a a 
4I 
length of eye; nearer to anal than to suboperculum. Pectorals 
as long as head without snout, reaching to ventrals or not 
so far. Caudal deeply incised, about 4 times in length. Fine 
teeth on jaws, vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue. Twelve 
slender gillrakers, a little flattened, with fine spinules at the 
innerside, '/, longer than branchial filaments, more than */, of 
eye. Scales thin, deciduous, with 10—12 vertical lines. About 
28 abdominal scutes, strongly keeled and with a very pro- 
minent spine, 10 of which are postventral. Silvery, dark 
above. Scapular region with dark venules. Fins hyaline. 
Length 170 mm. 
Nomen indig.: Bangkok (Puger). 
Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Surabaya, Puger!); Madura; Bali; 
Sumatra (Telok betong, Padang, Priaman, Siboga); Nias; 
Banka; Celebes (Makassar!, Badjoa); Ambon. — Tanna; 
Philippines; China; Siam and westward to the Red Sea and 
East Coast of Africa (Beira!). 
In sea and brackish water. 
g. Engraulis dussumieri C. V. 
Engraulis Dussumieri Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss, XXI. 1848, p. 69. 
Engraulis Dussumiert Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen, XXIV. 1852. Haringacht. p. 43. 
Engraulis dussumiert Kner, Fische Novara Exp. 1865—1867, p. 333. 
Engraulis mystax Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 397 (mec BI. Schn.). 
) Engraulis mystax Kilunzinger, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wien, LXXX. 1879, p. 416. 
Engraulis Dussumteri Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878—1888, p. 627. 
B. 12—13; D. 1. 14—15; A. 34—38; P. 11—12; V. 7; 
L. 1. 40—42; L. tr. 10O—1I. 
Oblong, compressed, dorsal profile about as convex as the 
ventral. Fronto-rostral profile very convex. Height 3'/,—3"/,, 
head 37/,—4'/,, eye 3'/,—4, snout conspicuously rounded, pro- 
minent, nearly */, of eye. Maxillary dilated at mandibulary 
joint, tapering behind and reaching nearly to the ventrals. 
Dorsal much nearer to caudal than to snout, its origin nearer 
to snout, situated far behind origin of ventrals. Anal 3—3'/, 
in length. Its origin behind end of dorsal. Ventrals about 
1'/, of eye; their origin midway between anal and suboperculum. 
Pectorals as long as head without snout, reaching ventrals. 
Caudal deeply incised, about 4 times in length. Small teeth 
on jaws, vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue. Eighteen 
flattened gillrakers, conspicuously spined at the innerside, more 
