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D. 17 or 18 ; A. 20 to 21 ; caudal long as head ; ventrals below 

 middle of dorsal. 



A dark liumeral spot. Dorsal and caudal with dark edges. 

 Length, 120 mm. (Regan.) 



East Indies. 



Subgenus Tenualosa Fowler 



Parietal ridges narrow and covered by smooth skin with age. 

 Maxillary variable. Caudal lobes equal or longer than head. 



MACRUKA REEVESH (Richardson) 



Figure 17 



Alosa reevcsii Richabdson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 305, 1S46 (type locality: 



Chinese Seas). 

 Alausa reevesii Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Polss., vol. 20, p. 437, 1S47 (Macao). — 



Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Phllom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 5, p. 107, 1881 (Swatow). 



<*-4^a 



Figure 17. — Macrura reevesii (Rioliardson) : U.S.N.M. No. 57C21, from "Japan" (probably 



China). 



Clupea reevesii Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 446, 1868 (type; 

 China). — Peters, Mouatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1880, p. 92G (Ningpo). — 

 GuNTHEB, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 4, pp. (219) 229, 1889 (Kiu 

 Klang). — Eleba, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 583, 1895 (Luzon, Cavite, 

 Santa Cruz). — RuxxEat, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 64. 



Hilsa reevesii Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 306, 1917 (Shang- 

 hai and Kiu Kiang). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 85, 

 p. 246, 1934 (rel'oience). — Kimura, Jouru. Slianghai Sci. Inst, sect. 3, vol. 3, 

 p. 104, 1935 (Ting Ming, Yautze-Kiang). 



Alausa pala^ali (not Cuvier) Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 306, 1846 

 (China Sea). — Cantor, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, p. 2S2, 1S49 (on 

 Richardson's specimen ) . 



Clupea palasah GiJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 1, p. 445, 1868 (copied). 



Depth 314 ; head 3%, width 21/2. Snout 4 in head; eye 6%, 1% in 

 snout, 1% in interorbital, adipose lids largely cover ej-e; maxillary 

 reaches opposite hind eye edge, expansion ll^ in eye, length 2i/^ in 

 head; front of upper jaw with deep median notch; interorbital 4I/3, 

 convexly elevated; preopercle twice deep as long, with some vertical 

 parallel venules, others on top of head, bones of head otherwise 



