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cluster spreads over cheek, another radiating also at lower angle 

 of preopercle and humeral venules well developed over at least 3 

 scales. Gill rakers 158 + 200, finely setiform, little longer than gill 

 filaments, equal eye. Notch above and below bony knob along inner 

 edge of gill opening. 



Scales 46 or 47 in median lateral series to caudal base and 5 more 

 on latter ; 12 or 13 transversely, 14 to 16 predorsal. Scales firmly ad- 

 herent, narrowly imbricated. Scales with 2 to 4 incomplete or more 

 or less broken vertical parallel striae and dozen or more irregular 

 horizontal apical marginal lines, mostly connected or obsolete; circuli 

 vertically parallel, fine. 



D. IV, 13 or 14, first branched ray 2% to 234 in total head length; 

 A. II, 13, first branched ray 5% to 51/3; caudal 1% to 1%, well 

 forked, slender lobes pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 3% to 

 41/2 ; pectoral 1% to 1% ; ventral 3 to 4. 



Back slaty, sides and lower surface pale to whitish. Fins all pale. 



Arabia, Mombasa, Seychelles, India, Ceylon, Andamans, East In- 

 dies, Philippines. 



1 example. Iloilo, Panay Island. April 2, 1929. Length, 118 mm. Lient. H. C. 



Kellers. 

 1 example. Iloilo. April 6, 1929'. Length, 113 mm. Lieut. H. C. Kellers. 

 22945. Maricahan Island. .January 20, 190S. Length, 145 mm. 

 5380, 5381. Oton market, Iloilo. March 30, 1908. Length, 144-^1^6 mm. 

 18 examples. Philippines. Length, 147-165 mm. 



1 example. Shore above Iloilo River. June 2, 1908. Length, 60 mm. Lt. H. C. 

 Kellers. 



6 examples. Zamboanga, Mindanao. May 29, 1908. Length, lOQ-120 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 56066. Bacon, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (3607). Length, 



1^53 mm. As Harcnfjula moluccensis. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 56141. Bureau of Fisheries (3603). Length, 153 mm. Lower gill 



rakers 140. 



2 examples. A.N.S.P. Calicut, India. James Hornell. Length, 157-166 mm. 



SARDINELLA DAYI Regan 



Figure 16 



Sardinella dayi Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 381, 1917 (type 

 locality: Karwar, India). — Fowlee, Journ. Bombay Bat. Hist. Soc, vol. 30, 

 No. 1, p. 36, 1924 (Calicut). 



Depth 2% to 3 ; head 3 to 41/5, width 2i/i to 22/3. Snout 33/4 to 4 

 in head from snout tip; eye 3% to 4, equals snout, greater than in- 

 terorbital, adipose lids broad ; maxillary reaches I/3 to I/2 ""^ ^J^? ^X' 

 pansion li/^ to 1% i^^ ^ye, length 2% to 2i/^ in head from snout tip ; 

 no teeth ; interorbital 414, broadly convex, median ridge pronounced ; 

 branch of arborescent striae or venules from preorbital to preopercle 

 above, spreading backward above over opercle horizontally; large 

 cluster on cheek; small wider-set venules radiate down flange of 

 preopercle and few along humeral edge of gill opening horizontally. 



