6i 



behind origin of dorsal. One anal fin. Teeth variously arranged 

 on jaws, palatines, pterygoids and tongue, sometimes absent. 

 Vomerine teeth always wanting. 



Synopsis of the subgenera. 



I. Belly obtuse, not cultrate, postventral edge not ser- 

 rated. Teeth on palatines, pterygoids and tongue . . 



Subgenus: Amblygaster. p. 6l. 



II. Belly strongly compressed, cultrate, serrated, teeth 

 variable. 



a. Oblong. Intermaxillaries meeting at an acute 

 angle, sometimes forming an incisure for the 

 tip of the lower jaw. Height about 3 or less. 

 Teeth deciduous, if present, only on jaws. . . 



Subgenus : Alosa p. 64. 



b. Oblong or suboblong. Border of upper jaw 

 without incisure. Height generally more than 

 3, if less the dentition is complete (exc. mela- 

 nura). Teeth, if complete, on jaws, palatines, 



pterygoids and tongue Subgenus: Harengula p. 68. 



i. Subgenus Amblygaster Bleeker. 

 Synopsis of the species. 



I. Maxillary reaches to below frontmargin of eye or 

 nearly so, 14 15 postventral abdominal scutes. 



a. A pearl-coloured longitudinal band, often with 



a series of dark spots; 30 gillrakers C. (A?) leiogaster p. 61. 



b. No lateral band, 40 gillrakers C. (^4.) sirm. p. 62. 



II. Maxillary distinctly distant from frontmargin of eye, 

 12 postventral abdominal scutes; no lateral band, 



28 gillrakers C. (A?) clupeoides p. 63. 



i. Clupea (Amblygaster) leiogaster (C. V.). 



Sardinella leiogaster Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XX. 1847, p. 270. 

 Clupea sirm Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 425. (partim). 

 Clupea (Amblygaster) leiogaster Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 102. 

 Clupea liogaster Klunzinger, Abh. Zool. Botan. Ges. Wien XXI. 1871, p. 598. 



B. 6; D. 17 18; A. 18 2O; P. 16 18; V.8; L. 1.42 44; 

 L. tr. 10 12. 



Elongate, dorsal and ventral profile nearly equal, height 

 about 4 l / 2 4 2 / 3 , head 4 4% eye 3 ! / 3 3 ! /2 a ^ tt: ^ e snorter 



