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behind origin of dorsal. One anal fin. Teeth variously arranged 
on jaws, palatines, pterygoids and tongue, sometimes absent. 
Vomerine teeth always wanting. 
Synopsis of the subgenera. 
I. Belly obtuse, not cultrate, postventral edge not ser- 
rated. Teeth on palatines, pterygoids and tongue. . 
Subgenus: Amdlygaster. p. 61. 
Il. Belly strongly compressed, cultrate, serrated, teeth 
variable. 
a. Oblong. Intermaxillaries meeting at an acute 
angle, sometimes forming an incisure for the 
tip of the lower jaw. Height about 3 or less. 
Teeth deciduous, if present, only on jaws. . . 
Subgenus: A/osa p. 64. 
6. Oblong or suboblong. Border of upper jaw 
without incisure. Height generally more than 
3, if less the dentition is complete (exc. me/a- 
nura). Teeth, if complete, on jaws, palatines, 
pterygoids and tongue........ Subgenus: Harengula p. 68. 
I. Subgenus Amblygaster Bleeker. 
Synopsis, -of the species. 
I. Maxillary reaches to below frontmargin of eye or 
nearly so, 14—15 postventral abdominal scutes. 
a. A pearl-coloured longitudinal band, often with 
a series of dark spots; 30 gillrakers...... C. (A.) leiogaster p. 61. 
6, No lateral band, 40 gillrakers........ 5 Geu(CA.)) Sernt.-p., 62: 
II. Maxillary distinctly distant from frontmargin of eye, 
I2 postventral abdominal scutes; no lateral band, 
Si So Sa ee A, ee C. (A.) clupeoides p. 63. 
1. Clupea (Amblygaster) leiogaster (C. V.). 
Sardinella leiogaster Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XX. 1847, p. 270. 
Clupea sirm Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 425. (partim). 
Clupea (Amblygaster) leiogaster Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 102. 
Clupea liogaster Klunzinger, Abh. Zool. Botan. Ges. Wien XXI. 1871, p. 598. 
B. 6; D.17—18; A. 18—20; P. 16—18; V.8; L.1.42—44; 
L. tr. 10—12. 
Elongate, dorsal and ventral profile nearly equal, height 
about 4'/,—4?/,, head 4—4"/,, eye 3'/,—3'/,, a little shorter 
