464 CLUPEIDJE. 



Fourth Group. DUSSUMIERIINA. 



Mouth anterior and lateral; upper jaw not overlapping the 

 lower ; abdomen neither keeled nor serrated ; no osseous gular 

 plate. 



12. SPRATELLOIDES. 

 Spratelloides et Clupeoides, sp., Bleekcr. 



Body slightly compressed or subcylindrical, elongate. Abdomen 

 obtuse, without keel or serrature. Scales of moderate size, decidu- 

 ous ; lateral line none. Snout compressed, formed as in Clupea. 

 Teeth none, or minute and deciduous. Anal fin short ; dorsal oppo- 

 site to the ventrals. GiU-membranes separate, with about six short 

 flat branchiostegals. Pseudobranchiae weU developed. Pyloric ap- 

 pendages in moderate number; stomach with a long blind sac. 

 Ovaries closed, with oviducts. 



Indian and Australian Seas (West Indies). 



1. Spratelloides delicatulus. 



Clupea delicatida, Benn. Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. i. p. 168. 



macassariensis, Bleek. Journ. Ind, Archipel, 1849, p. 72. 



Clupeoides macassariensis, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. llaring, p. 17 ; 

 or Nat. Tydschr. Ned. Ind. iii. p. 772. 



B. 6. D. 11. A. 9. L. lat. 35. 



The height of the body is one-sixth or rather more than one-sixth 

 of the total length (without caudal), the length of the head one- 

 fourth. Snout rather pointed, longer than the orbit, with the lower 

 jaw shghtly projecting beyond the upper. Maxillary rather broad, 

 and extending to the vertical from the front margin of the orbit. 

 Origin of the dorsal fin nearer to the end of the snout than to the 

 root of the caudal ; ventrals inserted below the posterior third of 

 the dorsal fin. Back dark-coloured, sides and beUy silvery, the 

 two colours being sharply defined. 



Indian ocean and archipelago ; Australia. 



a. Three inches long. East-Indian archipelago. From Dr. Blocker's 

 Collection. 



h. Adult female, 3| inches long. Australia. From J. MacGillivray's 

 Collection. 



c. Several adult specimens in a bad state. From the Haslar Col- 

 lection. 



2. Spratelloides albumus. 



Alosa alburnus, Knei- 8f Steindachnet-, Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1866, 

 October, Hv. (publ. 18G7,) tig. IG. 



D. 11-12. A. 11-12. L. lat. 36. L. transv. 5. 

 The height of the body is one-fifth of the total length without 

 caudal^, tha length of the head neaily one-fourth. The diameter 



