384 Mr. C. T. Regan on the Clupeid Fishes 



12. Sardlnella melanura. 



Clupanodon sinensis, var., Lacep. Hist. Nat. Poiss. v. pi. xi. fig. 3 



(1803). tf- 



Clupea ■melanura, Cuv. Regne Anim. ed. 2, ii. p. 318 (1829). 

 Ik Clupeouia commersoni, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. xx. p. 350 (1847) ; 



Sauvage, Hist. Madagasciu* Poiss. p. 494 (1891). 

 Spratella jimbriata, Bleek. Verh. Batav. Genootscli. xxiv. 1852^ 



Haringaclit. p. 27. 

 Haremjida melanurus, Bleek. Nat. Tijdsclii'. Ned. Ind. v. 1853, p. 245. 

 Clupea atricmiila, Giinth. Cat. Fish." vii. p. 426 (1868) ; Bleek. Atl. 



Iclitli. vi. p. 106, Ciup. pi. x. fig. 5 (1878) ; Day, Fish. ludia, p. 636, 



pi. clxiv. fig. 5 (1878) ; Weber & Beaufort, Fish. ludo-Austral.. 



Arch. ii. p. 80 (1913). 

 Clupea simdaica, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. vi. p. 105, Chip. pi. xiii. fig. 5- 



(1872). 

 ? Harengula melanura, Sauvage, Hist. Madagascar Poiss. p. 492, 



pi. xlviii. fig. 4. 



Depth of body 3^ to 4 in tlie length, lengtli of head 4 to 

 4j. Snout as long as or a little longer than diameter of eye, 

 which is 3|- to' 4 in the length of head ; maxillary extending 

 to below anterior | of eye. 38 to 44 gill-rakers on lower 

 ])art of anterior arch. 44 to 46 scales in a longitudinal 

 serie.«, 12 or 13 in a transverse series ; ventral scutes sharply 

 keeled, 19-20+13. Dorsal 18-19. Anal 16-18. Pelvics 

 8-rayed, below or a little in advance of middle of dorsal. A 

 dark spot at base of anterior dorsal rays; ends of caudal 

 lobes usually blackish. 



Indian Ocean and Archipelago. 



Four specimens, 115 to IGO mm. in total length, including 

 two received from Dr. Bleeker as'//, vielanurus &.\\(}i S. Jimbri- 

 ata^ which appear to be the speciniens figured as C. atricauda 

 and C. suudaica. 



13. Sardinella sirm. 



Clupea sirm, Eiipp. Neue Wirbelth. Fische, p. 77, pi. xxi, fig. 1 



(1835-40); Giiuth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 425(1868) ; Weber & Beaufort, 



Fish. liido-Austral. Archipel. ii. p. 62 (1913). 

 Sardinella leiot/aster, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. xx. p. 270 (1847). 

 Sardinella leiogastroides, Bleek. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. vii. 1854, 



p. 255. 

 Chq^ea liogaster, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. vi. p. 102, Clup. pi. iv. fig. 6 (1872) ; 



Klunziuger, Zool. Botan. Ges. Wien, xxi. 1871, p. 598; Weber & 



Beaufort, t. c. p. 61. 

 Clupea leiogastroides, Bleek. /. c. Clup. pi. xiv. fig. 2. 

 Clupea pijiffuis, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. x. 1872, p. 425, and 



Bienchley's Cruise of the ' Curacoa,' p. 426 (1873); Weber & 



Beaufort, t. c. p. 83. 



Depth of body 4^ to 5 in the length, length of head 4 to 

 4^. (Snout longer than diameter of eye, which is 3f to 4^ in 

 the length of headj maxillary nearly or quite reaching 



