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Gill rakers 68 + 90, finely lanceolate, about long as eye; gill filaments 

 % length of gill rakers. Inside edge of gill opening with single 

 notch. 



Scales 38 to 42 in median lateral series to caudal base and 4 or 5 

 more on latter ; 12 or 13 transversely, 12 to 17 predorsal. Abdominal 

 scutes 16 or 17+12 to 14. Scales firmly adherent, narrowly imbri- 

 cated. Scales with 2 vertical wide spaced parallel striae; 20 to 25 

 marginal striae apically; circuli fine, vertically parallel. 



D. Ill, 13 or 14, first branched ray 1% to 1% ii^ total head length ; 

 A. Ill, 17, first branched ray 3% to 4; caudal 1 to 11/5, strongly forked, 

 slender lobes pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 2l^ to 1%; 

 ventral 21/2 to 22/^. 



Back slaty brown. On level from upper eye edge till nearly op- 

 posite depressed dorsal end, 5 or 6 short obsolete vertical darker 



h.w.f: 



FiGDRE 16. — Sardinella dayi Regan : U.S.N.M. No. 10954, from Mauritius. 



streaks. Sides and lower surface pale to whitish. Dorsal and cau- 

 dal tinted grayish, tip of former dusky, other fins whitish. 

 India, Mauritius. 



U.S.N.M. No. 19954. Mauritius. Captain Page. Length 123 to 156 mm. Gill 



rakers 56+96, finely setiform. 

 3 examples. A.N.S.P. Calicut, India. James Hornell. Length 105 to 106 mm. 



SARDINELLA ALBELLA (Valenciennes) 



Kotmla albella Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 362, 1847 (type 

 locality: Pondichcrry). 



Clupea aliclla Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 424, 1868 (copied). 



Sardinella hrachysoma Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Haring), vol. 24, 

 p. 19, 1852 (type locality: Batavia, Java).— Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, p. 489, 1905 (Baram, Borneo).— Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 381, 1917 (Madras, Java. Amboina ; types of Sardinella 

 Irachysoma and Harenr/ula hi/psclosoina). — Fowler, Hong Kong Nat., vol. 2, 

 p. 117, 1931 (reference).— RoxAS and Martin, Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila 

 Tech. Bull. 6, p. 20, 1937 (reference). 



Clupea (Sardinella) brachysmna Bleekee, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, 

 pi. (9) 279, fig. 4, 1866-72. 



