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combined head and body to caudal base; interorbital 4 to 514, con- 

 vexly elevated. Gill rakers 16 or 17 + 16 to 20, equal gill filaments 

 or IYq in eye. 



Scales 37 or 38 in median lateral series to caudal base and 2 more 

 on latter; 9 transversely, 16 or 17 predorsal. Abdominal scutes 15 

 or 16+7 or 8. Scales with 9 or 10 vertical parallel striae; circuli 

 as fine vertical parallel striae. 



D. Ill, 9, 1, or III, 10, 1, first branched ray IV5 to 1^ in head; A. ni, 

 29, 1, to III, 32, I, first branched ray 1% to 2, base 3% to 3l^ in com- 

 bined head and body to caudal base ; caudal 1 to 1% in head, slender 

 lobes pointed, equal; least depth of caudal peduncle 2^5 to 2%; 

 pectoral 11/5 to 1% ; ventral 2 to 2i/^. 



Pale brownish above, sides silvery white, without pale lateral 

 band. Fins pale, edges of caudal lobes slightly dusky. Humeral 

 venules slightly dusky and with obsolete dusky band crossing pre- 

 dorsal anteriorly to opposite humeral membranes. 



India, Singapore, East Indies, Philippines, China, Japan, Bonin 

 Islands. 



5 examples. A. N. S. P. Calicut. James Hornell. 1922. Length, 105-116 mm. 

 1 example. A. N. S. P. Bombay. Prof. F. Hallberg. 1925. Length, 13S mm. 



THRISSOCLES VALENCIENNESI (Bleeker) 



Stolephorus (TJwyssa) valenciennesi Bleeker, Nederlaud. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 

 3, p. 306, 1866 (type locality: Java, Sumatra, Singapore, Borneo). 



Stolephorus (Thrissa) valenciennesi Bleekek, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 0, 

 pi. (2)260, fig. 6, 1866-72. 



EnffrauUs valenciennesi Bleekee, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, p. 133, 

 1866-72 (Java, Sumatra, Pinang, Singapore, Borneo ).^Weber and Beau- 

 fort, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 42, 1913 (Palabuan Batu, 

 Java). — Fowler, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 32, p. 254, 1927 (Bom- 

 bay) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 79, p. 258, 1927 (Orani).— 

 RoxAs and Martin, Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 25, 1937 

 (reference). 



Engraulis Valenciennes Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, p. 2, 

 1927 (Benkoelen, Sumatra). 



Anchovia valenciennesi Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser, 2, vol. 

 12, p. 501, 1904 (Padang, Sumatra). 



Thryssa valenciennesi Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 220, 1911 

 (Padang examples). 



Thrissocles valenciennesi Fowler, List Fish. Malaya, p. 25, 1938 (reference). 



Engraulis Jiamiltoni (not Gray) Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. 66, 

 1848 (part). 



Engraulis hamiltonii Dunckek, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, p. 185, 

 1904. 



Engraulis mystacoides (part) Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 7, p. 396, 1868 

 (copied). 



Depth 31/3 to 3y2 ; head 41/3 to 5, width 21/5 to 5. Snout 5 to 5% in 

 head; eye 4 to 514, greater than snout, subequal with interorbital, lids 



