47G Dr. L. S. Berg on the 



Teeth strong. Upper profile of head rounded. Depth of 

 body 24-4-2'8-8 °/^ of the length of fish, least depth 8-1-9 1 ° '<,, 

 head 24-5-26'0 °/^. Depth of head at occiput 78-7-85 7 % 

 of its length. Eye large, 5-l-6'5 °/q of the length of fish. 

 Pectorals extending 70-77 °/q of the distance from their base 

 to that of pelvics. Scales rather firm. Sometimes dark 

 spots on the sides of body. 



Total length 160-185 mm. (sometimes to 233 mm.). 



Caspian Sea : Bay of Agrakhan, Tiuleuy (Seal) Island. 



3. Clupeonella curensis (Suworow). 



L'lupea (Alosd) curensis, Suworow, Trudy, Casp. Exp. 1904 (iu Russ.), 



i. 1907, pp. 166, 192-194 ; ii. 1908, p.' 46. 

 Clupeonella curensis, Berg, The IlerriuffS of the Caspian Sea (in Russ.), 



1913, p. 22, tab. xiii. tigs. 1, 2. 



p. III-IV 12-14. A. Ill 17-19. Sq. 52-53. Ventral 

 scutes 29-35. Gill-rakers 30-45 (average 35*7), long, 

 slender. Teeth moderate. A distinct tubercle at the 

 antero-inferior end of the lower jaw. Upper profile of head 

 straight. Depth of body 18-4-27-2 % of the length of the 

 fish, eye 5"4— G'2 7o- Depth of head at occiput 65-8-73"6°/q 

 of the length of head. Pectoral extending 68-81 °/o of the 

 distance from its base to that of pelvics. A dark band along 

 sides of body. Small specimeus «ith back in front of dorsal 

 fin distinctly keeled. 



Total length to 200 mm. 



West coast of the Caspian Sea, from the mouth of Kura 

 to near Petrowsk. 



4. Clupeonella brashiiikuvi (Borodin). 



Clupea saposchnikoioi, var., Brasbnikov, Yiest. Rybopr. 1898, p. 231 (in 



Russ.). 

 Clupea caspiopontica, vai'. hraschnihoioi, Borodin, ibidem^ 1904, p. 176 



(in Russ.). 

 Clupeo7ieUa brashiikovi, Berg, The Herrings of the Caspian Sea (in 



Russ.), 1913, p. 24, tab. x., xi. 



D. Ill 15. A. Ill 18. Sq. 51-54. Gill-rakers 25-40 

 (average 32'2), long, thick. Teeth strong. Head cunei- 

 form. Eye small, in adults 4*5-5 "0 °/q of the length of body. 

 Body usually elongate, its depth 21-24 °/q of the lengtii of 

 the fish, but sometimes as much as 29 j^ (morpha elata). 

 Pectoral, in adults, extending not more than 61 °j^ of the 

 distance from its base to that of pelvics. 



Total length to 483 mm. 



Caspian Sea, principally at Manghyshlak. Not entering 

 livers. 



