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Scales with 1 to 6 transverse vertical striae of which only one com- 

 plete; circuli fine, vertically parallel. Humeral venules large. 



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

 length ; A. iii, 16, i, to in, 18, i or 11, 15, first branched ray 4 to 4% ; 

 caudal subequal with head to 3 iri rest of body, forked; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2i/^ to 3l^ in head; pectoral 1% to li^; ventral 

 2J,>to2i/5. 



Back neutral slate to bluish, with violet reflections, otherwise 

 largely silvery white. Snout tip above and mandible tip deeper 

 brown than slaty tint of head above. Iris and sides of head white. 

 Fins pale or whitish. Dorsal and caudal slightly darker and caudal 

 tips broadly blackish. 



Delagoa Bay, Mauritius, India, Andamans, East Indies, Philip- 

 pines, Hainan, China, Bonin Islands, Micronesia, Polynesia. 



2 examples. Baganga Bay, Mindanao. Seine. May 15, 1908. Length, 91-92 mm. 



2 examples. Mantaquin Bay, Palawan. April 1, 1909. Length, 54-58 mm. 



1 example (with 19954 U.S.N.M.) Mauritius. Capt. Page. Length, 125 mm., 



caudal ends broken. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 41560. Samoa. O. H. White. Length, 111 mm. As Sardinella 



vanicoris. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 52519. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries (07563). Length, 120 



mm., caudal tips broken. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 58045. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length, 123-130 mm. 5 



examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 65859. Papete, Tahiti. Bureau of Fisheries (05793). Length, 



99 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 65860. Fiji. Bureau of Fisheries (08887, 08888, 08817 to 08819, 



08825). Length, 110-135 mm. All poor specimens. 

 1 example. A.N.S.P. Tahiti. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 63157. Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa. July 1923. H. W. 



Bell Marley. Length, 152 mm. 



Subgenus Amblygaster Bleeker 



SARDINELLA SIRM (Walbaum) 



Clupea sirm Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 38, 1792 [on ForskSl, Descript. 

 Animal., p. 17, 1775 (type locality: Arabia)].— RiJppELL, Neue Wirbelth., 

 Fische, p. 77, fig. 1, 1835 (Red Sea, Massaua). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus., vol. 7, p. 425, 1868 (Zanzibar, Batavia, types of Sardinella leiogas- 

 troides). — Klunzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, p. 598, 1871 

 (Mozambique). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, pt. 16, p. 383, 1909 

 (Kingsmills). 



Clupea {Amblygaster) sirm Weber and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Australian Archi- 

 pelago, vol. 2, p. 62, 1913 (Tandjong Priok). 



Sardinella sirm Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, p. 770, 1905 

 (Negros) ; Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25 (1905), p. 186, 1906 (Apia).— Regan, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 284, 1917 (Zanzibar, Batavia, Celebes, 

 Misol, types of Sardinella leiogastroides and Clupea pinguis). — Fowler, 

 Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 31, 1928 (copied) ; Hong Kong Nat., vol. 2, 

 p. 119, 1931 (reference). — Herre, Journ. Pan-Paciflc Res. Inst., vol. 8, No. 



