6. CLT7PEOIDE8. 451 



61. Clupea zunasi. 



Clupea kowal, Schleg. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 235, tab. 7. fig. 1 (not 



Rupp.). 

 Ilarengula zunasi, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxvi. Japan, p. 117. 



D. 17. A. 17. L. lat. 40. 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, which is a 

 little more than one-fourth of the total (without caudal), head 

 longer than deep. Scales regularly arranged, thin, deciduous, with 

 the margin entire and scarcely crenulated. Abdominal profile not 

 more convex than the dorsal. Lower jaw projecting beyond the 

 upper ; snout short, maxillary extending be^-^ond the front margin 

 of the orbit. No teeth on the palate * ; tongue with a median line 

 of minute teeth. Opercles smooth. Gill-rakers fine and closely 

 set, shorter than the eye. Eye as long as the snout, two-sevenths 

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

 the dorsal fin, the origin of which is conspicuously nearer to the end 

 of the snout than to the root of the caudal fin. There are fourteen 

 abdominal scutes behind the base of the ventral fin. Back greenish, 

 sides silvery. 



Japan. 



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



6. CLUPEOIDES. 



Clupeoides, Bleek. Nat. Tydschr. Ned, Ind. i. p. 274. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed, with the abdominal serra- 

 ture commencii^g behind the pectoral fins. Scales of moderate siae. 

 Lower jaw longer than the upper. Teeth, if present, rudimentary 

 and deciduous. Anal fin of moderate extent, with less than 20 

 rays ; dorsal fin opposite to the ventrals. Caudal forked. 



Borneo. 



1. Clupeoides hypselosoma. 

 Clupeoides hypselosoma, Bleek. Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 1866, p. 293. 

 D. 15. A. 16. L. lat. 37. L. transv. 10. 

 The height of the body is contained thrice and one-third in the 

 total length (without caudal), the length of the head thrice and a 

 half; lower jaw scarcely projecting beyond the upper; maxillaiy 

 extending beyond the front margin of the eye. Origin of the dorsal 

 fin midway between the end of the snout and the root of the caudal, 

 and opposite to the base of the ventrals. Seven slender postventral 

 spines. 



Borneo. 

 a. Type of the species, 2 inches long. Bandjermassing. From Dr. 

 Bleeker's Collection. 



* Bleeker describes palatine and pterygoid teeth ; they are not present in tlie 

 single specimen examined by him and myself. 



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