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Oblong, slightly compressed, ventral profile more convex 
than dorsal, belly rounded. Height 3'/,—5, head 3'/,—4, eye 
2°/,—3'/,, longer than snout. Lower jaw prominent. Maxillary 
reaches to a little before or somewhat behind hindborder of 
eye. Origin of dorsal midway between snout and base of 
caudal, or a little nearer to caudal, nearly twice as high as 
long; its upperborder concave and its last ray produced into 
a filament. Anal concave, much longer than dorsal. Ventrals 
below dorsal, their origin before that of dorsal and midway 
between anal and origin of pectorals. Villiform teeth on jaws, 
vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue. About 30 flattened 
gillrakers with the innerside spinulous, a third longer than 
branchial filaments, about */, of eye. Scales thin. Darkish 
blue, silvery below. Dorsal, caudal and upperpart of pectorals 
black, rest of fins hyaline. Length 555 mm. 
Nom. indig.: Bulan-bulan (Mal.); Bandeng laut (Banjer- 
massin); Bale hebo (Macassar). Juvenes: Tjupang (Krawang). 
Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Perbana, Tjiringin, Samarang, 
Surabaya, Pasuruan, river Panimbang (K. v. H.), Tambak Su- 
mur!); Sumatra (Telokbetong); Singapore; Pinang; Bintang 
(Rio); Borneo (Balikpapan); Celebes (Makassar!, Badjoa, Pom- 
panua, Klabat-diatas); Madura; Bali; Timor (Dehli); Ceram!; 
Ambon; Aru Isles; New Guinea (Merauke!, Goldie river); 
Schouten Islands (Mysore). — Eastward to the Society islands; 
Australia; Philippines; China; Riu-Kiu-islands; westward to 
east coast of Africa and Madagascar. 
In seas and estuaries, entering freshwater. Kept in fresh- 
water ponds in the interior of Java, the fray being obtained 
from the coast. 
2. Fam ALBULIDAE: 
Elongate, slightly compressed; belly flattish. Scales cycloid, 
silvery, those of the single lateral line with a simple tube. 
Head naked, with an occipital collar of a few large scales. 
A large axillary scale above and a small one below pectorals 
and ventrals. Eye large, covered with an annular adipose 
eyelid. Conical snout prominent, mouth horizontal, bordered 
above for the greater part by the intermaxillary, only its hind- 
part by the edentulous maxillary, which has only one supple- 
