FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 689 



Septipinna telara Chetvey, Inst. Oc^anogr. Indochine, 19" note, p. 8, 1932 



(Cochinchina) (error). 

 Setipinna truncata Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 292, 1839 (on 



Clupca telara Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, p. 241, pi. 2, fig. 72, 1822). 

 Setipinna megalnra Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 292, 1839 



(on Clupea pliasa Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, p. 240, 1822). 

 Engraulis hrevlfilis Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. 54, 1848 (type 



locality: Bengal). 



Depth 4 to 43/5; head 51/2 to 5%, width 21/2 to 23/5. Snout 43^ to 

 5% in head; eye 3% to 4I/2, greater than snout or interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches gill opening, expansion 1% to 13/^ in eye, length 

 equals head, with minute, uniserial teeth its whole edge; similar 

 mandibular teeth smaller; few minute asperities on palatines ante- 

 riorly; interorbital Z% to 4, convex; cheek and opercles smooth. 

 Gill rakers 14 or 15 + 18, slender points, 11/5 to I14 in eye; gill fila- 

 ments 11/3 to 1% in eye. 



Scales 58 to 60 ? (pockets) in median lateral series to caudal base 

 and 3 ? more on latter; 17 transversely, 30 predorsal. Caudal base 

 scaly. Abdominal scutes 16 + 6. Scales with 4 to 6 short basal mar- 

 ginal striae and 5 or 6 transverse vertical striae ai^ically ; circuli fine- 

 ly concentric on basal half of scale, none apically. 



D. II, 12, I, with procumbent spine before origin, first branched 

 ray 1 in head ; A. iii, 69, i to iii, 74, i, first branched ray 1% ; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2 to 2%; ventral 21/2 to 2%; caudal (dam- 

 aged) 414 in rest of body, well forked ; pectoral 1% to caudal base, 

 with uppermost ray long filament reaching well beyond depressed 

 dorsal. 



Pale brownish on back. Sides and entire lower surface silvery 

 white, evidently where scales fallen silvery gray. Iris silvery 

 white. Fins all pale or whitish, dorsal and caudal little grayish 

 terminally. 



India, Burma. Though both of my specimens in poor preserva- 

 tion they clearly show the characters of this species. 



U.S.N.M. No. 44724. Rangoon, Burma. L. Fea. Length, 163 mm., caudal 



tips damaged. As Engraulis telara. 

 1 example. A.N.S.P. Ganges River, India. Dr. Marmaduke Burrough. 



Length, 103 mm., caudal tips damaged. 



SETIPINNA TATY (Valenciennes) 



Engraulis taty Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. 60, 1848 (type lo- 

 cality: Pondicherry; Malacca). — Cantor, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 

 18, p. 1288, 1849 (Pinang; Malay Peninsula). — Bleekee, Verh. Batav. 

 Genootsch. (Haring), vol. 24, p. 36, 1852 (Batavia; Surabaja; Sambang; 

 Kammal) ; (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 74, 1853 (reference). — Dat, Fishes of 

 Malabar, p. 240, 1865.— GiJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 400, 

 1868 (Bengal, Pinang, Java).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 628, pi. 158, 

 fig. 5, 1878 (Orissa) ; Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 393, 1889.— 



