NO. 1499. THE HERRINGS OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND HERRE. 635 



13. HARENGULA MOLUCCENSIS Bleeker. 



Harengula moluccensis Bleeker, Nat. Tydschr. Ned., IV, 1853, p. 609 (Mol- 

 ucca). — Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVIII, 1905, p. 770 

 (Negros). 



Clupea moluccensis GvsTHER, Cat. Fish., VII, p. 427 (Molucca, Ceylon, Ternate). — 

 IsHiKAWA, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 8 (Miyako, Riu Kiu Islands). 



Harengula knnzei Bleeker, Nat. Tydschr. Ned., XII, p. 209 (Ternate). 



Habitat. — East Indies, north to the Riu Kiu Islands. 



Head 3f; depth 3|; D. 17 or 18; scales 40-12; head longer than 

 deep; eye o\ in head. Scales crenulate, deciduous, regularl}- arranged; 

 cheeks and opercles with tine radiating stria?. Gill rakers 38, fine, 

 closely set. Ventrals inserted below middle of dorsal; 13 scutes behind 

 ventrals. Color,* plain, silver3\ (Gunther). 



East Indies, generally common, once recorded from the Riu Kiu 

 Islands. We have specimens from Manila, but none from Japan. 



{inoluccensis^ living in Molucca.) 



12. ILISHA Gray. 



Platygaster Swainson, Classif. Anini., II, 1839, p. 294 {africanus) ; name pre- 

 occupied. 



Ilisha (Gray) Richardson, Ichthyol. China, in Proc. Brit. Assoc, 1846, p. 306 

 (abnormis); no description. 



Pellona Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. , XX, 1 847, p. 300 ( nrblgnyana— 

 flavipinnis) . 



Ilisha Bleeker, Ned. Tydskr. Dierk., 1866, p. 300 {ahnonnis). 



Body much compressed, the thorax and abdomen strongly serrated. 

 Scales moderate. Lower jaw prominent; mouth moderate, with rasp- 

 like bands of minute teeth on jaws, palatines, pteiy golds, and tongue; 

 none on vomer. Anal tin very long; ventrals present, small, inserted 

 before the small dorsal; upper ray of pectoral strong: caudal deeply 

 forked. Tropical coasts of America and Asia. 



{ilisha, apparently a corruption of Iwashi, the Japanese name for 

 sardine.) 



14. ILISHA ELONGATA (Bennett). 



HIRAKONOSHIRO (BROAD SHAD); HIRA. 



Alosa elongata Bennett, Life of Raffles, 1830, p. 691 (Sumatra). 



Pellona elongata Gunther, Cat. Fish., VII, 1868, p. 456 (East Indian and China 



seas to Japan). — Day, Fishes of India, 1878, p. 643, pi. clxiv, fig. 3, and pi. 



CLxv, fig. 1 (India). 

 Ilisha elongata Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., VI, 1892, p. 119, pi. cclix, fig. 3 (East 



Indies). — Jordan and Seale, Proc. Davenport Ac. Sci., X, p. 3 (Hongkong). 



—Jordan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1902, p. 328 



(Formosa). 

 Clupea affinis Gray and Hardwicke, 111. Ind. Zool., I, 1830, pi. xcvi (India). 

 Pellona a ffinis CAmoR, Catal. Malay Fish, 1850, p. 291 (Malaysia). 

 Clupea melastoma Schlegel, Fauna Jai^onica, Pisces, 1846, p. 237, pi. cviii, fig. 1 



(Nagasaki) (Not of Schneider). 



