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Colours — silvery shot with gold and purple: black venules on 
the shoulder, fins yellow: dorsal and end of caudal edged 
with dark. Pectoral sometimes, but not usually, black.”’ 
(After Day). 
Habitat: North Celebes (A. B. Meyer). — Coast of Sind 
and through the seas of India. 
In sea. 
5. Engraulis grayi Blkr. 
Thryssa poorawah Cuvier, Régne animal. Ed. de luxe, p. 280 (no description). 
Thrissa Hamiltonii Gray, Mlustr. Indian Zool. II. 1830—1835. Pisc. tab. 5, 
fig. 3 (figure only). 
Engraulis Grayi Bleeker, Verh. Bat, Gen. XXIV. 1852. Haringacht. p. 41. 
Engraulis Grayi Kner, Fische Novara Exp. 1865—1867, p. 333- 
Engraulis Hamiltonii Giinther, Cat. Brit, Mus. VII. 1868, p. 395. (S. Syn.). 
Stolephorus Hamiltoni Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 261. 
' Engraulis poorawah Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 1866—1872, p. 132. 
Engraulis Hamiltonii Day, Fishes of India, 4°. 1878— 1888, p. 625. 
Engraulis Hamiltoni Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) I. 1885, p. 94 
and (2) IX. 1890, p. 350. 
Trichosoma Hamiltoni Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Science Philadelphia 1897, p. 66. 
Anchovia Hamiltoni Jordan and Richardson, Bull, Bur. Fish. XX VII. 1908, p. 236. 
Fig. 17. Engraulis Grayt Blkr. 
B) y2—13: BD. 1. 14—15; A. 36—40; P. 12—13; Ney ae 
mel. 45—47; L. tr. 12—13. 
Oblong, compressed, dorsal and ventral profile about equally 
convex. Fronto-rostral profile slightly convex. Height about 
3—3°],, head 4—4'/,, eye 3°/4s—4-. Snout rounded, scarcely 
prominent, about */,; of eye. The maxillary is delated above 
the mandibular joint and its posterior tapering portion extends 
as far as the branchial opening. Dorsal very much nearer to 
