304 report — 1845. 



Fam. Salmonim:. 

 Pteroglossus altivelis, Teram. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. 



Two specimens exist in the British Museum labelled as above. They measure 7 inches 

 and 4£ inches respectively. 

 Hab. Japan. 



Fam. ClupeidejE. 



Clupea isingleena, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 60; Hardw. Malac. 219. 

 Chinese name, Tsing lin, "Blue scale" (Birch); Tsing lein, "Blue 

 scale " (Reeves) ; Tsing lun (Bridgem. Chrest. 82). Rad. B. 5, upper 

 ones broad; D. 15; A. 21, slender; P. ; V. 8. (Spec. Br. Mus.) 

 Length 5\ inches. 



John Russell Reeves, Esq. presented a specimen of this fish to the British Museum. It is 

 a short high fish with a rounded back and a very acute belly, which is serrated by sixteen 

 teeth before the ventrals and ten behind them. The height is contained thrice in the length 

 to the base of the caudal, or thrice and three-quarters when that fin is included. The curve 

 of the back is slight, that of the belly very considerable, and attaining its apex under the be- 

 ginning of the dorsal. The length of the head is one-fifth less than the height of the body. 

 The mouth is small and terminal, and the maxillary, which is oval and obtuse at the lower 

 end, reaches to beneath the middle of the eye ; near its articulating head, a pdrtion of the 

 oval is deficient on the upper side only. There are no teeth on the jaws, but the lining of 

 the mouth and the oval disc of the tongue are studded with minute papillae. There are ten 

 rows of scales in the height of the body and forty in a row. The ventrals are under the fore- 

 third of the rather large dorsal, and all the fins are scaly. The scales of the back are bright 

 grass-green with silvery edges ; lower down they are more silvery with pale ultramarine blue 

 shadings. The fins are pale asparagus-green, with a yellow tint on the pectorals, and the 

 head is mostly silvery with green shadings, orange iris and gamboge edges to the gill-pieces. 

 There is a dark honey-yellow spot on the humeral bone. 



This fish has more resemblance to the Kowal or Kowarloo of Russell (186) than to any 

 other figure in his book, but he enumerates the dorsal rays as 18. They may however, on 

 a comparison of specimens, prove to be the same. It is not unlike Bloch's figure (pi. 405) of 

 Clupea sinensis, but there are no indications of the black bars on the dorsal and caudal in 

 Mr. Reeves's figure. 



Hab. Chinese seas. 



Clupea nymph^a, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, (3. 25 ; Hardw. Malac. 222. 

 Chinese name, Chang yaou lin, " Long-waisted scale" (Birch); Chang 

 yaou lin, " Long fine waist" (Reeves) ; Cheung iu lun (Bridgem. Chrest. 

 83). Rad. B.6(vel7?); D. 17; A. 15(^/16); C.15f; P. 18; V. 9. 

 (Specimen in the Br. Mus. brought from Canton by Mr. Reeves.) 



The head forms a fourth of the length of the fish, caudal excluded, or rather more than a 

 fifth part including that fin. Both back and belly are acute, and the thickness of the body 

 equals half its height. The back rises in a very gentle curve from the snout to the dorsal, 

 and descends still more gently to the caudal. The curve of the belly is more convex from 

 the tip of the lower jaw to the front of the pectorals, but posteriorly it corresponds with that 

 of the back. The end of the under jaw forms the extremity of the head. Eye near the pro- 

 file. The disc of the maxillary is an oval approaching nearly to a circle, with a short, slender 

 articulating process : its lower end comes under the middle of the eye. The intermaxillary 

 forms the border of the upper jaw, the maxillary merely touching the corner of the small 

 orifice with its rounded shoulder. The centre of the dorsal is a little anterior to the middle 

 of the length, caudal excluded, and the ventrals are attached under the middle of the dorsal. 

 There are forty or forty-one scales in a longitudinal row. The belly is strongly serrated be- 

 hind the ventrals, but before these fins the points of the keeled scales are more depressed. 

 The pointed scaly process over the pectoral equals the fin in length. 



Colour of the back light duck-green with silvery borders to the scales. The sides silvery 

 shaded by faint bluish-green. Head silvery with green shadings and some rich umber tints 

 on the hind-head and humeral bones. Fins asparagus-green with darkish edges to the 

 caudal. The pectorals are wood-brown. 



This fish agrees generally with the figure of Clupanodon sinensis of Lacepede (v. pi. 11. 

 f. 2. pp. 408, 471), but does not correspond in the numbers of the fin-rays. It may neverthe- 

 less be the same ; but as the names oichinensis and sinensis have been too liberally applied 



