FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 683 



not free; maxillary reaches slightly beyond pectoral base, expansion 

 1% to 1% in eye, length 3% to Z% in combined head and body to 

 caudal base; interorbital 3% to 41/3 in head, convex. Gill rakers 10 

 to 12 + 14 to 17, lanceolate, slender, I14 in eye. 



Scales 38 or 39 (mostly fallen) in medial lateral series to caudal 

 base and 3 more on latter ; 10 to 13 transversely, 19 or 20 predorsal to 

 occiput. Scales very thin, cycloid; with 6 to 10 vertical striae, in- 

 terrupted at median axis; circuli fine. Abdominal scutes 16 + 9. 



D. in, 9, 1, first branched ray IVs to 11/5 in head ; A. iii, 41 to m, 44, 

 I, first branched ray li/o; least depth of caudal pedimcle 1% to 2; 

 ventral 21/2 to 2% ; caudal forked, 3% to 3% in rest of length ; pec- 

 toral 3% to 41/5. 



Edge of back olivaceous brown, sides and below silvery white. 

 Gray venulose area at scapular region moderate. Iris slate. Fins all 

 pale or whitish, hind caudal edge gray. 



India, Pinang, Singapore, East Indies, Philippines. 

 2 examples, A.N.S.P. Bombay, India. Prof. F. Hallberg. 1925. Length, ISO- 

 IT? mm. 

 1 example, A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. 

 Length, 148 mm. In arrack largely silvery, back dull olivaceous brown. Sides 

 of head silvery white, also iris. No silvery lateral band. Humeral venules 

 yellowish green, with horizontal waved lines. Peritoneum silvery. Dorsal 

 and caudal pale gray to dusky, medially tinged yellowish green. Other fins 

 pale or whitish. 

 6 examples, A.N.S.P. Orani, Luzon. Rev. Joseph Clemens. 1923. Purchased. 

 Length, 112-124 mm. 



Subgenus Thrissina Jordan and Seale 



THRISSOCLES BAELAMA (Forskal) 



Clupea haelama Foeskax,, Descript. Animal., p. 72, 1775 (type locality: Djedda, 

 Red Sea).— SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 429, 1801 (Red Sea). 



Clupea boelama Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 42, 1792 (copied). 



EngrauUs boelama Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. 35, 1848 (Sey- 

 chelles, Mauritius, Red Sea, Massawah, Amboina). — Guichenot, Notes He 

 Reunion, vol. 2, p. 29, 1863.— GtJNTHEE, Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 123, 1866 

 (Zanzibar).— Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 6, p. 130, 1866-72 

 (Amboina; Ceylon). — Guntheb, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 393, 1868 

 (Zanzibar; Koseir). — Klxjnzingeb, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, p. 

 597, 1871 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Guntheb, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871, p. 671 

 (Red Sea; Zanzibar; Mysol; Manado). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. 

 Berlin, 1875, p. 445, 1876 ( Mauritius ) .—Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 626, 

 pi. 158, fig. 7, 1878 (Port Blair). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 

 p. 491, 1891 (not fig.; part). — Pellegrin, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 

 4, p. 228, 1898 (Guam). — Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.- 

 nat. Kl., vol. 71, pt. 1, p. 157, 1907 (Scheich Othman). — Guntheb, Journ. 

 Mus. Godeferoy, pt. 16, p. 379, 1909 (Red Sea; East Indies).— Bambes, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 31, Zool., p. 478, 1915 (Sudanese Red Sea). — 

 Tobtonese, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Torino, vol. 45, ser. 3, p. 14, 

 1935-36 (Massaua). 



