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5257. Sandakan Bay. March 21, 1908. Length, 108-138 mm. 11 examples. 



Two examples. Sebatic Island, Borneo. October 1, 1909. Length, 41-53 mm. 



21259, 21260. Tifoe Bay, Bouro Island. Length, 78-85 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 51981. Negros, Philippines. Dr. Bashford Dean. Length, 82-111 



mm. 4 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 56031. Mindanao, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (4225). 



Length, 205 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 56065. Luzon, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (3231). Length, 



190 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 56308. Cavite, Philippines. Dr. G. A. Lung. Length, 95-143 mm. 



2 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No 72222. Iloilo, Philippines. R. C. McGregor. Length, 126 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72515. Cavite, Philippinues. Length, 151-153 mm. 2 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72516. Batavia, Java. 1909. Bryant and Palmer. Length, 212- 



125 mm. 2 examples. 

 2 examples. A.N.S.P. Calicut, India. James Hornell. Length, 145-155 mm. 



Genus NEMATALOSA Regan 



Nematalosa Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 313, 1917. (Type, 

 Clupea vasus Bloch, designated by Jordan, Genera of Fishes, pt. 4, p. 560, 

 1920.) 



Mouth toothless, subterminal or inferior, transverse, its cleft form- 

 ing an angle. Maxillary slender, terminally slightly expanded and 

 curved downward; dentary edge reflected outwards in front of 

 maxillary end; one supplemental maxillary. Veterbrae 43, Scales 

 44 to 50 in lateral series, 14 to 21 transversely. Dorsal rays 13 to 

 18, with scaly basal sheath and last ray prolonged in filament. Anal 

 rays 18 to 24. Ventral rays 8, below or little before dorsal. 



Coasts and rivers of Asia and Australia, from Arabia to Japan 

 and New South Wales. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a'. Second suborbital with oblique antero-inferior edge, leaves naked area above 

 lower preopercle limb. 



b\ Depth 2 to 21/2 ; A. 20 to 22 come 



h\ Depth 2% to 3. 

 c\ A. 19. 



d\ Depth 2% arabica 



d^. Depth 3 elongata 



(f. A. 21 to 23; depth 3 japonica 



a'. Second suborbital covers cheek, front edge vertical and lower edge horizontal 

 and in contact with lower preopercle limb nasus 



NEMATALOSA GOME (Richardson) 



Vhatocsus come (Russell) Richaedson, Voy. Ereius and Terror, Fishes, p. 62, 

 1846 (type locality: Western Australia; Indian Ocean). 



Chatocssiis come Richardson, Ichth. Voy. Erebus and Terror, Fishes, pi. 38, 

 figs. 7-9, 1846.— Klunzingeb, Arch. Naturg., vol. 38, p. 43, 1872 (Murray 

 River). 



