several authors, especially Cuvicr, distinguished these 



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