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Depth 2% to 314 ; head 4 to 4%. Snout not longer than diameter 

 of eye, which 4 to 5 in head; maxillary reaches Vs in eye; opercle 

 width y2 its depth; parietal ridges narrow, covered with smooth 

 skin with age. Lower gill rakers 60 to 80. 



Scales 45 in medial lateral series; 14 or 15 transversely. Ventral 

 scutes 16 to 18 + 11 to 15. 



D. 17 to 20 ; A. 18 to 21 ; caudal lobes with age nearly twice long 

 as head; ventrals below middle or front part of dorsal. 



Length, 350 mm. (Regan.) 



East Indies. 



MACRURA ILISHA (Buchanan-Hamilton) 



Clupanodon ilisha Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 243, 382, pi. 

 19, fig. 73, 1822 (type locality: Ganges estuaries, Patua, Goyakarra, Cal- 

 cutta, Dhasa). 



Alausa ilisha Cantos, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, p. 1282, 1849 (com- 

 piled). — Bi£EKER, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Haring.), vol. 24, p. 33, 1852 

 (part). — Knee, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 331, 1865 (Ceylon). 



Clupea ilisha Gunthee, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 445, 1868 (part). — 

 Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 640, pi. 172, fig. 3, 1878 (Tigris, Sind, India, 

 Burma) ; Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 376, fig. 115, 1889.— 

 Lloyd, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 1, p. 221, 1907 (Akyab). — Tibant, Service 

 Oc^anogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 6* note, p. 118, 1929 (Cochin China). 



Clupea (Alosa) ilisha Steindachnee, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, vol. 11, p. 228, 1896 

 (Rangoon). 



Eilsa ilisha Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 306, 1917 (Persian 

 Gulf to Burma). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 85, 

 p. 246, 1934 (reference). 



Clupea palasah Cuvier, R^gne animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 320, 1829 [on Palasah 

 Russell, Fishes of Coromandel, vol. 2, p. 77, pi. 198, 1803 (type locality: 

 Vizagapatam)]. — GiJNXHEE, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 7, p. 445, 1868 

 (Ganges and Cochin). 



Alausa palasah Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 432, 1847 (Bombay; 

 Pondicherry ) . — Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Sci., vol. 15, p. 345, 1849. — ^Dat, 

 Fishes of Malabar, p. 235, 1865. 



Clupea (Alosa) palasah Steindaohner, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, vol. 11, p. 229, 

 1896 (Rangoon). 



Depth 2% to 3 ; head 3^4 to 3%. Snout long as or longer than 

 eye, which 4% to 7 in head; maxillary reaches below hind part of 

 eye or beyond ; opercle width from little more than % to % its depth ; 

 parietal ridges narrow, covered with smooth skin with age. Lower 

 gill rakers 120 (young) to 220. 



Scales 45 to 48 in medial lateral series; 17 to 20 transversely. 

 Ventral scutes 17 to 19 + 13 or 14. 



D. 18 to 20; A. 18 to 21 ; ventrals below front part of head; caudal 

 about long as head. Vertebrae 47. 



Length, 350 mm. (Regan.) 



Persian Gulf, India, Ceylon, Burma. 



