CLUPETD^. 
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hinder part of the dorsal, nearer to the anal than to the pectorals ; 
anal fin with 14 rays. ft Tii 
Form. ^ Log. Lower O^ocene : Eadoboj, 
49161-64. Three fine specimens, and one immature individual 
probably of this species. Purchased, 1878. 
Clupea sprattus, Linnaeus. 
1758. Clupea sprattus, C. Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, p. 318. 
1868. Clupea sprattus, A. Glinther, Catal. Fishes B. M. vol. vii. p. 419. 
Type. Eecent fish. 
A small slender species, the length of the head with operculai’ 
apparatus about equal to the maximum depth of the trunk. 
Vertebrae 47 to 49 in total number. Pelvic fins directly opposed to 
the origin of the dorsal, which comprises 15 to 18 rays; anal fin 
with from 17 to 20 rays. About 12 ventral ridge-scales behind 
the pelvic fins. 
Form. Log. Pleistocene and Eecent: Atlantic coasts of Europe. 
P. 5265-67. Three specimens in nodules from Glacial Clay, Bin- 
dalen, Norway. Presented hy Henry Tryon, Esq., 1887. 
The following specimens are not specifically determined:— 
P. 3831. Imperfect fish about 0*09 in length, labelled Clupea 
leptostea by Agassiz, apparently belonging to the species 
thus named without description in Neues Jahrb. 1835, 
p. 306, and Poiss. Foss. vol. v. pt. ii. (1844), p. 120^; 
Upper Eocene, Monte Bolca, near Verona. 
Ennislcillen Coll. 
21408 b. Another example of the same fish ; Monte Eolca. 
Purchased, 1847. 
37227. Imperfect smaller skeleton probably of the same species ; 
Monte Bolca. Purchased, 1863. 
28437. Contorted fish about 0*11 in length, with relatively small 
head ; Monte Bolca. Purchased, 1853. 
36337. Another specimen apparently of the same fish; Monte 
Bolca. Bean Coll. 
1 This undefined species is regarded as the type of a genus Ptericephalina 
by P. Lioy, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. vol. viii. (1865), p. 414. One specimen is 
wrongly identified with Esox vulpes by Volta, Ittiolit. Veronese (1796), pi. Ixiv. 
fig. 2. 
