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to 1% in eye, length 2 to 21/3 in head from snout tip ; closed mandible 

 slightly protrudes; interorbital 4 to 51/5, nearly level; venules on 

 cheek few and weak, few also at occipital and humeral regions. 

 Gill rakers 30 to 36 + 62 to 64, finely lanceolate, equal gill filaments 

 or 1% in eye. 



Scales 36 or 37 in median lateral series to caudal base, partly 

 caducous; 11 transversely, 14 predorsal. Abdominal serrae 18 + 12 

 or 13. Axillary ventral scale % length of fin. Scales with 6 trans- 

 verse striae of which several may be incomplete medially; apical 

 surface with numerous pores or pits and edge fimbriate. 



D. IV, 13, I or 14, I, first branched ray 1% to I1/2 in total head 

 length; A. 11, 16, i to 18, i, first branched ray 3% to 4; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2% to 2V3; pectoral ly^ to 11/2; ventral 2^5 to 

 2% ; caudal 3 to 3% in rest of body. 



Back slate gray, sides and below silvery white. Fins brown. 

 Dorsal and caudal little darker, lower fins whitish. 



China. Reported from Luzon and Manila by Elera. Although 

 externally very similar to Harengula zunasi this species differs in 

 its much more numerous gill rakers. 



U.S.N.M. No. 57631. "Japan" [locality doubtless China]. P. L. Jouy. Length, 

 113-135 mm. Lower gill rakers 63. As Harengula mohiccensis and Haren- 

 gula zunasi. 2 examples. 



1 example. U.S.N.M. Fiji. U. S. Exploring Expedition. Length, 64 mm., 

 caudal fin damaged. 



U.S.N.M. No. 82799. Fiji. U. S. Exploring Expedition. Length, 73 mm., 

 caudal tips damaged. Type of Harengula fijiensis. 



A.N.S.P. Nos. 52925 to 52929. Hongkong. Henry W. Fowler. April 1929. 

 Length, 130-146 mm. 



HARENGULA DOLLFUSI Chabanaud 



Harengula dollfusi Chabanaud, Bull. Inst. Oct5anogr. Monaco, No. 627, p. 1, 

 fig. 1 (gill raker, tongue), fig. 2 (scale), 1933 (type locality: Gulf of Suez). 



Depth 4 to 5; head 4 to 5. Snout 31/2 to 3% in head; eye 31/2 to 

 3%5 subequal with snout, greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches 

 V3 in eye ; adipose eyelids well developed ; teeth not developed ; arbo- 

 rescent venules on cheek, side of head and suprascapula. Lower gill 

 rakers 53 to 56. 



Scales 40 to 44 in lateral series ; 12 transversely. Abdominal scutes 

 17 or 18 + 14. 



D. 18 or 19 ; A. 19 to 21 ; caudal deeply bifurcate ; pectoral rays 15 ; 

 ventral rays I, 5, inserted opposite fourth or fifth dorsal ray. 



Color in formalin upper jaws, end of mandible, dorsal region, and 

 part of eye gray brown. Opercle more or less dark. Poorly defined 

 blackish spot immediately behind angle of opercle. Bases of first 

 three dorsal rays black, extending nearly to end of first ray, rest of 



