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longer than eye, their origin midway between anal and base 
of pectorals. Pectorals about as long as postocular part of 
head, not reaching ventrals. Caudal deeply incised, 4'/,—4?/, 
in length. About 20 slightly flattened gillrakers with a series 
of fine spinules at the innerside, '/, shorter than branchial 
filaments, a little longer than half eye. Scales thin, very de- 
ciduous, smooth, rounded behind. Four to 5 abdominal scutes 
between pectorals and ventrals. Brownish, with a silvery late- 
ral band, broadest in the middle. A broad dark spot behind occi- 
put. Fins hyaline, caudal powdered with black. Length 145 mm. 
Nomen indig.: Teri (Mal. Batavia); Tengadak (Sundan.); 
Ubeh (Ternate); Puti, Kuruba (Batjan); Puri-puti (Ambon). 
Habitat: Java (Batavia, Bantam, Semarang); Madura!; 
Bali; Lombok!; Bawean; Sumatra (Telokbetong, Padang, Pri- 
aman); Nias!; Pinang; Singapore; Bintang (Rio); Banka; 
Celebes (Macassar!, Tanette' Bonthain, Badjoa, Sindjai, Me- 
nado, ‘Tombariri); Batjan; Ternate; Ambon. — Philippines; 
Formosa; Japan; Samoa; Tahiti; British India. 
In sea, ascending tidal rivers. 
5. Stolephorus tri (Blkr.). 
Engraulis tri Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852. Haringacht. p. 4o. 
Engraulis trt Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 389. 
Stolephorus tri Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 1866—72, p. 128, 
Engraulis tri von Martens, Exp. Ost-Asien, Zoologie I. 1876, p. 404. 
Engraulis tri Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878—1888, p. 630. 
Pe 8 Trae tA. a0=—33: ) Py 213; (Vi 7; Li. 
32—35; L. tr. 8—9. 
Oblong. Height 37/,—4, head about 4, eye 3-—3'/,. Snout 
pointed, much projecting, shorter than eye. Maxillary pro- 
duced to gillopening. Dorsal much nearer to base of caudal 
than to snout. Its origin far behind origin of ventrals, about 
midway between snout and caudal. Anal 4'/,—5 in length, 
as long as head or a little shorter, its origin below last 
", of dorsal. Ventrals about midway between suboperculum 
and anal. Pectorals pointed, scarcely longer than postorbital 
part of head. Caudal deeply incised, about 4 in length. 
Scales thin, generally reticulated, very deciduous; 4—5 
abdominal spiny scutes between pectorals and ventrals. 21 
stout, serrulated gillrakers, somewhat longer than half of eye, 
