MeO Orsalefinwpresente, amicen emt a abil cielo? wert nee Pellona p. 84. 
B. Dorsal fin wanting. ~ | A +24 
(1. Ventrals present: tL’ A, US \AMALE . eT Opisthopterus p. 95. ) 
25) Vientralsm wantin oman. meen ener pei tao. m “Raconda Pa1O7e 
I. Corica Hamilton, Buchanan. 
(HAMILTON, Buchanan. Fishes of the Ganges 1822. p. 253, 383). 
Elongate or subelongate, belly not much compressed. Back 
rounded. Scales moderate, thin, smooth or nearly so. Teeth 
on jaws, palatines and tongue. Two anal fins, the second 
formed by two thickened rays, cleft to the base and much 
longer than the last rays of first anal. Origin of ventrals below 
that of dorsal. Branchiostegal rays 6. Gillrakers not numerous. 
Synopsis of the subgenera. 
A, Mouth ordinary. Twenty two slender elongate gillrakers. 
Meethave hy smnMUte eee beiatcih linemen: subgenus: Corica p. 54. 
Z&. Intermaxillary prominent and forming a blunt angle 
with the rather convex, ascending maxillary, beyond 
the margin of which protrude the points of the rather 
long teeth. Nineteen thick, short gillrakers. . . subgenus: Cleupeichthys p. 55. 
Subgenus: Corica Ham. Buch. 
1. Corica (Corica) pseudopterus (Blkr.). 
Spratella pseudopterus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. III. 1852, p. 432. 
Clupeoides pseudopterus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 452. 
Corica pseudopterus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 98. 
Clupeoides pseudopterus Vaillant, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. (3) V. 1894, p. 100+ 
B. 6; D. 15—16; (13—14 Giinther, Vaillant); A. 14—164-2; 
P. 12—13; V.8; L.1. 37—40; L. tr. 9—I0. 
Subelongate, compressed. Ventral and dorsal profile almost 
evenly convex. Height about 4'/,, about 5'/, with caudal, head 
about 41/,, 5'/,—5'/, with caudal. Eye about 2'/,—3, nearly 
equal to or a little longer than snout and about equal to postor- 
bital part of head. Two or one hardly conspicuous small ridges 
on each side of vertex. Maxillary reaching somewhat beyond 
frontmargin of eye, somewhat more than twice in head. Origin 
of dorsal a little nearer to root of caudal than to snout. First 
anal about equal to half length of head, second anal remote 
from first. Pectorals about as long as head without snout. 
Origin of ventrals hardly in front of that of dorsal. Minute 
