1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes, 1285 



of the distance between the muzzle and the root of the caudal ; the 

 length of the longest rays, the 4th, and 5th, is \ of the 5 th dorsal ; 

 the extent of the base slightly exceeds that of the dorsal. The first 

 ventral ray is situated opposite the first dorsal ray, a little nearer the 

 first pectoral than the first anal ray ; the length of the fin is £ of that 

 of the head. The length of the pectorals is f of the head. Two 

 individuals of equal length occurred together at Pinang in October 

 1843. Both strikingly resemble a drawing of Buchanan Hamilton's 

 duplicate series, marked in Buchanan's hand writing : " Clupea champil, 

 B" This drawing is evidently the original of the indifferent copy in the 

 Illustr. of Indian ZooL, which is the foundation of Pellona champil, 

 Cuv. and Val. It is one of the few drawings which Buchanan has 

 omitted to describe in his work upon the fishes of the Ganges. 



Gen. Engraulis, (Cuvier 1817) Valenciennes 1848. 



Mouth cleft far behind the eyes; muzzle projecting, pointed; 

 ethmoid bone advancing in front of the jaws ; intermaxillaries soldered 

 to the maxillaries, hid beneath the muzzle ; vomer narrow with a few 

 teeth on the anterior part ; palatals and pterygoids narrow, bristling 

 with minute teeth, or rough ; gill-opening very large ; body rounded or 

 compressed like a knife-blade ; abdomen trenchant or toothed. 



Engraulis brownii, (Gmelin). 



"Menidia, corpore subpellucido," Brown: Jamaica 141, Tab. XEV. 



Fig. 3. 

 Argentina, Gronov. Zoophyl. 112, No. 350. 

 Atherina japonica, Houttuyn : Act. Haarl. XX. 340 1 

 Atherina brownii, Linne : Syst. 1397. 

 Atherina australis, White : Voyage, 196, Fig. 1. 

 Atherina (Clupea) brownii, Bloch-Schneider. 

 Stolephore commersonien, Lacep. V. 382, Tab. XII. Fig. 1. 

 Clupea vittargentea, Lacep. V. 424, 458, 461, (Excl. Syn.) 

 Russel CLXXXVII. Nattoo. 

 Atherina menidia, Shaw V. 131. 

 Commersonian Atherine, ibid, PI. 113, Fig. 1. 

 Atherina japonica, Shaw V. 132 1 



