FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 629 



% of eye ; maxillary reaches 14 in eye, 1/2 in eye in young, expansion 

 1^4 to 2 in eye, length 2^4 to 2% in head from snout tip; upper jaw 

 with median notch, less distinct with age; interorbital 4 to 41/2? 

 nearly level; preorbital, suborbitals and opercle above venulose. 

 Gill rakers 23 + 38, lanceolate. 



Scales 35 or 36 in median lateral series to caudal base and 4 or 5 

 more on latter; 12 transversely, 14 or 15 predorsal. Abdominal 

 scutes 16 to 18 + 13. Scales with 1 to 4 vertical striae; very fine 

 circuli vertically parallel. 



D. Ill, 14, I or III, 15, I, first branched ray 1% to 1% in total head 

 length; A. ni, 17 or iii, 18, first branched ray 3% to 3%; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2i/io to 2%; pectoral I14 to 1%; ventral 

 2^8 to 214; caudal 3 in combined head and body to caudal base, 

 equals head in young. 



Back and head above, olivaceous, below silvery white. Iris sil- 

 very. Fins pale. Dorsal edge above and hind caudal edge dusky. 



Portuguese East Africa and Natal. 



A.N.S.P. 53059 to 53061. Durban, Natal. 1927. H. W. Bell Marley. Length, 



123-132 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. 53159 to 53162. Delagoa Bay. Portuguese East Africa. H. W. Bell 



Marley. July 1923. Length, 95-168 mm. 



MACRURA BREVIS (Bleeker) 



Alosa brevis Bleeker, Journ. Indian Arch., vol. 2, p. (633)638, 1848 (type lo- 

 cality: Bima, Sumbawa Island) ; Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 6, p. 116, 

 1866-72 (copied). 



Hilsa hrevis Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 30, 1928 (compiled). 



Alausa brachysoma (not Sardinella hracliysoma Bleeker) Bleeker, Nat. 

 Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 5, p. 527, 1853 (type locality: Padang, 

 Sumatra). 



Alosa brachysoma Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, p. 115, pi. 

 (4) 262, fig. 5, 1866-72 (Sumatra). 



Hilsa brachysoma Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 305, 1917 

 (Sumatra). 



Clupea platygaster GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 7, p. 448, 1868 (Bleeker's 

 Suraatran example). — Regan, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 20, pt. 6, p. 276, 

 1914 (Mimika River, New Guinea). 



Clupea (Alosa) platygaster Weber and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Australian Ar- 

 chipelago, vol. 2, p. 06, fig. 24, 1913 (Tjilatjap and Dirk de Vries Bay).— 

 Chevey, Inst. Oc(^anogr. Indochine, 19* note, p. 9, 1932 (Cochin China; 

 Cambodia; Laos). 



Alosa platygaster Roxas and Martin, Dept. Agri. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, 

 p. 21, 1937 (reference). 



Depth 21/2 ; head 3%. Snout long as eye, which 4 in head ; maxil- 

 lary reaches beyond eye center ; opercle width % its depth ; parietal 

 ridges expanded and striated. Lower gill rakers 100. 



Scales 42 in medial lateral series; 15 transversely. Ventral scutes 

 17 + 12. 



