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behind, with a convex lower border. Praeoperculum with 
rounded posterior angle. Origin of dorsal nearer to snout than to 
caudal, its height about as long as its base and about equal to 
head without snout, and a little shorter than base of anal. 
Pectorals a little longer than head without snout. Origin of 
ventrals before origin of dorsal. Teeth on vomer, palatines, 
pterygoids and tongue. Gillrakers about 32, somewhat longer 
than the branchial filaments, shorter than half eye. Nineteen 
praeventral, 10 more prominent postventral abdominal sharp- 
edged scutes. About 16 dorsal edged scutes. Scales firm, smooth, 
border rounded and irregularly crenulated. Yellowish; head, 
abdomen and a median lateral band silvery. Two rows of 
black dots along the back. Black dots on point of snout, top 
of head and in a row along each side of the base of the anal. 
Caudal dotted with black,, the dots more crowded at the 
margin. Length about 90 mm. 
Nomen indig.: Tembang, Kalapan (Malay. Batavia). 
Habitat: Java(Batavia! Samarang! Japara, Bantam); Pinang; 
Singapore; Banka. — Siam; Burma; Ceylon; West coast of India. 
In seé, along the coast. 
2. Clupeoides venulosus M. Web. & de Bfrt. 
Clupeoides venuloses Max Weber & L. F. de Beaufort, Verhand. Akademie Am- 
sterdam XVII, N® 3. 1912, p. 3. 
B. G5" DW. 145 AL aoe Pe eae Ve) Se el 2S — On etre 
Elongate, compressed, dorsal profile convex from snout to 
dorsal, ventral profile more convex from snout to anal. Height 
about 3'/,, 4—4'/, with C., head 4'/,—4"/,), 52/;—5'/, with C. 
Eye about 3'/,, situated in the anterior half of head, a little 
longer than snout. Interorbital space a little less than diameter 
of eye, very convex. A blunt median keel along the head. 
Occipital part of the head and scales on the neck rugose. 
Maxillary reaches to frontborder of eye or not so far, nearly 
4 times in head, falciform, with a broad supplemental bone. 
Anteriorly it joins the intermaxillary, which forms the front- 
margin of the mouth. Mandibles prominent. Operculum twice 
as high as broad, with a deep transverse furrow in its posterior 
third, its hindborder nearly rounded, its lower border oblique; 
suboperculum about twice as long as broad, its lower border 
rounded. Praeoperculum with vertical hindborder and rounded 
angle. Cheeks and opercles venulated. Distance of origin of 
