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of the dorsal, and covering the ninth, tenth, and eleventh of 
them i it descends almost straight on its posterior edge, but 
presents a very strong dilatation in front, below the pectorals ; 
the third band is on the tail ; the fins are black, with the edge 
of the second dorsal, the caudal, the anal, and the pectorals 
white. 
The total length is one inch and two-thirds. 
Port Darwin. 
MELETTA SCHLEGELII. 
This species would be placed by Dr. Gunther in the section 
of Clupea, characterised by : minute teeth on the palate, none 
on the vomer ; root of the ventrals opposite to the middle of 
dorsal ■ height of body less than one-third of the total length 
without the caudal. 
This author, contrary to his habit, divides the species 
according to their habitat, but his only Australian species is 
Meletta Nova? Hollandia?, Cuv. and Val., which is very different 
from this. I cannot either place it with any of the Indian 
sorts of Clupea. 
Height of body three times and one-third in the length 
without the caudal, or a little over three times and a half to 
the central end of this fin. Head contained four times in the 
length (without caudal) ; eye twice and three-fourths in the 
head. 
The snout is considerably shorter than the diameter of the 
eye; the lower jaw much longer than the other; the maxillary 
extend to below the first third of the eye ; the cheeks and the 
two operculums are finely striated ; the lower profile is rather 
more convex than the upper one ; scales regularly arranged, 
rather firm ; they are strongly striated, with their margin finely 
crenulated ; dorsal of nineteen rays ; the end of this fin is at 
an equal distance to the snout, and to the end of the tail. The 
caudal is deeply forked, of sixteen long rays, with several 
shorter ones on each side ; anal of twenty-eight or twenty-nine 
rays ; the ventrals are small ; the pectorals nearly twice as 
long, of sixteen rays. 
The general colour is bright and silvery, with the back of a 
