90 
Caput magnum subcubicum nudum, fronte abrupto declivi, rostro 
brevi lato emarginato, rictu oblique ascendente, mandibula in- 
feriore longiore: oculi minuti. Opercula integra cum toto capite 
inermia. 
Corpus antice crassum, postice compressum; cum capite clave- 
forme. 
Pinne omnes ample, nude. 
METOoOPIAS TYPHLOPS. 
D.44+14; A.44+7; P15; V.1 AD a Wicd crores 
os aa ah ese 3v.4+1, + VIII. 
Piscis admodum pusillus, nigricans, capite longitudinaliter exilis- 
sime striato. adit quatuor primi dorsales et anales cum primo 
ventrali simplices, sed minime spinosi; ceteris furcatis vel ra- 
mosis. 
Fam. CLurEiIp2£. 
Ciupea LATIcosta.—‘ Arenque a casta larga.” C. edentula ellip- 
tica, lateribus latis planis, dorso abdomineque equaliter convevis ; 
operculis suborbitariisque obsolete striatis, illis intus gulaque 
nigris : squamis lunatis, linea laterali obsoleta s. nulla; pinna 
dorsali centrali, anali subelongata, caudali lobis gracilibus angus- 
tis, pectoralibus operculo subremotis. 
Dees TA 1 ee PY By a Sy, Co ee ee 
5+4+1L+ Vill.’ 
M. B. 6 utringue. 
I had long since seen, and have often heard of this deep-sided, 
larger sort of Madeiran Herring, or ‘‘ Arenque,” from the fishermen, 
but only recently obtained an opportunity of examining it, and of 
discovering it to be a new species, nearest to the Pilchard; but dif- 
fering chiefly in its greater size, greater depth, approaching that of 
C. Leachii, Yarr., six, not eight-rayed branchial membrane, and in 
the production of the last two rays of the anal fin. Like the Pil- 
chard, it has the dorsal fin in the centre of gravity, and the sub- 
opercle cut square at the bottom. 
Fam. Gapipz#. 
Merlucius vulgaris, Cuv. 
The remarks upon the Madeiran Hake (Merlucius vulgaris, Syn. 
p- 189) at pp. 37 and 38 of my Supplement (Proceed. Zool. Soc. 
1840; Trans. ili. p. 15), and the idea of its distinctness as a species 
from the common British or Northern Hake, arose from tracing in 
the form of the dorsal and anal fins in the Madeiran fish, and in 
Salviani’s figure of the Mediterranean Hake, a very appreciable dif- 
ference from my friend Mr. Yarrell’s representation of the British 
Hake at p.177 of the second volume of the first edition of his 
‘Fishes.’ Having requested his attention to the subject, I learn, 
however, from the corresponding chapter of his second edition, that 
this difference is either inconstant or attributable to a fault in the 
