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5 the same in both, the dorsal The fins. The position and shape of the fins are I only higher, thicker, and
more falcate.
The colour. The upper part of the head and back greenish, less changeable than in the Kowal; the
face and sides bright silver; the belly pearl-white. The fins glassy; the dorsal, anal, and caudal of a liglit
greenish cast.
The lengtb six inches; but they grow to eight or ten.
REMARKS.
With the smell and flavour of the herring, they are much inferior to the Kowal. They are les abundant, and
less in re,nest. The spots have some resemblance to the Clupea .Mosa; but that fish has eight branchial
rays, and differs in several other respects.
No. CXCVI.
C l u p e a corpore ovato; radio postremo pinna; dorsi longissimo, setaceo.
T h e C lu p e a w ith an o v a te b o d y ; th e h in d e r ra y o f th e dorsa l fin v e r y lo n g , a n d setaceous.
Clupea Tkrissa L in n . S. df. p . 523.
Bloch. P I. 4 0 4 .
C alled b y th e N a tiv e s Ko,me.
B . V. D . 1 6 . p . 1 6 . V. 9 . A . 2 5 . C. 2 4 .
T h e body ovate, compressed ; scales somewhat orbicular, imbricate, deciduous.
The bead small, declivous, compressed, without scales; the front smooth, rostrum obtuse, projecting over
the mouth. Mouth nearly transverse, small, jaws hardly extractile, without teeth; no lips. Tongue very
small, smooth, fixed; the anterior part of the palate slightly tuberculate. Eyes middle, orbicular; iris pearl-
colour ; nostril in the middle between the orbit and the rostrum, divided by a valve. The branchial opercula
seemingly three-leaved, the posterior somewhat shield-form, smooth, splendent; the membrane easily dis-
covered ; the aperture large, somewhat angular.
The trunk. T he back arched, at first carinate, afterwards a little convex; the breast and abdomen carina-
serrated; the sides and tail compressed. The denticles of the exterior branchim very long. Lateral line middle.
Straight. The anus remote.
The fins. The dorsal middle, a little falcate, the last ray setaceous, reaching to the tail; the pectoral low,
nearly as long as the head, acuminate above; the ventral half as long as the pectoral, opposite to the beginning
of the dorsal; the anal consists of twenty five rays, nearly of equal length; the caudal fin bifid.
The clour. The crown of the head greenish, the rest white; the upper part of the opercula gilded; the
back changeable, less brilliant than in the Kow a l; several dusky horizontal fillets above the lateral line hardly
visible when the fish is dead; the sides of a pearl-colour mixed with gold, changeable; the abdomen white;
the dorsal and caudal fins have a yellowish tinge.
Length seven inches.
No. CXCVU.
Clupea corpore ova to ; radio postremo p in n a dorsi setaceo, lo n g o ; ossiculis memhrana branchialis
lalissimis.
T h e Clupea w ith a n ovate b o d y ; th e la s t ra y o f th e d o rsa l fin lo n g a n d s e ta c e o u s ; th e
ossicles o f th e b ra n c h ia l m em b ra n e r em a rk a b ly b ro a d .
Clupea X a su s , Bloch. PL 429.
C alled b y th e N a tiv e s P edda Kome.
B . v. D . 16. P. 15. V. 8. A . 22. G. 24.
T his, with a strong resemblance to the last, is held by the fishermen to be a distinct fish. The rays of the
branchial membrane remarkably broad ; the nostrils distant from each other; the anal fin more falcate; eight
rays only in the ventral; and the lateral line more obscure. These variations appeared to be constant; in
other respects, the description of the last fish may serve equally for the present.
Lengtb, nine inches six lines.
Neither of them are common at Vizagapatam.
No. CXCVIII.
Clupea corpore ovato; p in m caudal squamosa; squama longa, acuminata, a i pinnas
pectorales.
T h e Clupea w ith an ovate b o d y ; th e c audal fin s q u am o u s ; a lo n g p o in te d sca le at th e
p e c to ra l fins.
C alled b y th e N a tiv e s P alasah.
B .y 'l . D . IS . P . 1 5 . V. 9 . A . 2 0 . G. 2 8 .
Tun body broader, rounder, and thicker than usual in this genus; but the breast and abdomen eariuate and
serrate The scales large, loose, and singularly extended on the anal and caudal fin.
The bead large, without scales, compressed, and, when the mouth is shut, obtuse; the front declivous,
depressed; the ristrura blunt. The mouth a little oblique, lips thin; the jaws equal, the upper, as usual, covers
the under, but has a dent at the point for the reception of a small pro.uhentnce on the lower jaw : both are
without teeth. Tlte tongue and palate smooth. The branchial opercula large, round, w.thout scales,
splendent, the membrane has six ossicles. The branchial dentioles setaceous. No visible lateral Ime. The
anus remote.
T h e > s The dorsal middle, of eighteen declining rays; the pectoral low, with a long, curve po.nted
squama a. the root, consists of fifteen rays, acuminate, slightly f.leate, and three inches long; the venmtl
opposite to the middle of the dorsal, acuminate above, has nine rays almost one half shorter; the anal
remote with twenty declining, short ray s ; the caudal fiu bifid, and very remarkably squamous.
Thera ;«,-. The crown a dark grcvn, the face and opercula splendent white, the back changeable blue.