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Coilia pfeifferi Sauvagb, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 6, p. 175, 1882 (Poula- 



Condor). 

 Stethochaetus higuttatus Gkay, Cat. Fish. Gronow, p. 174, 1854 (type locality: 



India). — Jordan and Seale, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 67, p. 364, 1926 



(note). 



Depth 3% ; head (damaged) 51/4, width 3. Snout 6l^ in head from 

 snout tip ; eye 6^2) equals snout, 1% in interorbital ; maxillary reaches 

 hind preopercle edge though not to gill opening, expansion 1% in 

 snout, length 1%? in head from snout tip; interorbital 5, broadly 

 convex. Gill rakers 10 + 13, lanceolate, twice gill filaments or li/^ 

 in interorbital. 



Scales 48 (damaged) in median lateral series to caudal base and 4 

 more on latter; 13 transversely, 25 predorsal. Abdominal serrae 

 18 + 9. Scales with 37 radiating arched basal striae, meeting com- 

 plete apical reticulations; circuli finely concentric basally, none 

 apical. 



D. ni, 15, first branched ray (damaged) about 5 in combined head 

 and body to caudal base ; A. 11, 62, origin well before that of dorsal, 

 first branched ray (damaged) 1% ? ; caudal 1, deeply forked, lobes 

 pointed and lower little longer; least depth of caudal peduncle 2; 

 ventral 2%; pectoral with uppermost ray ending in long filament 

 extending back at least little beyond hind dorsal base or half way to 

 caudal base. 



Body brown with brassy tints, gray to silvery gray on skin where 

 scales fallen. Iris gray. Fins brownish. Dorsal creamy basally, 

 grayish terminally. Pectoral dusky terminally, long filament brown. 



India, Malay Peninsula, Pinang, East Indies, Cochin China. Re- 

 ported from the Philippines only by Elera. This species is the 

 genotype of Gunther's Heterothrissa, distinguished chiefly by its pro- 

 truding straight mandible or lower jaw and long anal inserted well 

 before dorsal. 



U.S.N.M. No. 48003. Cochin China. Lyons Museum. Length. 265 mm. 



Genus ENGRAULIS Cuvier 



EngrauUs Cuvier, Rfegne animal, vol. 2, p. 174, 1817. (Type, Clupea encrasi- 



cholus Linnaeus, designated by Jordan, Tanaka, Snyder, Journ. Coll. Sci., 



Tokyo, vol. 33, p. 38, 1913.) 

 Encrasichohis Fleming, British Animals, p. 183, 1828. (Type, Clupea encrasi- 



cholus Linnaeus, tautotypic.) 

 Austranchovia Whitley, Australian Zoologist, vol. 6, p. 311, 1931. (Type, 



Atherina australis Shaw, orthotypic.) 



Body partly cylindrical. No abdominal scutes. Maxillary not ex- 

 tending to gill opening. Lower gill rakers 36 to 49. Vertebrae 46 

 or 47. Alar scales at caudal base large. Anal short, inserted behind 

 front of dorsal. 



