PISCES ABDOMINALES. CLUPEA. 
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The colour very different from that of the herring; the upper parts being of a yellowish-white, the rest 
silvery. The fins glassy, with a yellowish tinge. 
Length six inches and a half. 
REMARKS. 
This species in the want of ventral fins, and in having two rays only in the branchial membrane, agrees with 
the Clupea Sternicula of Linneus, but by no means with the Gasteropelicus described by Gronovius to which 
reference is made, Linn. S. N. p. 524. 
It may be further remarked, that both the Sima and Sternicla of Linneus are omitted by Gmelin. 
No. CXCIV. 
Clupea cor pore oblongo; pinna anali radiis quadraginta; macula ad marginem superiorem 
operculi. 
The Clupea with with an oblong body ; an anal fin of forty rays ; and a spot at the 
upper edge of the operculum. 
Called by the Natives Poorwa. 
B. . D. 13. P. 13. V. 7. A. 40. C. 20 . 
The body oblong, scales large, deciduous. 
The head large, compressed; the front declivous, grooved, rostrum obtuse. Mouth oblique; jaws rough 
like a file. Eyes middle, large, iris silvery. Opercula smooth, the posterior lamina acuminate, above which on 
the lateral line is a roundish dark spot. 
The trunk comes nearest in form to No. CLXXXIX. a fish bearing nearly the same name; but there is no 
reverted, serrated, maxillary process; no prickle before the dorsal fin ; and the large squamae at the pectoral 
and ventral fins are wanting. The abdomen is straighter, and the latei'al line more conspicuous. 
The Jins. The dorsal, ventral and anal fins as in No. CLXXXIX.; the pectoral acuminate in the middle; 
the caudal fin bifid. 
The colour. My memoranda here defective, as also in respect to the branchial membrane. 
Length seven inches and a half. 
No. CXCV. 
Clupea corpore ovato ; maculis parvis obscuris , in serie , supra lineam lateralem . 
The Clupea with an ovate body ; and a row of small, obscure spots, above the lateral line. 
Called by the Natives Keelee. 
B. v. D. 15. P. 15. V. 8. A. 18. C. 20. 
This species differing in its exterior shape, and somewhat in the colour, from the Kowal, No. CLXXXVI. 
agrees nearly in other respects with the description given of that fish. 
The body is broader, shorter, more ovate; the eyes larger; the nostrils not in a groove; the lateral line 
supreme, and (as in the Kowal) hardly discernible. 
