PHYSOSTOMI. 
Pisces 34 
I Kupffer, C. Die Entwickelung des Herings im Ei. L. c. pp. 175-226. 
1 3 pis. 
. tJeber Laichen und Entwickelung des Herings im westlichen Ost- 
X see. L, c. pp. 23-25. 
\ Meyer, H. Beobachtungen iiber das Wachsthum des Herings im west- 
lichen Theile der Ost-see. L. c. pp. 227-252. 
i Mobius, K. Untersuchungen iiber die Nahrung der Heringe im J ahre 
X 1875-76. L. c. pp. 173 & 174. 
Synonymy and diagnoses of the Indian Clupeidce, with figures of nearly 
all the species, are given by Day, op. cit. pp. 623-651, pis. clvii.-clxvi. 
They belong to 14 genera. 
Clupea sindensis, sp. n., ? different from venenosa, C. Y. ; id. 1. c. p. 638, 
pi. clxiii. fig. 2, Seychelles, Sind, and Bombay. 
Engraulis. Synonymy and diagnoses of 14 known Indian species, with 
figures of 12 ; id. 1. c. pp. 625-630, pis. clvii. & clviii. 
Engraulis nasutus, sp. n., Castelnau, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. p. 51, 
Norman River. 
Brishania, g. n. A Clupeoid very near to Chatoessus^ allied by its long 
tapering maxillary to Gnathobolus, Guv. (Pristigaster) ; the hinder ray 
of the dorsal elongate. B. staigeri, sp. n., id. op. cit. ii. p. 241, pi. iii., 
Brisbane. 
Alosa vulgaris^ C. Y. Remarks on the branchial apparatus of this fish ; 
Gegenbaur, Morph. JB. iv., supplement, pp. 1-42, pi. ii. figs. 12 & 13. 
Record of . its capture in the Weser ; Linstow, Arch. f. Nat. xliv. p. 246. 
Etrumeus jacksoriiensis, sp. n., Macleay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. 
p. 26, pi. iv. fig. 1, Port Jackson. 
Albula conorrhynchus, Gthr., described from Lower California; Lock- 
ington, P. Cal. Ac. vii. [1876] p. 83. 
ALEPOCEPHALIDiE. 
Platytroctes, g. n. Body rather abbreviated, much compressed, and 
covered with small keeled scales; mouth of moderate width ; maxillary, 
intermaxillary, and mandible armed with a single series of small teeth ; 
palate smooth ; eye rather large ; dorsal and anal fins opposite to each 
other, on the tail, moderately long ; adipose fin none ; caudal forked ; 
pectoral small ; ventrals none ; the humeral arch terminates in the middle 
of the chest in a long projecting acute spine ; gill opening wide ; six 
branchiostegals ; gills very narrow ; pseudobranchiae present ; gill-rakers 
long, lanceolate ; pyloric appendages rudimentary. P. apus, sp. n., 
Gunther, Ann. N. H. (5) ii. p. 249, Mid- Atlantic. 
Bathytroctes, g. n. Body rather elongate, compressed, covered with 
scales of moderate size ; cleft of mouth rather wide, maxillary extending 
to below middle of the large eye ; intermaxillary and maxillary armed 
with a series of minute teeth, as is also the mandible ; vomer and pala- 
tine bones with similar teeth ; no teeth on tongue ; eyes very large ; 
dorsal and anal fins moderately long, the former behind the ventrals ; 
adipose fin none ; caudal forked ; gills very narrow, pseudobranchiae 
