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abdominal serrae 30, though his figure showing 17+10 may have had 

 more and D. iv, 15. 



U.S.N.M. No. 72509. Batavia, Java. April 2, 1909. Bryant and Palmer. 



Length, 84 mm. As Harengula wrgyrotaenia. 

 A.N.S.P. Nos. 27437 and 27438. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. 



Hiller. Length, 147-158 mm. As Sardinella brachysonia and SardincUa liypse- 



losoma. 



HARENGULA LIPPA Whitley 



Harengula maccullochi Whitley, Ree. Austral. Mus., vol. 18, p. 143, fig. 2, 1931 

 (type locality: Port Hedland, Northwestern Australia). 



Depth 31/10 1 head 3%. Snout 34^ in head from snout tip ; eye 

 2%, greater than snout, adipose lids broad; maxillary reaches l^ in 

 eye, length 2i/^ in head from snout tip ; minute teeth on jaws and 

 palatines; vertex of head and to less extent, opercles striated. 



Scales less than 40; 12 transversely; 11 predorsal. Scapular area 

 smooth, like sides of head. Body covered with large striated scales 

 with vertical lines interrupted in middle. Abdominal scutes 15 + 15. 



D. 18, origin nearer snout tip than caudal peduncle, first branched 

 ray 1% in total head length; A. 21, fin height 5, last rays not en- 

 larged; caudal 3I/2 in rest of fish; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 2% in total head length; pectoral 1%, rays 17; ventral rays 8, fin 

 21/^ in total head length, origin behind dorsal origin. 



General color silvery, dark grayish above. Top of head, tips of 

 jaws and lobes of dorsal and caudal dusky. 



Length, 126 mm. (Wliitley.) 



Northwestern Australia. Said to be allied with Harengula hulan, 

 differing notably in having more anal rays. 



HARENGULA OVALIS (Bennett) 



Clupea ovalis Bennett, Mem. Life of Raffles, p. 690, 1830 (type locality: Su- 

 matra). — GtJNTHEE, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 413, 1868 (copied). 



Harengula ovalis Fowler, List Fish. Malaya, p. 26, 1938 (reference). 



Clupea punctata Rtjppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, p. 78, pi. 21, fig. 2, 1835 

 (type locality: Red Sea). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 7, p. 58, 

 1879 (South Seas). 



Harengula punctata Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 297, 1847 

 (Massauah, Red Sea). — Buseker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 

 25, p. (18)49, 1853 (Nagasaki); (Japan), vol. 26, p. 5, 1857 (Nagasaki); 

 Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl., vol. 3, No. 3, p. 6, 1858 (Japan). — Sauvaqe, 

 Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 493, 1891 (reference). — Regan, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 390, 1917 (Indo Pacific, East Africa, 

 Paumotus). — Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 114, 

 1925 (Natal; Delagoa Bay). — McCtjlloch and Whiti^ey, Mem. Queens- 

 land Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 132, 1925 (reference). — Whitley, Rec. Aus- 

 tralian Mus., vol. 16, p. 4, 1927 (Michaelmas Cay, off Cairns, North Queens- 

 land; Giza ; Solomons; and synonymy). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 

 10, p. 31, 1928 (Fate; Shortland Island; Jaluit; Suva ) .— McCulloch, Aus- 

 tral. Mus. Mem., vol. 5, p. 39, 1929 (reference). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop 



