FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 719 

 COILIA REBENTISCHII Bleeker 



Collia hchentischii Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl., vol. 5, No. 7, p. (2)5, 



1859 (type locality: Sinkawang, Borneo; error). 



Coilia 1-cbentischi Bleekee, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neerland., (Borneo), vol. 8, p. 27, 



1860 (Borneo). — Weber and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, 

 vol. 2, p. .51, 1913 (compiled). 



Coilia (Coilia) rebcntisclii Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, p. 140, 



pi. (8)256, fig. 3, 1866-72 (Borneo). 

 Engraulis grayi (not Bleeker) Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 333, 1865 (Java). 

 Coilia ramcarati (part) GtJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 402, 1868 



(type of Coilia behcntischii) . 



Depth 61/4 ; head 5%. Snout shorter than eye, slightly prominent; 

 eye about 5; maxillary not reaching hind preopercle edge, more or 

 less truncate behind. Scales 65 in medial lateral series ; 9 or 10 trans- 

 versely. Abdominal scutes 2 or 3 + 9 or 10. 



D. I, 14, more than twice nearer snout than caudal base ; A. 94, 1% 

 in body ; pectoral rays 28, 19 uppermost produced, far surpassing anal 

 origin ; ventral rays 7, inserted slightly before dorsal origin. 



Yellowish; back, dorsal, and anal dusky. Length, 125 mm. 

 (Weber and Beaufort.) 



Borneo, in estuaries. Only the type known. 



Subgenus Choetomus McClelland 



COILIA MYSTUS (Linnaeus) 



Clupea mijstus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 319, 1758 (type locality: 

 Indian Sea). — Osbeck, Reise Ost-Ind. China, p. 335, 1765 (China). — 

 Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 524, 1766 (copied). — Bonnateerb, 

 Tabl. encyclop. Ichth., p. 187, pi. 100, fig. 410, 1788 (Indian Seas) .— Gmeun, 

 Syst. Nat. Linnaeus, vol. 1, p. 1408, 1789 (copied). — Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 

 vol. 3, p. 43, 1792 (copied). — Foester, Fauna Indica, p. 16, 1795. — Schneideb, 

 Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 428, 1801 (Indian Seas). 



Engraulis niystus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. 73, 1848 (Chinese 

 drawing). 



Mystus mystus Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 66 (Swatow). 



Coilia mystus Jordan and Seale, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 67, p. 359, 1926 

 (Hong Kong; Port Arthur, Manchuria ).^ — Tanaka, Jap. Fish. Life Colours, 

 No. 49, 1933. 



Mystus clupeoides Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, pp. 466, 467, 1803 (type 

 locality: Sea of the Indies). 



Coilia clupeoides Gijnther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 404, 1868 (Chi- 

 nese seas). — Bleeker, Verh. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 18, p. 3, 1879 

 (Shanghai). — Kaeoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, p. 183, 1881 (Can- 

 ton). — Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-nat. Kl., vol. 102, 

 pt. 1, p. 237, 1893 (Swatow).— Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 581, 1895 

 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz). — Chabanaxh), Service Oceanogr. Peches, Indo- 

 Chine, 1' note, p. 8, 1926 (Cochinchina ; Pnompenh). — Tirant, Service 

 Oceanogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 6* note, pp. 115, 174, 1929 (Cochinchina, 

 Annam, Tonkin). — Borodin, Bull. Vanderbilt Marine Mus., vol. 1, art. 2, 

 p. 42, 1930 (Saigon). 



