4S0 On the IlerriiKj-Jike Fishes of the Russian Empire. 



Harengula. 

 Synopsis of the Caspian Species. 



I. Profile of back arched. 



Body deep, compressed, its depth more than 20 7o of 



the length of the fish. Giil-rakers 44-56 delicatula. 



Body low, cylindrical, its depth not more than 19 */o 



of the length of the fish. Gill-rakers 59-63 enr/rauliformis, 



II. Back and head forming a straight line. Body compressed, deep. 



Gill-rakers 43 tscharchalensis. 



1. Harengula cultriventris (Nordmann). 



Chipea cultriventris, Nordmann, Fanne pontiqne, iii. 1840, p. 522 (Black 

 Sea) ; Antipa, Denkschr. Ak. Wien, math.-nat. Kl. Ixsviii. 1905, 

 p. 32, Taf. ii. figs. 15-18. 



Black S'ea. 



2. Harengula delicatula (Nordmann). 



Clupea delicatula, Nordm. t. c. p. 524 (Odessa) ; Antipa, t. c, p. 32, 



Taf. ii. tigs. 11-14 (near Danube Delta). 

 Harenqula delicatula, Berg, The Herrings of the Caspian Sea (in Russ.), 



1913, p. 45, tab. i. fig. 2 (Caspian Sea). 



Black and Caspian Seas, entering deltas of rivers. 

 There are two forms, elata and. elongata. 



3. Harengula tscharchalensis (Borodin). 



Clupea cultriventris, var. tscharchalensis, Borodin, Ann. Mus. Zool. 



P^tersb. i. 1896, pp. 82, 88, fig. (in Russ.) (Lake Charkhal). 

 Harengula tscha7-chcilensis. Berg, t. c. p. 45. 



Lake Charkhal (tributary of the Ural River), middle 

 Volga. 



4. Harengula engrauliformis (Borodin). 



Clupea engrauliformis, Borodin, Trudv, Gasp. Exp. 1904, ii. 1908, 



p. 50. 

 Harengula engrauliformis. Berg, t. c. p. 46, tab, i. fig. 3. 



"West coast of the Caspian Sea. 



