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ON THE ICHTHYOLOGY OF THE SEAS OF CHINA AND JAPAN. 309 
- op» 382. pl. 12. f. 1. Cuv. Régn. An. ii. p. 323. Clupea vittargentea, 
~ Lacép. v. p. 424, 458, 461, exclus. syn. Clupea nattoo vel nettooli, Russ. 
“187. Atherina australis, White, Voy. New S. Wales, 196. f.1. Rad. 
B.10; D.16; A. 23; C.192; P.13; V.7. Length of spec. 33 inches. 
John Russell Reeves, Esq. presented several examples of this fish to the British Museum. 
The species is ranged by Cuvier among the Anchovies, whose bellies are not toothed; but 
the specimens show six teeth before the ventrals as fine as hairs. None exist behind these 
fins. An adipose substance fills an angle before and behind the eye as in the Mackerels. 
Hab. Seas of China, Australia and India. 
The Stolephore japonois of Lacépéde, or the Atherina japonica of Houttuyn, Act. Haarl. 
xx. p. 340, is probably the above species, with the rays of the dorsal imperfectly counted; 
and it is possible that the fish of which a notice from the ‘ Description of Animals’ follows 
after Cl. flosmaris, p. 803, may also be an Anchovy, though it is not represented as having a 
projecting nose. 
NoToPTeRuS KAPIRAT, Lacép. ii. p.189,190. Gymmnotus notopterus, Pall. 
Spic. vi. pl. 6. f.2. Clupea synura, Bl. Schn. p. 426. Mystus karipat, 
Gray, Hardw. Ill. Ind. Zool. pl. 91. f. 2. con. Hard. Malac. Ined. 246. 
Schneider states that he examined two dried examples of this fish, one from India, the 
other from China. He particularly notices the smallness of the ventrals, so that it could not 
be the pengay of Renard, f. 90, which he saw, as that has long ventrals, nor, as he is silent 
about spots on the tail, is it so likely to have been the Mystus chitot of Pennant, ‘ View of 
Hindostan,’ t. xi. (Mystus chitala, Ham. Buch. p. 236, 882; Gray, Hardw. Ill. Ind. Zool. 
pl. 9). f. 1). 
Hab. Seas of China and India. 
Cori1a GRAvu, Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulphur, p. 99. pl. 54. f. 1 & 2. 
Clupea mystus, Osbeck, Voy. ii. p. 25. Engl. tr.; Linn. Ameen. Ae. iv. t. 3. 
f.12. Mystus clupeoides, Lacép. v. p. 466, 467. Icon. Reeves, a. 14; 
Hardw. Malac. 252. Chinese name, Fung we, “ Pheenix tail” (Birch) ; 
Fung ne (Reeves); Fung mi (Bridgem. Chrest.3). Rad. B.10; D.12; 
A. 86; C. 20; P. vii. et 10; V.'7. (Spec. Hasl. Mus.) Genus, Adara, 
Temm. et Schl. 
A specimen was brought from the Chinese seas by Captain Dawkins, R.N., and presented 
to the museum at Haslar. 
. Hab. Chinese seas. Canton. 
Comia PLAyFAIRiI, M‘Clelland (Chetomus), Cale. Journ. iv. plate . 
Polynemus, Descript. of Anim. p. 198. fig. 150; Adara, Temm. et Schl. 
Icon. Reeves, (3.26; Hardw. Malac. Chinese name, Matse (Birch) ; Ma- 
chai (Reeves). Rad. B.9; D.12; A. 70 ad 80; C. 20; P. vi. et 14; 
V. 7. (Spec. Br. Mus.) 
Specimens exist in all the collections of Chinese fishes that we have seen. The scales are 
used in the manufacture of artificial pearls, and the fish is eaten, when pickled, by the 
Chinese. A Japanese specimen exists in the British Museum and is labelled “‘Adara” by 
the authors of the ‘ Fauna Japonica.’ It agrees with Coilia grayii in the number of its anal 
rays, but has the form of C. playfairii and the same number of free pectoral rays. Its num- 
bers are D, 12; A. 86; C. 21; P. vi. et 14; V. 7. 
Hab, Chinese seas. Chusan. Yangtze kiang. Canton river. Hong Kong. Japan. 
Turyssa mystTax, Bl. Schn. p. 426. t. Ixxxiii. (Clupea). Cuv. Régn. An. 
p- 323. Clupea malabaricus, Bl. 432; Bl. Schn. p. 425. Poorawah, 
Russell, 189; Icon. Reeves, 138; Hardw. Malac. 236. Chinese name, 
Tsing kwa (Reeves). Rad. B. 12; D.13; A.39; C. 198; P.133°V.'7. 
(Spec. Br. Mus.) Length of specimens 74 and 9 inches. Length of 
figure 93. 
Mr. Reeves has deposited a specimen in spirits and also a varnished one in the British 
Museum. We have not had an opportunity of comparing them with Indian examples, but 
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