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15. ANCHOVIA INDICA (VanHasselt). 



Engraulh indicus Van Hasselt, Allgem. Konst. Letterbiich, 1823, p. 329 (East 



Indies). — Bleeker, Poiss. du Japon., 1879, p. 238. 

 Stolephorus indicus Bleeker, Atlas Clup., p. 127, pi. cclix (.Java, Sumatra, 



Celebes, Japan). 

 AncJtorm indica Jordan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1902, 



p. 328 (Suvvata, Formosa). 

 Engraulis albus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fishes, II, p. 293. 



Engrauiis balinensis Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., XXII, 1839, Bali, p. 11 (Bali). 

 Engraulis russellii Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., XXIV, Haring, p. 11 (East 



Indies). — GtJNTHER Cat. Fisb., VII, p. 390 (Amboyna, Malayan Peninsula). 



Hahltdt. — East Indies. 



Head \\\ depth 5f ; D. 16; A. 20; P. 13; scales 40. 



Snout pointed, much projecting; maxillary saber-shaped, finely 

 toothed, extendino- to the mandibulary joint; anal inserted below mid- 

 dle of dorsal; abdomen with 4 long slender spines; scales thin, 

 deciduous; a well-defined silvery lateral stripe. (Giinther.) 



Very abundant in the East Indies; known to us from two specimens 

 from Formosa. Bleeker says that it extends its range northward to 

 Japan, but there is no other record north of Formosa. 



{Indicus^ Indian.) 



14. ENGRAULIS Cuvier. 



EngraiUis CvviBR, Regne Animal, 1st. ed., 1817, p. 174 [encrasicholus) . 

 Encrasicholus Fleming, British Animals, 1828, p. 183 (encrasicholus). 



This genus includes spindle-shaped anchovies, little compressed, the 

 sides rounded, the vertebra? about 1.5 (11 to 17 in species examined), 

 the flesh rather dark, tender, and somewhat oily, not translucent, the 

 bones soft, the appearance and flesh resembling that of the sardines. 

 Temperate zones. 



[syypavXis, engrauh's^ the ancient name of EngratLl'is encrasicholus^ 

 the common anchovy of Europe). 



16. ENGRAULIS JAPONICUS Schlegel. 



SHIKO, IZASA. 



Engraulis japonicus Sciilegel, Fauna Japon. Poiss., 1846, p. 239, pi. cvni, fig. 3 

 (Nagasaki). — Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., XXVI, Japan, 1854, p. 119. — 

 Namiye, Class. Cat., 1881, p. 109 (Tokyo) and of Japanese writers [Reports of 

 Imperial Fisheries Bureau, etc.] generally. — Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1905, p. 194 (Gensan, Korea). 



Engraulis ringens Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 9 (Echigo, Hizen; not of Jenyns). 



Hahitat. — Coasts of Japan and Korea, in sandy bays. 



Head 4 in length, without caudal; If in total length; depth about 7; 

 D. 14; A. 18; P. 17; V. 7; scales in lateral series about 42; eye 3f to 

 4 in head; snout 5; mandible \\\ interor])ital space about 5; caudal 



