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Scales 58 to 62 in medial lateral series; 10 or 11 transversely. 

 Abdominal scutes 12 or 13 + 27 to 30, strongly spiniferous. 



D. 1-14 or 15, more than twice as near snout end as caudal ; A. 62 

 to 73, length 2 to 2i/4 in body length; pectoral rays 16 or 17, with 

 5 or 6 uppermost produced or surpassing anal origin; ventral rays 

 7, inserted just behind dorsal origin, almost twice as near subopercle 

 as anal. 



Silvery, back darker. Fins hyaline, front half of dorsal and 

 border of anal and caudal dusky. Length, 260 mm. (Weber and 

 Beaufort.) 



Siam, Borneo, in estuaries. 



COILIA GRAYII Richardson 



Coilia grayii Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Ichth., p. 99, pi. 54, figs. 1-2, 1844 

 (type locality: China Seas); Ichth. China Japan, p. 309, 1846 (Chinese 

 Seas; Canton). — Guntheb, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 405, 1868 

 (China).— Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 5, p. 107, 1881 

 (Swatow). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 581, 1895 (Luzon, Cavite, 

 Santa Cruz). 



Coilia grain Bleei<;eii, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 25, p. 18, 1853. — 

 Jordan and Seale, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 67, p. 361, 1926 (China, 

 Hong Kong). — Chabanaud, Service Oc^anogr. Indo-Chine, 1* note, p. 8, 

 1926 (Tonkin). — Tirant, Service Oceanogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 6" note, 

 p. 174, 1929 (Hu6). 



Coilia (Chaetomus) grayii Bleekek, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, p. 

 148, 1874 (copied; Canton; Hong Kong ?). 



Mystus grayi Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 66 (compiled). 



Coilia clupeoides (not Lac^p^de) Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 58, p. 307, 1920 (Soochow). 



Depth 4% to 5%; head 51/3 to 6, width 2 to 21/3. Snout 4 to 

 4% in head ; eye 4% to 5, 1 to li^ in snout, 1% to 2 in interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches well beyond pectoral base, expansion II/5 to I14 

 in eye, length 3% to 4% in combined head and body to caudal base ; 

 interorbital 2% to 2% in head, broadly convex. Gill rakers 17 to 

 21 + 30 to 32, slenderly lanceolate, equal eye; gill filaments ^ 

 to % of gill rakers. 



Scales very caducous, 58 to 60 (pockets) in lateral series to caudal 

 base; 13 or 14 transverse, 13 to 14 predorsal. Abdominal serrae 

 15 to 17+23 to 28. Scales with 13 to 15 marginal basal striae con- 

 verging medially, also apically with reticulations; circuli very fine, 

 semiconcentric and medially on scale variably concentric, absent 

 over greater apical portion of scales. 



D. in, 9, first branched ray 1 ? to 1% in head; A. 11, 80 to n, 

 83, second ray 3% ? to 3^^; caudal 214 ?, apparently pointed (dam- 

 aged) ; pectoral ray 2i/io to 2'% to caudal base, with uppermost 6 

 rays filamentous ; ventral 2 to 214 in head. 



