308 Uv. C. T. rvcgan on the Chipeoid Fishes 



of Iieatl ; maxillary cxtondiiifr to below anterior part or 

 niiiKlle of eye; 200 or more gill-rakers on lower part of ante- 

 rior areli. 75 to 100 scales in a lonojifudinal ami 27 to H-i in 

 n transverse scries; ventral scutes 18-20 + 8-10. Dorsal 

 1-1-lG. Anal 20-24. Pectoral 13-14. Pelvics nearly 

 liolow orij^in of dorsal. Usually a darlc humeral spot, soine- 

 tin)es followed by a scries. 



Nortliern India, fioni Sind to Assam. 



fcSeveral examples, 120 to 140 mm. long. 



2. Gudus'a variegata. 



Clupea variegata, Dav, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 263 ; Fish. India, 

 p. 639, pi. clxi. fig. 4. 



Depth of body 2^ in the length, length of head 3|. 

 Snout a little sliorter than diameter of eye, which is 4^ la 

 length of head ; maxill.iry extending to below mitldle of eye; 

 more than 200 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. 

 i>0 scales in a longitudinal and 32 in a transverse series; 

 ventral scutes 19 + 10. Dorsal IG. Anal 23. Pectoral 14. 

 Pelvics nearly below origin of dorsal. Back with several 

 verlically exjjanded dark sj)Ots. 



Burtna. 



A single specimen, IGG nmi. in total length. 



According to Day, this species ditlcrs From G. chapra in 

 the deeper body, the coloration, and 24 to 29 instead of 21 

 to 24 anal rays. 



9. Clupaxodon, Lacep. 1803 *. 



Hist. Xat. Poiss. v. p. 408; Bleek. Atl. Ichth. vi. p. 112 (1872). 

 Konosirus, Jord. & Suyder, Proc. U.S. IS at. Mas. xxiii. 1900, p. 349. 



Mouth toothless, terminal or subterminal, with lateral 



* Of the six species placed by Lacepede in Chipanodon, Jordan (in 

 collaboration) has iit difft-rent times regarded as the genotype : l.jussinui 

 (bv designation), 2. pi/c/iardus (by elimination), and 3. thn'ssa (the first 

 species). But before this, in 1872, Bleeker (Atl. Ichth. vi. p. 11 2) stated 

 tliat Clupanodon thrma was tlie type of Lacepede's genus. Iteference to 

 Lacepede's work leaves no doubt that his species was tlie true Clupea 

 t/irissa of Linnaus, who took the name and the diagnosis resjiectively 

 from Osbeck and from Langerstroni. Lacei^ede took the specific name 

 from Linnaeus, and gave China as tlie first locality ; his description of 

 the pointed lower jaw and the notched upper jaw, and his statement 

 that the fish spawns in fresh water, apply quite well to the Chinese 

 species, but not to the Antillean .species (^Opisthoiiema oylinum), which 

 so many of the older writers believed to be the same fish. Consequently 

 I regard the Clupea thrixsa of Osbeck, Linnajus, and l^acepede, and not 

 the Clupea thrissa of Bloch and of Giinther, as tbe type of Clupanodon. 



