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U.S.N.M. No. 51969. Negros. Dr. Bashford Dean. Length, 53-83 mm., caudal 



ends broken. Lower gill rakers 58. As Harengula sundaica. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72198. Iloilo, Philippines. R. C. McGregor. Length, 82 mm. 



Lower gill rakers 59. As Harengula sundaica. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72505. Batavia, Java. Bryant and Palmer. Lower gill rakers 



60. Length, 125-143 mm. 3 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72506. Batavia. Bryant and Palmer. Length. 143 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72507. Batavia. Bryant and Palmer. Length, 110-112 mm. 3 



examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72508. Batavia. Bryant and Palmer. Length, 125-135 mm. 3 



examples. 



SARDINELLA SAMARENSIS Roxas 



Sardmella samarensis Roxas, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 55, p. 275, pi. 2, fig. 11 

 (scale), 1934 (type locality: Barrio Cinco, Catbalogan, Samar Province, 

 Samar Island). — Roxas and Martin, Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 

 6, p. 21, 1987 (reference). 



Depth 31/2 to 37/10 ; head 3% to 4, width 2%. Snout slightly greater 

 than eye, tip produced to form with vertex a prominent concavity; 

 eye 4 in head, 1% nearer snout tip than hind opercle edge; maxillary 

 reaches ^ in eye, length 2% in head; interorbital slightly less than 

 orbit, equals greatest opercle width, rather concave; postocular part 

 of head deeply veined, and venules on cheek. Gill rakers 96 to 102, 

 finely lanceolate, flattened, smooth, short, I/2 of gill filaments which 

 7/10 to yg of eye. 



Scales 43 to 45 in median lateral series ; 9 to 11 in transverse series ; 

 16 to 18 predorsal. Abdominal scutes 16 to 18+14 or 15. Scales 

 adherent, subcircular, nonfenestrate, with 2 to 5 transverse striae, one 

 usually complete ; hind edge irregularly pectinate. 



D. 18, 1% times nearer snout tip than caudal base, depressed base 

 equals height or 2 in head; A. 15, low, II/5 times longer than dorsal, 

 l^/io in head, 1% times length of caudal peduncle; pectoral equals 

 anal base; ventral 1% times orbit, equidistant from pectorals and 

 anal, inserted below middle of dorsal. 



Color? 



Length, 104-114 mm. (Roxas.) 



Philippines. Said to resemble Harengula ovaJis and Sardinella 

 ■fimbriata in the form of its body, though its other characters quite 

 distinct. 



SARDINELLA FIMBRIATA (Valenciennes) 



Spratella fimbriata Valenciennes, Hist Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 359, pi. 600, 1847 

 (type locality: Malabar).— D at. Fishes of Malabar, p. 233, 1865.— Kneb, 

 Reise Novara, Fische, p. 329, 1865 (Madras). 



Clupea fimbriata GiJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 427, 1868 (type 

 of Kowala loAiia; Madras). — Martens, Preuss. Bxped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, p. 

 404, 1876 (Manila).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 637, pi. 161, fig. 3, 187S 

 (India, Malabar, Vizagapatam). — Meyee, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., 

 Madrid, vol. 14, p. 42, 1885 (Manila Bay).— Dat, Fauna British India, 



