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IVs in interorbital, adipose lids broadly cover eye ; maxillary reaches 

 1/2 to % in eye, expansion 1% to 2 in eye, length 2% to 2% in head 

 from snout tip; front of upper jaw with median notch; no teeth; 

 interorbital 3i/^ to 4l^, slightly elevated, level medianly; cheek as 

 measured from hind maxillary end to preopercle ridge twice deep 

 as long; cheek, preopercle, occiput and humeral region strongly 

 venulose. Gill rakers 50 + 95 to 130, setiform, equal eye; gill fila- 

 ments 214 in gill rakers. 



Scales 38 or 39 in median lateral series to caudal base and 5 more 

 on latter; 13 transverse, 10 to 15 predorsal. Abdominal serrae 18 + 13. 

 Ventral with axillary scale % of fin. Scales with wide-set transverse 

 vertical striae, variously complete; circuli as fine parallel vertical 

 striae, none on cutaneous apical portion which with horizontal, 

 parallel, marginal grooves. 



D. m, 15, I or iii, 14, i, first branched ray 1% to 2 in total head 

 length; A. in, 18, i, first branched ray 3% to 4%; caudal 1 to 1%, 

 deeply forked, slender lobes ending in narrow points ; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 3 to 31/5; pectoral I14 to 1%; ventral 2i/^ to 3. 



Back and occiput brownish, body otherwise white, with bright sil- 

 very reflections. Rounded dusky or neutral black humeral blotch 

 about size of pupil, followed by row of 4 or 5 paler and less distinct 

 smaller spots at same level and well spaced, but none beyond dorsal 

 fin. Dorsal and caudal pale brownish, former narrowly blackish 

 apically. Lower fins whitish. 



Aden, Zanzibar, India, Ceylon, Siam, Pinang, East Indies. 



U.S.N.M. No. 72499. Batavia, Java. Bryant and Palmer. 1909. Length, 143- 



170 irm. 6 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72500. Batavia, Java. Bryant and Palmer. 1909. Length, 140- 



147 mm. 3 examples. 



MACRURA DURBANENSIS (Regan) 



Clupea durbanensis Regan, Ann. Natal Gov. Miis., vol. 1, pt. 4, p. 4, pi. 4, 1906 

 (type locality: Durban Bay) ; vol. 1, pt. 3, p. 242, 1908 (Durban Bay).— 

 Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 6, p. 268, 1908-11 

 Watal, Durban). — Gilchrist, Marine Biol. Rep. South Africa, No. 1, p. 59, 

 1913 (Natal). 



Paralrtsa durbanensis Regan, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, p. 167, 1916 (Durban). — 

 Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 4, p. 297, 1917 

 (reference). 



iHlsa durbanensis Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 305, 1917 

 (Natal).— Barnard, Ajin. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. Ill, 1925 

 (Natal coast). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 195 

 (Delagoa Bay). — Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 1017, 

 1927 (Fowler's reference). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 

 86, p. 411, 1934 (Natal) ; vol. 87, p. 365, 1935 (Durban beach). 



Depth 2% to 2% ; head 314 to 4, width 2i/io to 2%. Snout 3% 

 to 4 in head from snout tip; eye 3i/^ to 3^/^, adipose lid covers last 



