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Scales 45 in medial lateral series; 14 or 15 transversely. Ventral 

 scutes 24+10, prominent. 



D. 17, origin nearer caudal base than snout end, equidistant from 

 former and front eye edge; A. 42, origin below hind half of dorsal, 

 base length 3% in body length; ventrals shorter than eye, inserted 

 little nearer pectoral base than anal origin. (Norman.) 



Above bluish green, below yellowish silvery. End of snout dusky. 

 Iris yellow. Fins yellowish. Length, 230 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Burma, Java, China. 



ILISHA FILIGERA (Valenciennes) 



Pellona fiUgera Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 322, 1847 (type 

 locality: Coromandel ; Bombay). — Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Ben- 

 gal), vol. 25, p. 72, 1853 (reference). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 

 7, p. 454, 1868 ( copied ) .—Da y, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 643, pi. 165, fig. 5, 

 1878 (Bombay) ; Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 380, 1889.— Tirant, 

 Service Oceanogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 6® note, p. 174, 1929 (Thudaumot). — 

 Chevey, Inst. Oceanogr. Indochine, 19^ note, p. 9, 1932 (Indo-China). 



Ilisha filigera Norman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 11, p. 10, 1923 (India). 



Depth 3, ventral profile more convex than dorsal ; head 3%. Snout 

 3% in head from upper jaw tip; eye 2%, greater than snout; maxil- 

 lary reaches ^ in eye, width 2 in eye, length 1% in head from snout 

 tip; teeth in jaws, on palate and tongue; interorbital 3 in eye, mod- 

 erately high. 



Scales 50 in medial lateral series; 15 or 16 transversely. Ventral 

 scutes 22 or 23 + 10 to 12. 



D. Ill or rv, 15 or 16, first branched ray 1% in total head length; 

 A. Ill, 43 to 47, first branched ray 4l^, fin base 2i/^ in combined head 

 and body to caudal base ; caudal 3 in rest of body, well forked, slender 

 lobes pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% in head; pectoral 

 1%; ventral 6. 



Coppery tinge along back, sides silvery, with mother -lof-pearl 

 reflections. Dorsal and pectoral black tipped. Length, 305 mm. 

 (Day.) 



India. Very close to Ilisha xanfhoptera (Bleeker) and according 

 to Norman differs in but 18 or 19 lower gill rakers and ventral 

 scutes 22+10 or 11. 



ILISHA XANTHOPTERA (Bleeker) 



Pellona xanthopterus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 2, p. (417) 

 439, 1851 (type locality: Sambas, Borneo). 



Pellona xantJioptera Gxjnthek, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 457, 1868 

 (type; East Indies). — Webee and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Australian Archi- 

 pelago, vol. 2, p. 94, 1913 (Krawang, Java). — Tieant, Service Oceanogr. 

 Peches Indo-Chine, 6* note, p. 9, 1932 (Indo-China).— Hardenberq, Treubia, 

 vol. 15, livr. 3, p. 231, 1936 (Telok I'ekadai, Borneo). 



