FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 623 



Sardina ocellata Regan, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, p. 167, 1906 (Natal). 

 Harengula punctata (not Valenciennes) Bleetkek, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. 



(Japan), vol. 25, p. 49, 1853. 

 Alausa musica Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliiladelpliia, 1854, p. 199 (type 



locality: Caldera Bay, Chile) ; U. S. Naval Astronom. Exped. Chili, p. 246, 



pi. 31, figs. 1-4, 1855. 

 Alausa fimbriata (not Spratella fimbriata Valenciennes) Knee and Stein- 



DACHNEB, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-uat. Kl., vol. 54, 1866, p. 386, 



fig. 15, 1867 (Valparaiso, Chile). 

 Clupea advcna Phiixippi, Arch. Naturg., vol. 45, p. 161, pi. 10, 1879 (type lo- 

 cality: Chile). 

 Clupea immaoulata Kishinouye, Journ. Imp. Fisher. Bur. Tokyo, vol. 14, p. 96, 



pi. 19, fig. 1, 1907 (type locality: Saga, Kiusiu ; Amoy; Swatow, China). 

 Amblygaster immactilatum Johdan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4. 



p. 106, 1909 (Takao).— MoRT, Journ. Pan Pacific Res. Inst, vol. 3, p. 3, 



1928 (Fusan, Korea). 



Depth 41/2 to 6 ; head 314 to 31/3, width 2% to 2%- Snout 3% to 

 3% in head from snout tip; eye 3% to 414, ly^ to lyo in snout, 

 greater than interorbital, broad adipose lid largely covering eye; 

 maxillary reaches 1^4 to y^ in eye, expansion 1% to I34 in eye, length 

 214 to 2% in head from snout tip; no teeth; interorbital 214 to 6%, 

 scarcely elevated, largely level ; top of head, cheek, and opercle venu- 

 lose, with 4 radiating striae on front part of opercle from above. 

 Gill rakers 50+100, finely setiform, equal eye; gill filaments % of 

 gill rakers. 



Scales 44 to 50 in median lateral series to caudal base and 5 to 7 

 more on latter; 13 transversely, 18 or 19 predorsal. Abdominal 

 serrae 20 to 21 + 15. Scales with 5 to 7 transverse marginal parallel 

 striae above and below, rarely more than 1 complete; circuli very 

 fine, vertical, parallel, none apical where edge fringed. 



D. in, 14, 1, first branched ray 1% to 2 in total head length ; A. m, 

 13, I, first branched ray 4 to 41/2; caudal I14 to ly^, forked, broad 

 lobes triangularly pointed ; least depth of caudal peduncle 4 to 4% ; 

 pectoral 1% to 1% ; ventral 2y8 to 3. 



Back drab brown, also occiput. Sides and lower surface of body 

 silvery white. Dorsal and caudal brownish, little darker terminally, 

 other fins whitish. Iris silvery white. Many examples show row 

 of small dark spots just below dark color of back along and within 

 upper part of whitish area of sides. 



Natal, Cape of Good Hope, China, Formosa, Japan, Korea. Also 

 the eastern Pacific shores of America. 



U.S.N.M. No. 22533. Shitachi, Japan. Japanese Government. Length, 185-198 



mm. 2 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 44888. Japan. Japanese Government. Length, 173-195 mm., 



caudal broken. 3 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 48191. Tanakomai, Japan. S. Nozawa. Length, 193 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 49468. Tokyo. Albatross collection. Length, 143-181 mm. 2 



examples. 



