FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 673 



snout; A. 32 to 35, origin behind dorsal origin, length 3 in body 

 length ; pectoral rays 11 or 12, long as or little longer than postorbital 

 part of head ; ventral rays 7, less than half of head. 



Silvery, darker above. Across nape usually blackish spot, reaching 

 downwards to scapula. Fins hyalme, dorsal and caudal usually 

 blackish along margin. Length to 112 mm. (Weber and Beaufort.) 



India, Ceylon, Malacca, East Indies, Philippines, China. 



THRISSOCLES HAMILTONII (Gray) 



Thrissa hamiltonU Geay, Illustr. Indian Zool. HarcTwicke, vol. 2, pi. 92, fig. 3, 

 1832-34 (no locality). (Coilia hamiltoni Gray not involved.) 



Thrissa hamiltoni Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Pliilomath., Paris, ser. 7, vol. 5, p. 107, 1881 

 (Swatow). 



Trichosoma hamiltonil Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 292, 1839 

 (reference). — Jokdan and Staeks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, p. 194, 1905 

 (Korea). 



Trichosoma hamiltoni Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 66, 1897 

 (compiled). — Jobdan and Metz, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 1, p. 8, 1913 

 (Fusan). 



EngrauUs hamiltotii Valekciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. 66, 1848 (Bom- 

 bay; Pondicherry). — Bleekeb, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 12, 

 p. 32, 1861 (Singapore). — Fowles, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 79, 

 p. 258, 1927 (Philippines).— PiiXAY, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol, 33, 

 p. 355, 1929 (Travancore) ; Service Oceanogr. Peches Indochine, 6^ note, p. 

 113, 1929 (Cochin China). 



EngrauUs hamiltonii Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 239, 1865.— Guntheb, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mus., vol, 7, p. 395, 1865 (China, Moluccas, Sumatra, Pinang). — Day, 

 Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 625, pi. 177, fig. 4, 1878 (Sind).— Macleay, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 8, 1883, p. 209, 1884 (Lower Burdekin 

 River) ; vol. 9, p. 58, 1884 (compiled). — Vinciguerka, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. 

 Nat. Genova, ser. 2, vol. 2, p. 94, 1885 (Bassieu, Irrawadi ) .— Day, Fauna 

 Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 389, 1889.— Vinciguekea, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. 

 Nat. Genova, ser. 2, vol. 9, 1889, p. 350, 1890 (Rangoon).— Eleba, Cat. Fauna 

 Filip., vol. 1, p. 580, 1895 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz). — Fowler, Journ. 

 Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, p. 104, 1928 (Bombay; Philippine example). 



StolepJwrus hamiltoni Bleekeb, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 1, p. 261, 1863 

 (Wahai, Ceram) ; vol. 2, p. 176, 1865 (Siam; compiled). 



Stolephorus (Thrissa) hamiltoni Bleekeb, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, 

 pi. (1)259, fig. 5, 1866-72. 



Anchovia hamiltonii Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27 (1907), 

 p. 236, 1908 (Luzon; Panay). 



Thrissocles hamiltoni Fowlee, Copeia, No. 58, p. 62, 1918 (Philippines). — 

 McCuLLocH and Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 133, 1925 

 (reference). — Mori, Journ. Pan-Pacific Res. Inst., vol. 2, p. 3, 1928 (Fusan, 

 Korea).— Wit, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, p. 22, fig. 17, 

 1929 (Amoy). — Fowleb, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 86, 



1934 (Bangkok).— Suvattt, Index Fish. Siam, p. 18, 1937 (reference). 

 Thrissocles hamiltonii Fowlee, Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 87, p. 94, 



1935 (Bangkok; Paknam) ; vol. 89, p. 132, 1937 (Tachin) ; List Fish. Malaya, 

 p. 35, 1938 (reference). 



Setipinna hamiltoni Fowlee, Hong Kong Nat., vol. 2, p. 204, 1931 (reference). 



