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piled).— PiLLAY, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, No. 2, p. 355, 1929 

 (Travancore). — Tieant, Service Oceanogr. Pechos Indo-Chine, Q" note, p. 121, 

 1929 (Cochiuchina). — Chevey, Inst. Oc(^anogr. Indoehine, 19* note, p. 10, 1932 

 (Indo-China). 

 llisha hr achy soma Bleekeb, Atlas Ichtli. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, p. 118, pi. 

 (11) 267, fig. 5, 1866-72 (Java, Sumatra, Singapore). — Fowlee, Journ. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, p. 501, 1904 (Padang) ; Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1911, p. 210 (same material). — Norman, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 11, p. 3, 1923 (type; Malay Archipelago). — 

 FowLEB and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, p. 1, 1927 (Benkoelen, 

 Sumatra).— Fowlee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 599 1930 

 (Hong Kong) ; vol. 85, p. 246, 1934 (reference) ; vol. 87, p. 94, 1935 (Bang- 

 kok; Paknam) ; List Fish. Malaya, p. 28, 1938 (reference). 



Depth 2%, ventral profile much more convex than upper; head 

 3%, width 2%. Snout 4 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 2i/^, 

 greater than snout or interorbital, adipose lids narrow; maxillary 

 reaches i^ in eye, expansion 2 in eye, length 1% in head from snout 

 tip; teeth small, uniserial in jaws, slightly larger medianly; inter- 

 orbital 6^4 in head from snout tip, slightly elevated, depressed. Gill 

 rakers 14+16, slender, % of eye; gill filaments 2%. 



Scales 38 (injured) in medial lateral series to caudal base and 5 

 more on latter; 9 transversely, 14 (pockets) predorsal. Caudal with 

 minute scales basally. Ventral scutes damaged. 



D. ni, 14, origin midway between snout tip and last anal ray 

 base, fin base 2% in total head length; A. in, 44, i, origin about 

 opposite base of last dorsal ray, fin base 2% in combined head and 

 trunk to caudal base; caudal subequal with head, deeply forked; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2%o I pectoral ? ; ventral very small, 

 inserted slightly before dorsal origin. 



When fresh in arrack pale or dull olivaceous on back. Sides and 

 lower surface silvery white. Iris silvery white. Dorsal and caudal 

 grayish, other fins paler. 



India, Singapore, East Indies, China. According to Norman 

 reaches 190 mm. and the ventral scutes 18 to 20 + 7 or 8. 



1 example. A.N.S.P, Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. M. Hiller. 

 Length, 150 mm. 



ILISHA KAMPENI (Weber and Beaufort) 



Pellona kampeni Weber and Beaufoet, Fishes ludo-Australian Archipelago, 

 vol 2, p. 87, 1913 (type locality: Batavia, Java; Balikpapan, Borneo). — 

 ViNCiQtTEBEA, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 3, vol. 10, p. 618, 1926 

 (Santubong). — Haedenbekg, Treubia, vol. 14, livr. 2, p. 219, 1933 (Kumai; 

 Muara Kebas, N. Borneo) ; vol. 15, livr. 3, p. 231, 1936 (Kapuas R., Bor- 

 neo). — SuvATn, Index Fish. Siam, p. 11, 1937 (Maenam Tapi below Ban- 

 don; Thale Sap Songkhla, Thale Noi). 



llisha kampeni Noeman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 11, p. 5, 1923 (Mad- 

 ras).— Fowlee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 85, p. 246, 1934 

 (reference). 



