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pterygoids and tongue. Gill membranes separate, free from isthmus. 

 Pseudobranchiae large. Branchiostegals 6, flat. Scales deciduous, 

 large, thin. Dorsal short, inserted opposite ventral or nearer snout 

 tip than caudal base. Anal very short, rays 9 to 15. 



Indo Pacific. Small, brilliant silvery little round herrings, with 

 small fins. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ Scales in lateral line 35 to 38 ; no silvery white lateral band. 



b\ A. 9 to 10 delicatulus 



&^ A. 11 to 12 alburnus 



a". Scales in lateral line 40 to 44. 



c\ No brilliant silvery white lateral band; A. 9 robustus 



c^ Brilliant silvery white lateral band present. 



d^. A. 13 japonicus 



d". A. 19 to 21 madagascariensis 



STOLEPHORUS DELICATULUS (Bennett) 



Clupea delicatnla Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 1, p. 168, 1881 

 (type locality: Maviritius). 



Spr-atelloldes delicatulns Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 464, 1868 

 (East Indies and Australia). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 6, 

 p. 96, pi. (6) 264, fig. 3, 1866-72 (Singapore, Banka, Celebes, Halmaheira, 

 Ternate, Aniboine, Saparoua, Banda). — Sohmeilts;, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, 

 No. 5, p. 37, 1874 (Samoa).— PEmERS, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 

 445 (Mauritius). — Alleyne and Maci.eay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 1, p. 350, 1877 (Darnley I.).— Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, 

 No. 7, p. 58, 1879 (Samoa). — IMacleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 6, p. 260, 1881 (reference).— PoHL, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, p. 39, 

 1884 (Samoa).— Kent, Breat Barrier Reef, pp. 302, 370, 1893 (Queens- 

 land).— Regan, Ann. Natal Gov. Mus., vol. 1, p. 242, 1908 (Kosi Bay). — 

 GiJNTHEE, Jour. Mus. Godeffroy, pt. 16, p. 383, 1909 (Samoa, Jaluit, Bon- 

 ham Islands). — ^Webek, Siboga Exped., Fische, vol. 57, p. 4, 1913 (Kan- 

 geang Island, Siau, Karkaralang, Salibabu, Obi Major, between Fan and 

 Gebe, between Gusi Bay and Ceram Laut, Saleyer, Tuir Island). — Webee 

 and BEAtTFORT, Fishes Indo-Australiau Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 20, 1913. — 

 Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, p. 296, 1917 (ref- 

 erence). — Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 110, 1925 

 (Zululand coast). — Chabanaud, Service Oc^anogr. P&hes Indo-Chine, 1* 

 note, p. 7, 1926 (Annam coast; Tonkin). — ^Thcant, Service Oc6anogr. Pgches 

 Indo-Chine, 6° Note, p. 122, 1929 (Cochinchina).— Hardenberg, Treubia, 

 vol. 14, livr. 2, p. 216, 1933 (Thousand Is. near Batavia ; Karimon Djawa ; 

 Bawean; Kangean Archipelago). — Heere, Journ. Pan-Pacific Res. Inst., vol. 8, 

 No. 4, p. 6, 1933 (Dumaguete) ; Fishes Her re Philippine Exped. 1931, p. 14, 

 1934 (Calapan; Culion ; Dumaguete; Sitanki). — Roxas, Philippine Journ. 

 Sci., vol. 55, p. 250, 1934 ( Bacon ) .—Herre, Mid-Pacific Mag., vol. 10, p. 

 163, No. 2, AprU-June 1935 (Pelew Islands). — Roxas and Martin, Dept. 

 Agr. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 23, 1937 (reference). 



Stolephorus delicatulus Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25 (1905), 

 p. 186, 1906 (Apia and Pago Pago). — Seale, Occ. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 4, 

 No. 1, p. 5, 1906 (Shortland Island, Solomons). — Evermann and Seale, Bull. 

 Bur. Fisher., vol. 26 (1906), p. 53, 1907 (Bulan, Bacon ) .—Kendall and Golds- 



