NO. 1407. FISHES FROM NEGROS— JORDAN AND SEALE. 771 



These specimens, corresponding- to S. argyrotsenla^ seem to diti'er 

 from flapanese examples only in having no distinct dark streak along 

 the npper edge of the lateral band. Perhaps this ma}' appear with 

 age, as it is not conspicuous in the smallest of our Japanese examples. 



Family ENGRAULID.E. 



ANCHOVIA Jordan and Evermann. 

 {Stok'jtltonix Bleekek, not nf I.acepede. ) 



7. ANCHOVIA COMMERSONIANA (Lacepede). 



Numerous specimens of this species were secured. 



Family DOROSOMATID.E. 



ANODONTOSTOM A Bleeker. 

 8. ANODONTOSTOMA CHACUNDA (Hamilton Buchanan). 



Numerous specimens of this species, repi'esenting the more elongate 

 form, figured by Bleeker as var. selangl'at, were taken. 



The name Aiiodontostonid may be used for the species of Dorosoi/ia 

 which lack the dorsal lilament. Go/tosfotna (Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 

 1S2!2) was devised for the same group, ])ut w^as earlier used by Rafin- 

 esque for a diti'ei'ent genus. 



The generic names Olt/jta/todo/i Lacepede, Tfnussa Ratinesque, and 

 CJi((to!'ssus Cuvier were all primarily based on a species from the 

 West Indies confounded by Linmeus with (lajtea tJirlssa, the type 

 of the latter called Op'tsthom tun by Dr. Theodore Gill. For this 

 American genus, and this only, the name VJapanodon should be used, 

 and its typt? ^p^^<"ies shoidd stand as CJupanodonogllnus. Lacepede's 

 account of ('hijKiiKxhm fJtrlsHd wiis based on the American and not 

 on the Chinese species called Clajjea thrissa. The Chinese species, 

 originally named (Jhiped t/i/'is.^a by Osbeck, must stand as Jutnosirus 

 thrl.ssa Linnteus, the specific name t/ir!xs<i. having been taken by Lin- 

 naeus from Osbeck (1757). As Osbeck counted the tin rays D. 16, 

 A. 21, Ko/iosi/'ii.s f/u'/'.s.s(( is no doul>t identical with Clapea naxua Block 

 {ChatoPsxHs iiasus Cuvier and Valenciennes), the only species of the 

 genus yet known from Hongkong and Canton. CJuitoessus aquosu^ 

 Richardson, from Canton, is based on a dried skin of Konosirus 

 thrism^ and thei'e seems to l)e no trustworthy record of the Japanese 

 species Konaxtriix punctattts (Schlegel) from China. 



