58G BULLETIN 10 0, u:nited states national museum 



Clupea (Sarengula) dispilotiotus Bleekeb, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Nderland., vol. 6, 

 p. Ill, pi. (3) 261, fig. 3, 1872 (Singapore, Banlia, Bawean).— Weber and 

 Beattfort, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 2, p. (>(], 1913 (Kota 

 Baru, Borneo; Kangean). — Hardenberg, Treubia, vol. 14, livr. 2, p. 218, 

 1933 (Batavia). 



Sardinella dispilonotus Suvatti, Index Fish. Siam, p. 9, 1937 (reference). 



Depth 2% to 3; head 31/2 to 3%, width ^Yg to 21/3. Snout 31/2 to 

 3% in head from snout tip ; eye 3 to 31/3, greater than snout or inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches 14 to I/3 in eye, expansion 1% to 1%, 

 length 2% to 2^4 in. head from snout tip; teeth very minute, only 

 those in front of mandible distinct ; very fine teeth on palatines and 

 tongue; interorbital 4 to 4^/4, but very little convex or largely level 

 medially; bones of cranium striate and side of head with radiating 

 venules. Gill rakers 15 or 16+34 to 36, finely lanceolate, I14 in 

 eye; gill filaments % of gill rakers. 



Scales caducous, 35 to 37 (pockets) in median lateral series; 10 

 or 11 transversely; 10 or 11 predorsal. Abdominal serrae 14 or 15 + 

 11 to 13. Scales with 4 transverse or vertical striae; circuli as very 

 fine transverse parallel striae, none apically where surface entire and 

 without pits or pores. 



D. Ill, 14, I or III, 15, I, first branched ray II/3 to 1% in total head 

 length ; A. iii, 13, i to in 16, i, first branched ray 4 to 4% ; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2% to 2% ; pectoral V/s to 2% ; ventral 1% to 2 ; 

 caudal 3l^ to 31/2 in rest of body. 



Back and upper surface drab gray, sides and below silvery wliite. 

 On back below last dorsal rays and black saddle-like spot on upper 

 caudal peduncle behind depressed dorsal another similar, both 

 blotches usually with gray or ocellated whitish ring. Dorsal and 

 caudal grayish, lower fins whitish. 



Singapore, East Indies, Philippines. 



A very handsome little fish, the scales caducous, largely silvery 

 white and strongly marked with the ocellated black saddlelike 

 blotches on the back, a feature which immediately distinguishes it 

 from all other Indo-Pacific clupeoids. It is rather indifferently 

 figured by Bleeker, as the first black blotch appears lateral though 

 in all my specimens it is dorsal on the back or as if the dorsal fin 

 divides it in half. Furthermore, Blocker's figure lacks much of the 

 detail of the head. 



2 examples. Catbalogan, Samar. April 15, 1908. Length, 104-106 mm. 

 17 examples. Tacloban market. July 25, 1908. Length, 74-85 mm. 

 4 examples. Sandakan Bay, Borneo. March 21, 1908. Length, 80-90 mm. 

 2 examples. Sandakan Bay. March 2, 1909. Length, 74-80 mm. 



