402 CLUPEiD^i:. 



betAveen the end of the snout and the root of the caudal ; anal fin 

 commencing in advance of the dorsal. The upper pectoral ray is 

 produced into a sometimes very long filament. The whole abdominal 

 edge is serrated. Vertical fins with black margins. 



Pinang ; Borneo. 

 «. Type of the species : skin. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Col- 

 lection. 

 b. Type of E. pfeifferi. Borneo. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 



3. COILIA*. 



Mystus, Lace}}, v. p. 466. 



Coilia, Gray, Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 9. 



Ch£etomus,'ilf' CM. Calc. Jouni. Nat. Hist. iv. 1843, p. 405. 



Body compressed, terminating in a long tapering tail. Scales of 

 moderate size. Snout, jaws, and dentition as in Engraulis. Anal 

 fin exceedingly long, confluent with the caudal. The two or three 

 upper pectoral rays are much prolonged, and their branches form 

 four, six, or seven filaments. Branchial apparatus as in Engraulis. 



Indian and Chinese seas. 



The species may be arranged thus : — 



I. Maxillaiy not extending backwards beyond the head. 



A. Anal rays more than 70, p. 402. 



B. Anal rays about 40, p. 404. 



II. Maxillary extending backwards beyond the head, p. 404. 



I. Ma.villary not extending backwards beyond the head. 

 A. Anal rays more than seventy. 



1. Coilia ramcarati. 



Mystiis ramcarati, Ham. Bnch. Fish. Gang. p. 233. 

 Engraulis (Coilia) hamiltonii, Gray, Ind. Zool. c. fig. 

 Coilia hamiltoni, Cnv. 8,- Val. xxi. p. 79. 



rejTialdi, Bleek. Verh.Bat. Gen. xxv. Beng. 8f Hindost. p. 143. 



rebentischi, Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Keerl. ^ Borneo, xii. p. 5. 



B. II. D. 13. A. 94-110. L. lat. 70. 

 Six pectoral filaments. Maxillary obliquely truncated behind, 

 extending to the mandibulary joint. The length of the head is 

 nearly one-sixth of the total (without cav;dal) ; diameter of the eye 

 one-fifth of the length of the head. The distance between the ver- 

 tical from the fii'st dorsal ray and the end of the snout is contained 

 thrice and two-thirds in the total length (without caudal). Abdo- 

 men not serrated in front of the ventrals. Gill-rakers fine, closely 



* 1. Coilia reynaldi, C. 4' J^- xxi. p. 81. — Irawaddy. 



2. ■ cantoris, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxv. p. 148. — Eiver Hooghly. 



a. Type of the species (100 mm. long), in bad state. From Dr. Bleeker's 

 Collection. This example is young and ought not to have been made 

 the type of a distinct species. 



