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much longer than broad. Hindmargin of praeoperculum rounded. 
Base of dorsal nearer to caudal than to snout. The distance 
of origin of dorsal to caudal is about 1'/, of its distance to 
snout. Base of dorsal shorter than its height, about as long 
as head without snout, a little longer than anal. Pectorals as 
long as head without snout. Ventrals below first '/, of dorsal. 
Caudal scaly at base, with two elongated scales, about 6 in 
total length. Teeth on palatines, pterygoids and tongue. Gill- 
rakers 40, longer than half diameter of eye, indistinctly spinulous. 
Scales deciduous, thin, with very fine concentric stripes. 1516 
praeventral, 14—15 postventral flatly carinated scutes. Upper- 
side dark blue, silvery beneath. Fins hyaline. Caudal and 
sometimes upperborder of pectorals violet. Length 150 mm. 
Habitat: Java (Tandjong Priok!) Celebes; Ternate; Ambon; 
Singapore. — Philippines; Samoa; Kingsmill islands; Red Sea; 
Mosambique; Zanzibar. 
3. Clupea (Amblygaster) clupeoides (Blkr.). 
Amblygaster clupeoides Bleeker, Journ. Ind. Arch, 1849, p. 73. 
Clupea clupeoides Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 425. 
Clupea (Amblygaster) clupeoides Bleeker, Atl. Ichth, VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 103. 
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Fig. 23. Clupea (Amblygaster) clupeoides (Blkr.) 
B. 6; D. 18—19; A. 17—18; P.16—17; V.8; L.1. 40—43; 
L. tr. 11 —12. 
Elongate, dorsal and ventral profile nearly equal, height 
3°/,—4'/,, head 4—"/,, eye 3'/,—3°/,, about as long as snout, 
smaller than postorbital part of head. Maxillary does not reach 
frontmargin of eye, a little more than 3 times in head. About 
12 diverging postfrontal striae. Operculum more than 2!'/, 
times as high as broad, suboperculum rhombic, its lower pos- 
terior angle rounded. Hindmargin of praeoperculum indistinctly 
convex, its angle rounded. Base of dorsal much nearer to 
caudal than to snout. Its origin distinctly nearer to snout 
