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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 
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aotbsencanacerreias per litora spargite muscum, 
Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes: 
Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores: 
Floribus et pictum, dive, replete canistrum. 
At vos, o Nymphe Craterides, ite sub undas; 
Ite, recuryato variata corallia trunco 
Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 
Ferte, Dez pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo.” 
N. Parthenit Giannettasi, Bol, 1, 
No. 103. JULY 1916. 
I.—The British Fishes of the Subfamily Clupeine and Related 
Species in other Seas. By CU. Tate Recan, M.A. 
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 
[Plates I-III. ] 
I. SysTEMATIC. 
In the ‘ Catalogue of Fishes’ Giinther included in the genus 
Clupea all the Clupeidee with mouth terminal, teeth minute 
or absent, a complete mid-ventral series of scutes, and the 
anal fin of moderate length, with less than 30 rays. 
This conception of a large, varied, and cosmopolitan genus 
is not well adapted for modern work on the relationships and 
distribution of the species, and it is generally recognized 
that the genus Clupea should be split up into several. But 
there is no general agreement as to the limits and contents 
of these genera, nor can there be until a thorough revision of 
the whole group has been made. 
The present paper is a systematic revision of the three 
genera—Clupea, Alosa, and Sardina—represented on the 
coasts of Britain. In his memoir on the Clupeoids of the 
Caspian Sea (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xi, 1913, pp. 472- 
480), L. Berg, Professor of Ichthyology in the Moscow 
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