308 Mr. C. T. Regan oh the Clupeoid Fishes 



of liead ; maxillary extending to below anterior part or 

 middle of eye; 200 or more gill-ralcers on lower part of ante- 

 rior arcli, 75 to 100 scales in a longitudinal and 27 to 84 in 

 a transverse series; ventral scutes 18-20 + 8-10. Dorsal 

 14-16. Anal 20-24. Pectoral 13-14. Pelvics nearly 

 below origin of dorsal. Usually a dark humeral spot, some- 

 tinies followed by a series. 



Northern India^ from Sind to Assam. 



(Several examples, 120 to 140 mm. long. 



2. Gadiisia variegata. 



Clupea variegata, Day, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 263 ; Fish. India, 

 p. 639, pi. clxi. fig. 4. 



Depth of body 2| in the length, length of head 3|. 

 Snout a little shorter than diameter of eye, which is 4^ in 

 length o£ head ; maxilhiry extending to below middle o£ eye; 

 more than 200 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. 

 90 scides in a longitudinal and 32 in a transverse series; 

 ventral scutes 19 + 10. Dorsal 16. Anal 23. Pectoral 14. 

 Pelvics nearly below origin of dorsal. Back with several 

 vertically expanded dark spots. 



Burma. 



A single specimen, 166 mm. in total length. 



According to Day, this species differs from O. chapra in 

 the deeper body, the coloration, and 24 to 29 instead of 21 

 to 24 anal rays. 



9. Clupanodon, Lacep. 1803 *. 



Hist. Nat. Poiss. t. p. 468; Bleek. All. Ichth. vi. p. 112 (1872). 

 Kotiosirus, Jord. & Suyder, Proc. U.S. JSat. Mus. xxiii. 1900, p. 349, 



Mouth toothless, terminal or subterniinal, with lateral 



* Of the six species placed by Lacepede in Clujmnodon, Jordan (in 

 collaboration) has at different times regarded as the genotype : l.jussieui 

 (by designation), 2. ptlchardiis (by elimination), and 3. thrissa (the first 

 species). But before this, in 1872, Bleeker (Atl. Ichth. vi. p. 112) stated 

 that Clupanodon thrissa was the type of Lacepede's genus. Reference to 

 Lacepede's work leaves no doubt that his species was the true Clupea 

 thrissa of Linnpens, who took the name and the diagnosis respectively 

 from Osbeck and from Langerstrom. Lacepede took the specific name 

 from Linnaeus, and gave China as the first locality ; his description of 

 the pointed lower jaw and the notched upper jaw, and his statement 

 that the fish spawns in fresh water, apply quite well to the Chinese 

 species, but not to the Antillean species {Opistkonema oc/linuvi), which 

 so many of the older writers believed to be the same fish. Consequently 

 I regard the Clupea thrissa of Osbeck, Linnaeus, and Lacepede, and not 

 the Clupea thrissa of Bloch and of Giinther, as the type of Clupanodon. 



