FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 657 



Scales 52 or 53 in median lateral series; 15 or 16 transversely. 

 Ventral scutes 27 + 12. 



D. 17, origin much nearer caudal base than snout tip, equidistant 

 from former and eye center; A. 47 (47 to 53), origin below front 

 third of dorsal, base length 2% in body length; ventrals shorter 

 than eye; inserted little nearer pectoral base than anal origin. 

 (Norman.) 



Above greenish, below yellowish silvery. Snout and lower jaw 

 dusky to blackish terminally. Iris yellowish. Fins yellow, dorsal 

 and caudal minutely dotted gray. Length, 381 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Singapore, East Indies. 



ILISHA SLADENI (Day) 



Pellona sladeni Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 1869, p. 623 (type locality: Irra- 

 waddi at Mandalay, Burma) ; Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 645, pi. 164, fig. 1, 

 1878 (Irrawaddi) ; Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 383, 1889. 



Ilisha sladeni Norman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 11, p. 6, 1923 (Irra- 

 waddi and Sittang Rivers, Burma). 



Depth 4 to 4I/3, greatest convexity of ventral profile before pec- 

 torals; head 4 to 4i^. Snout little shorter than eye, which 414 to 

 4% in head; maxillary reaches l^ in eye; lower jaw very oblique, 

 strongly projecting; ridges on head diverge little posteriorly, great- 

 est interspace 3 to 31/2 in eye. Lower gill rakers 20 to 22. 



Scales 46 to 49 in medial lateral series; 10 or 11 transversely. 

 Ventral scutes 24 + 10 or 11. 



D. 14 or 15, origin much nearer caudal base than snout end, equi- 

 distant from former and liind opercle edge ; A. 42 to 45, origin below 

 front half of dorsal, base length 31^4 to 3% in body length; ventrals 

 equal or little longer than eye, inserted much nearer pectoral base 

 than anal origin. 



Caudal with dark edge posteriorly. Length, 340 mm. (Norman.) 



Burma. 



ILISHA NOVACULA (Valenciennes) 



Pellona novacula Vaij:nciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 319, 1847 (type 

 locality: Rangoon). — Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 458, 186S 

 (Batavia). — Weber and Beaueoet, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 

 2, p. 92, 1913 (Bleeker's specimen). 



Ilisha novacula Bleekes, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 3, p. 302, 1866 (Ba- 

 tavia, in sea) ; Atlas Ichth. Ind. Nt^erland., vol. 6, p. 120, pi. (11)269, fig. 

 4, 1866-72 (Java) ; Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, p. 118, 1874 (Chinese 

 drawing). — Norman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 11, p. 8, 1923 (Java). 



Depth 31/^, greatest convexity of ventral profile below pectoral 

 base; head 4. Snout little shorter than eye, which 3% in head; max- 

 illary reaches almost to hind eye edge; lower jaw strongly projecting; 

 ridges on head diverge little posteriorly, greatest interspace i/^ of 

 eye. Lower gill rakers 20. 



