ON THE ICHTHYOLOGY OF THE SEAS OF CHINA AND JAPAN. 309 



p. 382. pi. 12. f. 1. Cuv. Regn. An. ii. p. 323. Clupea vittargentea, 

 Lacep. v. p. 424, 458, 461, exclus. syn. Clupea nattoo vel nettooli, Russ. 

 187. Atherina australis, White, Voy. New S. Wales, 196. f. 1. Bad. 

 B. 10 ; D. 16 ; A. 23 ; C. 19|- ; P. 13 ; V. 7. Length of spec. 3f inches. 



John Russell Reeves, Esq. presented several examples of this fish to the British Museum. 

 The species is ranged by Cuvier among the Anchovies, whose bellies are not toothed ; but 

 the specimens show six teeth before the ventrals as fine as hairs. None exist behind these 

 fins. An adipose substance fills an angle before and behind the eye as in the Mackerels. 



Hab. Seas of China, Australia and India. 



The Stolephore japonois of Lacepede, or the Atlierina japonica of Houttuyn, Act. Haarl. 

 xx. p. 340, is probably the above species, with the rays of the dorsal imperfectly counted ; 

 and it is possible that the fish of which a notice from the ' Description of Animals ' follows 

 after CI. flosmaris, p. 303, may also be an Anchovy, though it is not represented as having a 

 projecting nose. 



Notopterus kapirat, Lacep. ii. p. 189, 190. Gymnotus notopterus, Pall. 

 Spic. vi. pi. 6. f. 2. Clupea synura, Bl. Schn. p. 426. Mystus karipat, 

 Gray, Hardw. 111. Ind. Zool. pi. 91. f. 2. Icon. Hard. Malac. Ined. 246. 



Schneider states that he examined two dried examples of this fish, one from India, the 

 other from China. He particularly notices the smallness of the ventrals, so that it could not 

 be the pengay of Renard, f. 90, which he saw, as that has long ventrals, nor, as he is silent 

 about spots on the tail, is it so likely to have been the Mystus chitot of Pennant, • View of 

 Hindostan,' t. xi. {Mystus chitala, Ham. Buch. p. 236, 382 ; Gray, Hardw. 111. Ind. Zool. 

 pi. 9 J. f. 1). 

 I Hab. Seas of China and India. 



Coilia grayii, Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulphur, p. 99. pi. 54. f. 1 & 2. 



Clupea mystus, Osbeck, Voy. ii. p. 25. Engl. tr. ; Linn. Amcen. Ac. iv. t. 3. 



f. 12. Mystus clupeoides, Lacep. v. p. 466, 467. Icon. Reeves, a. 14; 



Hardw. Malac. 252. Chinese name, Fung we, "Phoenix tail" (Birch); 



Fung ne (Reeves) ; Fung mi (Bridgem. Chrest. 3). Bad. B. 10 ; D. 12 ; 



A. 86 ; C. 20; P. vii. et 10; V. 7. (Spec. Hasl. Mus.) Genus, Adam, 



Temm. et Schl. 



A specimen was brought from the Chinese seas by Captain Dawkins, R.N., and presented 

 to the museum at Haslar. 



Hab. Chinese seas. Canton. 



Coilia playfairii, M'Clelland (Chcetomus), Calc. Journ. iv. plate 

 Polynemus, Descript. of Anim. p. 198. fig. 150; Adara, Temm. et Schl. 

 Icon. Reeves, /3. 26 ; Hardw. Malac. Chinese name, Matse (Birch) ; Ma- 

 chai (Reeves). Bad. B. 9; D. 12; A. 70 ad 80; C. 20; P. vi. et 11 ; 

 V. 7. (Spec. Br. Mus.) 



Specimens exist in all the collections of Chinese fishes that we have seen. The scales are 

 used in the manufacture of artificial pearls, and the fish is eaten, when pickled, by the 

 Chinese. A Japanese specimen exists in the British Museum and is labelled "Adara" by 

 the authors of the ' Fauna Japonica.' It agrees with Coilia grayii in the number of its anal 

 rays, but has the form of C. playfairii and the same number of free pectoral rays. Its num- 

 bers are D. 12 ; A. 86 ; C. 21 ; P. vi. et 14 ; V. 7. 



Hab. Chinese seas. Chusan. Yang tze kiang. Canton river. Hong Kong. Japan. 



Thryssa mystax, Bl. Schn. p. 426. t. lxxxiii. (Clupea). Cuv. Regn. An. 

 p. 323. Clupea malabaricus, Bl. 432; Bl. Schn. p. 425. Poorawah, 

 Russell, 189; Icon. Reeves, 138; Hardw. Malac. 236. Chinese name, 

 Tsing kwa (Reeves). Bad. B. 12 ; D. 13 ; A. 39 ; C. 19f ; P. 13 ; V. 7. 

 (Spec. Br. Mus.) Length of specimens 7-y and 9 inches. Length of 

 figure 9f . 



Mr. Reeves has deposited a specimen in spirits and also a varnished one in the British 

 Museum. We have not had an opportunity of comparing them with Indian examples, but 



