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Pellona leschenaultii (not Valenciennes) Bleekeb, Verb. Batav. Genootsch, 

 (Madura), vol. 22, p. 6, 1849 (Kammal and Tanjong) ; (Mid. Oost Java), 

 vol. 23, p. 11, 1850. 



Pellona russellii Bleekee, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. ( Haring. ) , vol. 24, p. 23, 1852 

 ( type locality : Batavia, Samarang, Suraba ja, Pasuruan ) . 



Pellona motius (part) GIjnthek, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 7, p. 456, 1868 (Ben- 

 gal). 



Depth 3%; head 3i/^, width 3l^. Snout 3l^ in head from snout 

 tip; eye 3%, equals snout, much greater than interorbital ; maxillary 

 reaches i/4 in eye, expansion 1% in eye, length 1% i^ head from snout 

 tip; teeth few, small, short, low, conspicuous in front of each jaw; 

 patch of villiform teeth on each palatine and pterygoid, none on vomer 

 or tongue ; interorbital 7I/3, convexly elevated ; cheek venulose. Gill 

 rakers 10+20, lanceolate, 1% in eye, twice gill filaments. 



Scales caducous, 50 (pockets) in median lateral series to caudal 

 base; 20 transversely, 21 predorsal. Abdominal serrae 24+12. 

 Scales with 2 incomplete vertical striae; circuli very fine, parallel 

 and transverse, none apical. 



D. Ill, 16 (fin rays broken), depressed fin length 1% in total head 

 length; A. iii, 43, i, second branched ray 3%; caudal (damaged) 

 apparently less than head, well forked and lobes sharply pointed; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 31/^ ; pectoral 1^^ ; ventral 51/5. 



Back drab-brown, sides and under surface silvery white. Upper 

 surface of snout and mandible, also occiput, brownish. Fins all pale 

 brownish, dorsal and caudal little darker. 



India, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, East Indies. According to 

 Bleeker reaches 310 mm. 



Compared with Bleeker's figure of Ilisha 7Jiegalopterus my speci- 

 men shows the pectoral with its broken end reaching much nearer 

 the ventral. 



5107. Sandakan Bay, Borneo. March 3, 1908. Length, 260 mm. 

 ILISHA MACROGASTER Bleeker 



IlisJia macrogaster Bleekee, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 3, p. 300, 1866 

 (type locality: Sambas, vpestern Borneo) ; Atlas Ichtb. lud. N^erland., vol. 

 6, p. 121, pi. (13) 271, fig. 4, 1866-72 (Borneo).— Noeman, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., ser. 9, vol. 11, p. 9, 1923 (types). 



Pellona macrogaster Gijnther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 458, 1868 

 (type). — Webeb and Beatjfokt, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 2, 

 p. 93, 1913 (copied).— Heebe and Myees, Raffles Mus. Bull., No, 13, p. 13, 

 1937 (Ketam I., Selangor). 



Depth 3, ventral profile, especially anteriorly, much more convex 

 than dorsal; head 4. Snout shorter than eye, which 2I/2 to 2% in 

 head; maxillary reaches below front part of eye; lower jaw mod- 

 erately projecting; ridges on head run parallel posteriorly, greatest 

 interspace 3i/^ to 3% in eye. Lower gill rakers 21 to 24. 



