688 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Telaa melamochir Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris, ser. 7, vol. 5, p. 107, 



1881 (Swatow). (Error.) 

 Setipinna lighti (Herre) Wu, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, y. 



26, fig. 20, 1929 (type locality: Amoy). 



Depth 31/8 to 31/4; head 5, width 214 to 2%- Snout 5% to 534 

 in head ; eye 5, greater than snout, li^ to 1% in interorbital ; maxil- 

 lary reaches mandibular joint or preopercle ridge, expansion 1% to 

 114 in eye, length li/^o to 1% in head; teeth feeble; interorbital 4% 

 to 4%, broadly convex. Gill rakers T to 9 + 10 to 12, lanceolate, 

 equal eye ; gill filaments % gill rakers. 



Scales (pockets) 44 to 46 in median lateral series to caudal base 

 and 3 or 4 more on latter; 16 or lY transversely, 34 to 36 predorsal. 

 Abdominal scutes 20 to 22+8 or 9. Scales with 15 to 18 short, mar- 

 ginal, basal striae, apically with reticulations; circuli as fine, trans- 

 verse, close set striae basally, none apical on scale. 



D. ni, 10 or ni, 11, with procumbent spine before origin, first 

 branched ray 1 to li/jo in head; A. in, 46 or iii, 47, first branched 

 ray li^, origin slightly before dorsal origin; caudal 4% in rest of 

 body, well forked, broad lobes pointed; pectoral 4I/3 to 5; ventral 2 

 to 2% in head; least depth of caudal peduncle 2. 



Back drab to olive brown, sides and entire lower surfaces silvery 

 white. Fins all pale, grayish marginally. Pectoral dusky to 

 blackish basally, and on inner rays. Iris silvery white. 



Siam, East Indies, Cochin China, China. My examples agree 

 with Weber and Beaufort's figure and description largely, though 

 show more abdominal scutes. The pectoral filament in the larger 

 one reaches a little beyond ventrals. 



11732. Sandakan market, Borneo. March 2, 1908. Length, 244 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 48000. Cochinchina. Lyons Museum. Length, 193 mm. 



SETIPINNA PHASA (Buchanan-Hamilton) 



Cltipea phasa Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 240, 382, 1822 (type 

 locality: Brackish rivers of Bengal). 



Engraulis phasa Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. 59, 1848 (copied). 



Clupea telara Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 241, 382, pi. 2, fig. 72. 

 1822 (type locality: High up in the Ganges). 



Engraulis telara Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. 56, pi. 608, 1848 

 (Ganges mouth; Rangoon). — Bleekek, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Bengal), 

 vol. 25, p. (74)147, 1853 ( Calcutta ) .—GiJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., 

 vol. 7, p. 401, 1868 (Cachar and Hooghly). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 

 627, pi. 158, fig. 2, 1878 (Calcutta, Bengal, Orissa, Cachar, Burma, Manda- 

 lay) ; Faima British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 392, 1889. — Tirant, Service 

 Oc^anogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 6* note, pp. Ill, 174, 1929 (Cochinchina). 



Telara telara Fow^ler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1911, p. 220 (Ganges 

 River, India). 



Setipinna telara Jordan and Seale, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 67, p. 365, 1926 

 (Rangoon, Burma). 



