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part of the anal. Caudal deeply incised, 4—5 in length. Very 
small teeth on vomer, palatines, pterygoids and larger ones 
in the jaws. Gillrakers about 12, as long as the eye, with a 
row of unequal curved spines on the innerside. Scales thin 
not very deciduous, with a very fine network and irregular 
rough hindborder. 27—28 abdominal sharp pointed prominent 
scutes, 11 of which are postventral. Silvery, back darker. 
Vertical fins with a black margin, which may be broad on 
dorsal and caudal, even the pectoral sometimes black. Length 
over 300 mm. 
Nomen indig.: Biang-Biang (Bagan api api). 
Habitat: Pinang; Sumatra (Banjuasin, Bagan api api)!); 
Borneo (Pontianak, Sungiduri, Sinkawang, Pamangkat, Matang, 
Sarawak). — Pulu Condor; Bay of Bengal. 
In sea and rivers. 
3. Setipinna taty (C. V.). 
Engraulis taty Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons. XXI. 1848, p. 60. 
Engraulis telaroides Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXII. 1849. Bijdr. Ichth. Madura, p. 13. 
Engraulis taty Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, vol. XVIII, 1850, p. 1288. 
Engraulis taty Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 400. 
Setipinna taty Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI, 1866—72, p. 136. 
Engraulis taty Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878—88, p. 628. 
B. 12; D. a: 13-4165 A. $i—56; Po. 12—13 Ve ee 
40—46; L. tr. 12. 
Oblong, strongly compressed, dorsal and ventral profile 
evenly convex. Height about 3, head 4°/,—57*/,, eye subcuta- 
neous, 3'/,—4, 1'/, to nearly twice as long as snout, which slightly 
projects. Maxillary broad and obliquely truncated behind, 
extending a little beyond mandibulary joint. Origin of dorsal 
about the length of the head, nearer to snout than to caudal, 
far in front of origin of anal, which is about as long as its 
distance from the snout. Ventrals about midway between 
suboperculum and anal. Their origin about their length before 
origin of dorsal. Upper pectoral ray produced beyond origin 
of anal, mostly to its posterior half. Caudal deeply incised, 
4 in length. Fine teeth on vomer, palatines, pterygoids, tongue 
and jaws. Eightteen distant gillrakers, which are irregularly 
spinulated along their innerside, thrice as long as branchial 
filaments. Scales thin, more or less deciduous, with a network 
narrowing near the hindborder and ending there in parallel 
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