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body. Six upper rays of pectorals produced, slightly or very 
much surpassing origin of anal. Thirty one abdominal spine- 
ferous scutes, 12 of which are praeventral. Gillrakers about 34, 
shorter than eye. Silvery, back dark, fins hyaline. Length of 
single specimen described 176 mm. (Not seen by us). 
Habitat: River Mussi, Palembang (Sumatra). — Siam. 
3. Coilia dussumieri C. V. 
Coilia dussumieri Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XXI. 1848, p. 81. 
Leptonurus chrysostigma Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXII. 1849. Bijdr. Ichth. 
Madura, p. 14. 
Coilia dussumieri Ginther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 403. 
Coilia (Coilia) Dussumieri Bleeker, Atl. Ichth, VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 140. 
Coilia Dussumieri Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878—1888, p. 631. 
Fig. 20. Coilia dussumieri C. V. 
B. g—11; D. t+ 14—15; A. 86—110; P. 18; V. 7; L.1. 
60—70; L. tr. Io—II. 
Elongate, compressed. Height 4—5'/,, head 5—57/,, eye 
subcutaneous, 3'/,—4!'/,. Snout prominent, conical, shorter than 
eye. Maxillary dilated, opposite the mandibular joint, tapering 
behind and reaching about the hindborder of the suboper- 
culum; with small teeth along the whole of its ventral border. 
Dorsal more or less than twice as near to snout as to cau- 
dal. Length of anal 1'/,—1*/, in length of body. Origin of 
ventrals opposite to origin of dorsal, about midway between 
anal and suboperculum, 2—3 in head. Pectorals with the six 
upper rays filiform and produced to about the middle of the 
length of the fish. Scales thin, deciduous, with anastomosing 
lines, 12—14 keeled spiniferous abdominal scutes, 4—6 of which 
anterior to the ventrals. About 24 gillrakers, with distinct spines 
at the innerside, three times as long as branchial filaments, nearly 
