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than to caudal. Dorsal as high as long, its length equalling 
the length of eye and snout, longer than anal. Pectorals shorter 
than head without snout. Ventrals below first '/, of dorsal. 
Caudal with the base scaly, and with two elongated scales, about 
5 times in total length. Teeth on palatines, pterygoids and 
tongue. Gillrakers 28, coarse, roughly tuberculated all round, 
half as long as eye. Scales deciduous, smooth, thin, their 
hindmargin irregular and very finely striated on part on the 
scales. About 15—16 praeventral and 12 postventral scutes, 
with exception of the anterior ones flatly carinated. Above 
dark blue green, below silvery, no pearl-coloured longitudinal 
band or series of spots. Fins hyaline, caudal with a brownish 
margin. Length 270 mm. 
Habitat: Java (Batavia!); Sumatra (Telokbetong); Bintang; 
Celebes (Macassar). — Philippines (Jordan & Seale). 
2. Subgenus Alosa Cuvier. 
I. Caudal longer than head: no striae on head. 
a. Scales striated, crenulated, L.1. 39—41. Gill- 
rakers at least as long as eye. Maxillary ex- 
ceeds imiddlerotieye, wiletsw. uses) stan eee ee ee C. (A.) toli p. 64. 
6, Scales scarcely striated and ciliated, L.1. 44— 
46. Gillrakers much shorter than eye. Maxil- 
lary reaches sto)spipi lice meme nt-mterrmemsnren anc C. (A.) macrura p. 65. 
II, Caudal as long or shorter, than head, postocular 
part of vertex striated. 
a. Scales nearly smooth, not crenulated, 17 
praeventral abdominal scutes. 64 gillrakers. 
ig totitts ed BA eee eeees obs Sa Sa a ltepo 4 C. (A.) platygaster p. 66. 
(see also C. (A.) brevis) p. 67. 
6. Scales striated and crenulated, 15 praeventral 
abdominal scutes. 88 gillrakers. Height 2!/,—3. C. (A.) kanagurta p. 67. 
1. Clupea (Alosa) toli C. V. 
Clupea sinensis Bloch. Auslind. Fische IX. p. 38. Tab. 405 (mec? Linné Syst. 
Nat. ed. XIII. Gmelin p. 1408). 
Alausa toli Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XX. 1847, p. 435. 
Alausa toli Cantor. Journ. Asiat. Soc. of Bengal XVIII. Cat. Malay. Fishes. 
1849, p. 1281. (p.p. fide Day). 
Alausa ctenolepis Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852, Haringacht. p. 32. 
Clupea toli Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus, VII. 1868, p. 447. 
Alosa toli Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 113. 
Clupea toli Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878—1888, p. 641. 
? Clupea (Alausa) sinensis yon Martens, Exp. Ost-Asien, 1876, p. 308 & 405. 
