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largely smooth. Gill rakers 115 + 180, fine, setiform, 5 in head; gill 

 filaments % gill rakers. 



Scales 40 in median lateral series to caudal base and 5 more on 

 latter; 15 transversely, 18 predorsal. Abdominal serrae 18+14. 

 Axillary ventral scale % length of fin. Caudal apparently without 

 alar scales. Scales with 9 or 10 transverse waved convex striae; 

 circuli fine, vertically parallel, apically without circuli but with 

 many horizontal parallel grooves to cutaneous uneven edge. 



D. IV, 15, 1, first branched ray 214 in head ; A. iii, 16, i, first branched 

 ray 5; caudal 1^^, deeply forked, lobes rather slender and lower 

 apparently longer ; least depth of caudal peduncle 314 ; pectoral 1% ; 

 ventral 3. 



Back and upper surfaces of head olivaceous. Sides and lower 

 surface slivery whitish. Iris pale or whitish. Dorsal creamy bas- 

 ally and apically, with horizontal broad diffuse dusky or gray-brown 

 transfusion. Caudal brownish. Pectoral creamy, terminally deep 

 brown. Anal and ventral whitish. 



China. Reported from the Philippines by Elera. 



U.S.N.M. No. 57621. "Japan" [doubtless China]. P. L. Jouy. Length, 385 mm., 

 caudal euds broken, 



MACRURA SINENSIS (Linnaeus) 



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

 China) ; ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 525, 1766 (copied). — Bonnateree, Tableau Ency- 

 clop. Ichth., p. 188, 1788 (China).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linnaeus, vol. 1, p. 

 1408, 1789 (China).— -WALBAUM, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 40, 1792 (copied).— 

 Bloch, Naturg. ausland. Fische, vol. 9, p. 38, pi. 405, 1795 (East Indies, 

 Japan, Tranquebar). — Fokster, Fauna Indica, p. 16, 1795. — Schneideie, 

 Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 424, 1801 (China). 



Clupea (Alaiisa) sinensis Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, p. 405, 

 1876 (Sambas, Borneo). 



Clupanodon sinensis LacepI:de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, pp. 468, 471, pi. 11, fig. 

 2, 1803 (Asia; not America). 



Hilsa sinensis Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 592 (Shang- 

 hai), p. 598, 1930 (Hong Kong; note) ; vol. 85, p. 246, 1934 (reference) ; 

 List Fish. Malaya, p. 28, 1938 (reference). 



Alansa toll Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 435, 1847 (type locality: 

 Coromandel, Pondicherry). — Cantor, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, p. 

 1281, 1849 (Pinang, Malay Peninsula, Singapore). 



Alosa toll Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N('^erland., vol. 6, p. 113, pi. (8) 265, fig. 

 4, 1866-72 (Java, Sumatra, Pinang, Singapore, Banka). 



Clupea toll GtJNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 7, p. 447, 1868 (East Indies). — 

 Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 641, pi. 162, fig. 2, 1878 (Bombay, 

 India) ; Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 377, 1889. — Duncker, Mitt. 

 Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, p. 186, 1904 (Kuala Lumpur ) .—Pillay, 

 Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, p. 355, 1929 (Travancore). — Tirant, 

 Service Oct^-anogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 6' note, p. 119. 1929 (Cochin China). — 

 Hardenberg, Treubia, vol. 13, livr. 1, p. 110, 1931 (Bagan Si Api Api) ; vol. 

 15, livr. 3, p. 231, 1936 (Padang, Tlkarbay, Borneo). 

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