Malayan Fishes. 
PART I. 
GIANT HERRINGS. 
(ELOPSIDAE.) 
This family contains but few species; the individuals however, 
abound in the tropical seas and are of great importance both as food 
and game fishes. 
The Bandang or Ménangin (/lops hawatiensis) is known to 
Americans in the Philippines & Hawaii as the Ten-pounder. It 
reaches a length of about 4 feet and is an edible fish of considerable 
value. 
The Bulan-bulan (Megalops cyprinoides) is the Indo-Pacific 
Tarpon and is very closely related to the well known sporting fish 
of America. It is known in Australia as the Ox-Eye or Big Eyed 
Herring. 
It has a very wide range extending from India to Australia 
and from East Africa to the Sandwich Islands. It is known to 
penetrate the rivers right up into fresh water and has been success- 
fully cultivated in brackish or even fresh water. 
From an edible standpoint it ranks very high. Its flesh is 
firm, well flavoured and possessed of good keeping qualities. It 
attains a length of 5 feet and when our fisheries are better known 
it may, as Stead has remarked, “ turn out to be as great a sporting 
fish as the Tarpon.” 
THE FEATHER BACKS. 
(NOTOPTERIDAE.) 
The Belida (Votopterus notopterus) is a fairly common fresh 
wato~ fish which attains a length of well over three feet. The belly 
is said to be extremely rich and well flavoured but the back contains 
numerous small bones. 
THE MILK FISH. 
(CHANIDAE.) 
The Bandang or Jangas (Chanos chanos) is the well known 
Milk-fish or White Mullet and is known as the Salmon-Herring 
in Australia. It is a sea and estuary fish and feeds on “ sea moss,” 
an alga (Oedogonium). 
