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orbital; maxillary reaches slightly beyond pectoral origin, length 

 434 to 4% in combined head to caudal base ; interorbital 234 to 3% 

 in head, broadly convex. Gill rakers 18 to 20 + 22 or 23, finely 

 lanceolate, equals snout ; gill filaments equal % gill rakers. 



Scales thin, rather caducous, 70 to 75 in median lateral series to 

 caudal base; 10 transversely, 21 to 23 predorsal. Abdominal serrae 

 18 or 19 + 32 or 33. Scales with 1 to 3 basal striae joining reticula- 

 tions apically; circuli very fine, concentric, feeble or absent from 

 greater apical portion of scales. 



D. m, 12, I, first branched ray li/io to I14 in head, also low pro- 

 cumbent spine anterior to dorsal origin; A. 11, 100 or 102, first 

 branched ray 2% to 3; caudal IVio to 1%, ends in median point 

 behind; pectoral with uppermost rays ending in 6 long filaments, 

 reaching 1% to 3 their length to caudal base ; ventral 2 to 21/5 in head. 



Back pale brownish, sides and lower surfaces silvery white. Iris 

 white. Fins all pale brownish. 



China, Japan, Korea. 



U.S.N.M. No. 571S0. Japan. P. L. Jouy. Length, 222-254 mm. 4 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 62377. Port Arthur. J. F. Abbott. Length, 80-188 mm. 21 

 examples. 



COILIA MACROGNATHOS Bleeker 



Coilia macrognatlios Bleekeb, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, p. (409) 



436, 1852 (type locality: Pamaugkat, Borneo); Verb. Batav. Genootsch. 



(Haring.), vol. 24, p. 50, 1852 (Pamangkat) ; Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-N6erl., 



vol. 3, No. 6, p. 2, 1858 (Sinkawang, Borneo). — Mabtens, Preuss. Exped. 



Ost-Asien, vol. 1, p. 404, 1876 (Bangkok). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, vol. 87, p. 96, 1935 (Paknam; Bangkok) ; vol. 89, p. 132, 1937 



(Bangkok; Tachin). 

 Coilia (Chaetomus) macrognathus Bleekek, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 



6, p. 138, pi. (3)261, fig. 4, 1866-72 (Borneo). 

 Coilia macrognathus GiJNTHEB, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 406, 1868 



(type). — Weber and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 2, 



p. 49, 1913 (type).— HOBA, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, p. 174, 19^ 



(Nontaburi). — Vincigueeea, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 3, vol. 



10, p. 620, 1926 (Saravpak).— Hakdenbebg, Treubia, vol. 14, livr. 2, p. 217, 



1933 (Kumai River); vol. 15, livr. 3, p. 228, 1936 (Pontianak; Padang 



Tikarbay, Borneo). 

 CoiU macrognathus Suvatti, Index Fish. Siam, p. 16, 1937 (Gulf of Siam; 



Pak-kret ; Chonburi ) ( error ) . 

 Coilia macrognathus aequidentata Chabanaud, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 



vol. 30, p. 59, 1924 (type locality, "embouchures du fieuve de Saigon") ; 



Service Oc^anogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 1^ note, p. 8, 1926 (Cochinchina). 



Depth about 4; head 4% to 5. Snout prominent, long as eye; 

 eye 5 to 514 ; maxillary long, sword shaped, reaches far beyond 

 pectoral base, with row of alternating smaller and stronger teeth 

 on its whole border. Lower gill rakers 22, not quite 2 in gill fila- 

 ments, long as eye. 



