J 5 •KNDKAVOUE' J^CIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Two males are in the collection which were trawled in 40 

 fathoms off the East Coast of Flinders Island, Bass Strait. 

 Waite's specimens were all females, but the males ha\e been 

 well described by Shigeho Kanaka from Japan. 



Family CALLORHVNCHID.^-:. 

 Genus Callorhvn'chus, Ciivier. 



CALLOKH^^'CHUS CALLORVNCHUS, LtUUcFtlS. 



Elephant-fish. 



('allorhynchiis calloryticliiis, Waite, Rec. Cantb. Mus., i.,. 

 No. 2, 1909, p. J3, pi. xvi., fig. _'. 

 .4 small specimen is preserved taken off the east coast of 

 Flinders Island, Bass Strait, and six others from the \'ictorian 



^"^s*- Family CLUPEID^. 



Genus Clupea, Linucejis. 

 Clupea (Pomolobus) bassensis, sp. nov. 

 Australian Sprat. 

 (Plate iv., fig. 2.) 

 Clupea sprattus, Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 672 {nee 

 C. sprattus, Linnaeus). 

 D. 18: A. 18-20; P. 17; V. 8; C. 19; Scales 44, 12. 



Body elongate, its greatest breadth less than half its height,, 

 which is 4.4 to 4.8 in the length from the snout to the hypural. 

 Belly somewhat rounded, the scutes small, twenty-one between 

 the head and the ventrals, and eleven more to the vent. 

 Scales large, cycloid, commencing above the preopercle and 

 extending onto the base of the tail. 



Head 3.5 to 4 in the length, and either very little or con- 

 siderably longer than the body is deep. Eye 3.1 to 3.6 in the 

 head, with a narrow adipose lid before and behind. Inter- 

 orbital space flat, equal to about two-thirds of the eye. 

 Maxillary very large, its greatest width one-third its length, 

 reaching to below the anterior third or almost to the middle of 

 the eye ; supplemental bone very large. Upper posterior 

 border of the operculum emarginate ; hindermost portion 

 formed of a skinny flap. Cheeks and upper portion of oper- 

 culum covered with translucent flesh, the rest of the head 

 naked. Lower margin of the maxillary microscopically 

 denticulate. A few^ microscopic teeth are placed at widely- 

 spaced intervals on the anterior part of the jaws.i 



Origin of the dorsal well in advance of the middle of the 

 total length and just behind the vertical of the ventral fins ; 



1 Giinther stated that he found palatine teeth in his specimens "as well 

 developed as in CI. fiiirnthis." I have failed to find any in either species. 

 but this charat-ter is generally admitted to be inconstant. 



