588 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



HARENGULA BULAN (Blecker) 



Clupalosa iulan Bleekeb, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Madura), vol. 22, p. 12, 1849 

 (type locality: Madura Strait near Bangcallang, Kammal and Surabaya, 

 Java). 



Clupea (Harengula) hulan Bleekeb, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 6, p. Ill, 

 1866-72 (Java and Madura). — Webeb and Beaufobt, Fishes Indo- Australian 

 Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 73, 1913 (compiled). 



Clupea hulan ? Vinciguekba, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 3, vol. 10, 

 p. 619, 1926 (Sarawak). 



Harengula bulan McCuiiOCH, Austral. Mus. Mem., vol. 5, p. 39, 1929 (North 

 Australia ) . 



Clupea koival (not Riippell) GiJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 450, 

 1868 (Zanzibar, Pinang, Amoy, type of Clupalosa lulan). — Klunzinger, 

 Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, p. 599, 1871 (types).— Eleea, Cat. Fauna 

 Filip., vol. 1, p. 583, 1895 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz). — IsiiiKAVifA and 

 Matsuuba, Prelim. Cat. Fishes Mus. Tokyo, p. 7, 1897. 



Clupea (Clupalosa) kowal Bleekeb, Atlas Icbtb. Ind. N^erlaud, vol. 6, pi. 

 (8) 266, fig. 5, 1860-72. 



Sardinella hrachysoma (not Bleeker) Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, p. 501, 1904 (Padang) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, vol. 79, p. 257, 1927 (Santa Maria, Orani, Orion). 



Sardinella hypselosoma (not Bleeker) Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadel- 

 phia, 1905, p. 489 (name only, on above) ; 1911, p. 206 (above materials). 



Harengula argyrotaenia (not Bleeker) Bean and Weed, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 42, p. 591, 1912 (Batavia, Java). 



Sardinella perforata (not Cantor) Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 19, 

 p, 382, 1917 (type of Clupalosa iulan). 



Depth 3 ; head 3%? width 21/2. Snout 414 in head from snout tip ; 

 eye 314, greater than snout or interorbital, adipose lids broadly cov- 

 ering eye ; maxillary reaches l^ in eye, expansion 1/2 ©ye, length 2i/8 

 in head from snout tip; no teeth, palate apparently edentulous; 

 interorbital 4l^, nearly level; cheeks venulose, radiating venules on 

 opercle. Gill rakers 22+40, finely lanceolate. 



Scales 34 in median lateral series to caudal base and 4 more on 

 latter; 9 transversely, 15 predorsal. Abdominal serrae 18 + 11, edge 

 very cultrate. Scales with 2 wide-set, transverse or vertical striae; 

 circuli as fine parallel vertical striae basally, none apical. 



D. ni, 13, first branched ray 1% in total head length; A. iii, 16, 

 first branched ray 31/2 ; least depth of caudal peduncle 214 ; pectoral 

 1% ; ventral 2; caudal 2% in rest of body, forked. 



Owing to formalin largely brown, faded, except slightly darker 

 shading on back due to minute dusky dots, general appearance uni- 

 formly dull. Iris neutral gray or slate. Fins all uniformly brown, 

 caudal with dusky shading terminally. 



Red Sea, Zanzibar, India, Pinang, East Indies, Philippines, Amoy. 

 The interesting specimen described above agrees with Bleeker's ac- 

 count of Clupalosa hulan, which was based on an example 145 mm. 

 long and later figured as Clupea (Clupalosa) hoioal. Bleeker gives 



