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back with a bluish-green tint, and usually a black spot on the 

 shoulder. Fins yellowish, the dorsal and caudal with dark outer 

 edges. 



Hob. Fresh waters of Sind, and the districts watered by the 

 Indus and its branches, also the affluents and main streams of the 

 Ganges, Jumna, Brahmaputra, and Mahanadi. This fish attains 

 at least 11 inches in length. 



490. (4). Chatoessus nasus. (Fig. 120.) 



Clupea nasus, Block, Ich. t. 429, fig. 1. 



Chatoessus nasus, I)ay, Fish. India, p. 634, pi. clx, fig. 4 (see synon.). 



Noonah, Mai. ; Mitddu candai, Tarn. ; Kome, Tel. and Ooriali. 

 D. 15-17. A. 22-24.' C. 19. L. 1. 46-50. L. tr. 18-19. 



Length of head 4| to 5, height of body 3| to 3 in the total 

 length. Fins last dorsal ray elongated, in some examples reach- 

 ing to the base of the caudal fin. Ventral inserted under the 

 anterior dorsal rays. ' Scales with serrated edges, regular ; 28 

 scutes along the abdominal and thoracic edge, about 15 of which 

 are anterior to the ventral fin. Colour back greyish green, the 



Fig. 120. Chatoessus nasus. 



centre of each scale in the first seven rows the darkest, thus form- 

 ing horizontal lines, the lower of which do not extend to the 

 caudal. Abdomen whitish, shot with gold. A bluish spot (some- 

 times absent) on the shoulder. Preopercle of a brilliant golden 

 tint. Dorsal greenish yellow, the posterior margin stained blackish. 

 Pectoral, ventral, anal, and caudal yellowish, the last with a dark 

 extremity. 



Hab. Seas of India to the Malay Archipelago and Philippine 

 Islands. This species is good eating, but bony. 



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