FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 597 



Clupea (ParaJosa) nielmuirus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind N^erland., vol. G, pi. 



(11) 269, fig. 5, 1866-72. 

 Clupea (Ahiiisa) mclanura Martens, Prtniss. Exped. Ost.-Asien, vol. 1, p. 405 



1876 (Bangkok). 

 HarengulM mclanura Sattsage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 492, pi. 48, fig. 



4, 1891 (Reunion, Zanzibar, Vanikoro, Indian Archipelago). 

 ? Clupea latulus (not Valenciennes) Thiolliere, Fauna Woodlark, p. 207, 1857 



(Woodlark Island). 

 HarcnguJa (Paralosa) valenciennesi Bleekee, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amster- 

 dam, ser. 2, vol. 2, p. 300, 1868 (Waigiu). (No description.) 

 Clupea recMngeri Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., 



vol. 115, pt. 1, p, 1424, 1906 (type locality: Upolu). 

 Harengula vanicoris Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25 (1905), p. 187, 



1906 (on Alausa melanura Valenciennes). 

 Harengula sondaica (not Bleeker) Kendall and Goldsbokough, Mem. Mus. 



Comp. Zool., vol. 26, p. 243, 1911 (Nukuhiva, Marquesas Islands). 

 Sardinella jussieu (not Lacepede) Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 30, 



1928 (Nukuhiva material). 



Depth 4 to 414 ; head 3% to 3%, width 21/2 to 31/3. Snout 31/2 to 

 3% in head from snout tip; eye 314 to 3%, greater than snout or 

 interorbital, adipose lids narrow ; maxillary ^4 to Yo in eye, expansion 

 1% to 1% in eye, length 214 to 2% in head; no teeth; interorbital 

 5 to 51A, slightly elevated, largely level ; cheek and preopercle venulose, 

 opercle entire. Gill rakers 28 ? + 45, finely lanceolate ; gill filaments 

 % gill rakers, which % of eye. 



Scales (pockets) 39 or 40 in median lateral series to caudal base 

 and 5 more on latter ; 13 scales transversely, 13 predorsal. Abdominal 

 serrae 17 + 12. Scales all fallen. 



D. Ill, 12 or 13, first branched ray li/> to 1% in total head; A. n, 

 15, 1 or n, 16, r, first branched ray 4 to 4%^ ; caudal forked (damaged) ; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3 ; pectoral 14f. to V/g ; ventral 

 21/10 to 21/5. 



Back drab brown. Sides and lower surface gray to silvery white. 

 Dorsal and caudal pale gray brown. Iris whitish, also lower fins. 



Zanzibar, Reunion, India, Siam, East Indies, Philippines, Mela- 

 nesia, Micronesia, Polynesia. My account of this species in "The 

 Fishes of Oceania" differs somewhat as the depth is given at Sy^ 

 to 3% and the lower gill rakers 50. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 65861. Nukuhiva, Marquesas Islands. Albatross collection 1899. 



Length, 40 to 74 mm. 25 examples. As Harengula sondaica. 



HARENGULA ZUNASI Bleeker 



Harengula zunasl BLEEKint, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 26, pp. 5, 

 117, 1857 (type locality: Nagasaki) ; Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl., vol. 3, No. 

 3, p. 6, 1858 (Japan).— Is hikawa and Matsuura, Prelim. Cat. Fish. Mus. 

 Tokyo, p. 8, 1897.— Jordan and Starks, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, p. 193, 



1905 (Gensan, Corea). — Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Mus., vol. 31, p. 515', 



1906 (Port Arthur).— Jordan and Herre, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 



