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103. Stoleplioras japonicus (Houttuyn). 



Kibinago ; Kibunai\<rashi. 

 AtJurina japonica Houttuyn, Verb. Holl. Maatsch. wet Haarl., XX, pt. 2,. 



1782, p. 340. Nagasaki. 

 Dibtrib. — Southern Japan. . . 



Genus Amblygaster Blacker. 



Amblygastcr Bleeker, Journ. Ind. Arch., Ill, 1849, P« 7-- 



Sardinia Poey, Meniorias, II, i860, p. 311. {Sardinia psndohispanica 



Poey). 



Type Amblygaster cliipeoides Bleeker. 



107. Amblygaster melanostictum (Tenuninck & Schlegel). 



Iwashi ; Maiwashi ; Oiwashi ; Hirago (Prov. Tosa) ; Hirameiwashi ; Hirare ; 

 Yatsume ; Mai wo ; Morokuchi. 



Cliipea mclanosticta Temminck & Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1846, p. 



237, pi. CVII, fig. 3. Nagasaki. 

 Distrib. — Shores of southern Japan, China and Kore ; Otaru ; Misaki Siganii. 



(Snyder ms.). 



108. Amblygaster immacnlatimi (Kishinouye). 



Hoshinashi-iwashi. 

 Chtpca iuiuiaculata Kishinouye, Journ. Imp. Fish. Bureau, XIV, No. 3, 1907, 



p. 96, pi. XIX, fig. I, pi. XXI, fig. 4. Saga, Kiusiu ; Anioy ; Swatow,. 



China. 

 Distrib. — S.iga, Kiusiu ; Anioy ; Swatow. 



Genus Ilisha Gray. 



Platygastcr Swainson, Classif. Anim., II, 1S39, P- 294 {Cliipea af ricana 



Bloch. The generic name Platygastcr preoccupied). 

 IlisJia (Gray) Richardson, Ichthyol. China, in Proc. Brit. Assoc, 1846, p. 306. 



Type Ilisha abnormis (Gray) Richardson. 



109. Ilisha elongata (Bennett). 



Hira; Hira-konoshiro. 

 Alosa elongata Bennett, Life of Raffles, 1830, p. 691. Sumatra. 

 Distrib. — Indian seas, north to Nagasaki and Wakanoura ; Korea ; China. 



Genus Clupea (Artedi) Linnceus. 

 Clupca sp. Artedi, Genera, 1738. 



