5. CLUPEA. 445 



horizontal branch of the outer branchial arch consists of two portions 

 joined at an obtuse angle. A. dark spot on the shoulder. 

 Bengal and Assam. 



a. Stuffed. Ganges. 



h-c. Ganges. Presented by G. R. Waterhouse, Esq. 

 d-e. Young. Assam. From the Collection of the East-India Com- 

 pany. 

 f. Half-grown. Cachar. Presented by Lieut.-Col. Playfair. 



b. L. lat. less than 50. 

 aa. Teeth notie. 



49. Clupea palasah. 



The Sablefish. 



Palasah, Rtissell, ii. pi. 198. 



Alausa palasah, Cuv. <§• Vol. xx. p. 432 ; Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 300. 



D. 19. A. 17-19. L. lat. 47. L. transv. 17. 



Scales regularly arranged. The height of the body is contained 

 thrice in the total length (without caudal), the length of the head 

 thrice and two-thirds. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. The 

 length of the smooth operculum is a little more than two-thirds of its 

 depth. Lower jaw not projecting beyond the upper ; maxillary 

 straight, rather narrow, reaching to, or nearly to, the vertical from 

 the hind margin of the orbit. Teeth none. Ventral fins opposite 

 to the front margin of the dorsal, the origin of which is a little 

 nearer to the end of the snout than to the root of the caudal. Caudal 

 fin rather shorter than the head, thickly covered with small scales. 

 Suboperculum somewhat tapering behind. There are fourteen ab- 

 dominal scutes behind the ventral fins. 



Bengal ; peninsula of India. 



a-c. Adidt: stuffed. Ganges. 



d. Adult : stuffed. Cochin. Purchased. 



50. Clupea ilisha. 



? Keelee, Russell, ii. pi. 195. 



Clupea sinensis, (?? L.) Bloch, taf. 405. 



Clupanodon ilisha, Ham. Buch. Fish. Gang. p. 243, pi. 19. fig. '. 



Clupeonia hlochii, Cuv. ^ Val. xx. p. 353. 



Alausa toli, Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 299 (not Cuv. <§• Val.). 



ilisha, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. Having, p. 33. 



kanagurta, Bleck. I. c. p, 34. 



malayana, Bleeh. Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. 1866, p. 294. 



Alosa chaprv^ Giinth. in Fish. Zanz. p. 123 (not Gray). 



B. 6. D. 18-19i A. 19-21. L. lat. 40-44. L. transv. 15. 



Scales regularly arranged. The height of the body is a little more 

 than one-third of the total length (without caudal), the length of the 

 head two-sevenths or rather more than two-sevenths. Caudal pe- 

 duncle short, as long as deep, or even shorter. The length of the 

 smooth operculum is nearly one-half of its de^tJi, Lower jaw scarcely 



