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Length, 176 mm. When fresh in arrack faded, back bluish slaty, darker 

 above, sides and lower surface silvery. Head mostly silvery. Fins pale, 

 pectoral with rudimentary ray dusky at base. 



The following young clupeids are likely the present species: 



1 example. Balamban, Cebu. April 2, 1908. Length, 25 mm. 

 1 example. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. April 22, 1908. Length, 22 mm. 

 1 example. San Vicente Harbor, Luzon shore. November 13, 1908. Length, 

 27 mm. 



Genus ETRUMEUS Bleeker 



Etrumeus Bleekeb, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 25, p. 58, 1853. 



(Type, Clupea micropus Schlegel, monotypic.) 

 Perkinsia Rosa Smith, Amer. Nat., Feb. 1891, p. 153. (Type, Perkinsia othonops 



Rosa Smith, monotypic.) 

 Montalbania Fowleb, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 85, p. 244, 1934. 



(Type, Etrumeus albulina Fowler, orthotypic.) 



Body rather elongate, scarcely compressed. Eye entirely covered 

 with adipose lids. Mouth moderately wide, terminal. Supple- 

 mentary maxillary very rounded. Teeth sparse on maxillary and 

 lower jaws; patches of villiform teeth on vomer, pterygoids and 

 tongue. Gill rakers long. Pseudobranchiae present. Branchioste- 

 gals 15. Scales cycloid, entire, very deciduous. Anal rays 9 to 11, 

 rays very short and low and last one slightly enlarged. Ventral en- 

 tirely behind dorsal. 



Species few, without a silvery lateral band. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ MoNTALBANiA. Body deeper, depth 4i/^ to 5; gill rakers 15+25; lateral 

 scales 40 to 42 albulina 



a". Etrumeus. Body more elongate, depth 5*^ to 7 ; gill rakers 13 to 16+33 to 

 36; lateral scales 44 to 56 micropus 



Subgenus Mont Albania Fowler 



Distinguished from subgenus Etrumeus by its deeper body, slightly 

 larger scales and fewer gill rakers. 



For Heraclio R. Montalban, in appreciation of his studies on 

 Philippine fishes. 



ETRUMEUS ALBULINA Fowler 



FiGUBE 14 



Etrumeus albulina Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 85, p. 244, 

 fig. 7, 1934 (type locality: Hollo, Philippines; East Indies). — Roxas and 

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



Depth 43^ to 5; head 31/3 to 33^, width 21/2 to 2%. Snout 2% to 3 

 in head measured from snout tip; eye 3 to 3%, 1% to 1% in snout, 

 greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches % to % to eye, expansion 

 3 to 3% in eye, length 24^ to 3% in head from snout tip; teeth fine. 



