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Clupea melastotna (not Schnieder) Bleekee, Nat. Geneesk. Arch. Nederl.-Indie 

 vol. 2, p. 509, 1845 (Batavia). — Schlegel, in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, 

 Poiss., pts. 10-15, p. 237, pi. 108, fig. 1, 1846 (Simabara Bay and Nagasaki). 



Ilislia adnonnis (Gray) Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 306, 1846 (type 

 locality: Chinese Sea). 



Pellona grayana Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 315, 1847 (on 

 Gray). — Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 328 (Java; Hong Kong). — 

 Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, p. 56, 1865 (Amoy). 



Pellona vvmbclla Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 317, 1847 (type lo- 

 cality: Macao). 



Pellona schlegelli Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 25, p. 18, 1853 

 (type locality: Nagasaki) ; Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 6, p. 418, 1854 

 (Nagasaki) ; Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 26, pp. 6, 118, 1857 (Naga- 

 saki) ; Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N6erland., No. 3, vol. 3, p. 6, 1858 (Japan). 



Ilisha schlegeli Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, vol. 4, p. 252, 

 1870 (China). 



Pristigaster chinensis Basilewski, Nouv. M6m. Soc. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, p. 243, 

 1855 (type locality: Gulf of Tschiliensis, China). — Bleeker, Nederland. 

 Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, p. 148, 1874 (copied). 



Zunasia chinensis Jordan and Metz, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 1, p. 7, pi. 1, 

 fig. 1, 1913 (Chinnampo, Korea). — Moki, Journ. Pan-Pacific Res. Inst., vol. 3, 

 p. 3, 1928 (Genzan, Korea). 



Pristigaster (Pristigaster) sinensis Satjvage, Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris, ser. 7, vol. 

 5, p. 107, 1881 (type locality: Swatow). 



Pristigaster sinensis Ruttek, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 64 

 (copied). 



Depth 3 to 31/5 ; head 3 to 334, width 21/3 to 2%. Snout d% to 3% 

 in head from snout tip; eye 2% to 3, greater than snout, nearly 3 

 times interorbital, front adipose lid covering first third of iris ; maxil- 

 lary reaches % to % in eye, expansion 1% to 1% in eye, length 1% 

 to 2 in head; teeth villiform, in narrow bands in jaws and on each 

 palatine, broad band on tongue, none on vomer ; mandible protrudes 

 about % eye diameter before snout; interorbital 6% to 7^ in head, 

 little convex. Gill rakers 8 + 20, lanceolate, little longer than gill 

 filaments or I/2 of eye. 



Scales 44 or 45 in median lateral series to caudal base and 4 more 

 on latter; 7 transversely, 17 predorsal. Abdominal serrae 19 to 

 23 + 8 to 11. Scales with 1 or 2' transverse striae, usually incomplete; 

 circuli as very fine vertical parallel striae, none apical. 



D. in, 9, I (damaged), first branched ray 2 in total head length, 

 inserted midway between snout tip and caudal base ; A. m, 35 (dam- 

 aged), inserted below last dorsal rays, length 3 in combined head and 

 body to caudal base, first branched ray 4 in head; caudal slightly 

 shorter than total head length, well forked; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2% to 3% ; pectoral 1% ; ventral 5. 



Drab gray, evidently largely silvery white. Iris grayish. Fins 

 silvery. 



India, Singapore, Pinang, East Indies, Philippines, Cochinchina, 

 Formosa, China, Japan, Korea. 



