65 
B. 6; D. 17—18; A. 18—20; P. 15—16; V. 7—9; L.1. 
39—41; L. tr. 14—15. 
Oblong, compressed. Height 3—3'/,; head 3'/,—4; eye 
A'o—5'l,, 2'/s—3'/, in postorbital part of head, about equal 
to snout. Maxillary exceeds vertical through middle of eye, 
2—2'/, in length of head. No postfrontal striae. Praeoperculum 
with an obtuse rounded angle, operculum 1'/,—1°/, higher 
than broad, suboperculum tapering behind. Origin of dorsal 
nearer to snout than to caudal; dorsal about as long at its 
base as its height which is about half the height of the 
body. Anal equals about the length of the dorsal but it is 
lower. Pectorals about as long as the head excluding the 
snout. Ventrals opposite to or a little behind middle of 
dorsal. Caudal, especially in adult, much longer than the head. 
Scales adherent, regularly arranged, longitudinally striated and 
crenulated; 17—18 prae= and 12—13 postventral keeled ab- 
dominal scutes. About 65 slender gillrakers at least as long 
as the eye. Colour silvery, scales of back more or less con- 
spicuously dark coloured, in the young with a dark shoulder- 
spot. Fins light-coloured, caudal diffusely dark margined. Length 
about 600 mm. 
Nomen indig.: Térubuk padi (Bagan Api Api). 
Habitat: Java (Batavia); Sumatra (Telokbetong, Bagan 
Api Api!); Pinang; Singapore; Banka. — Malay Peninsula; 
Siam; Formosa; British India. 
In sea and aestuaries. @uA AcH“*Cr1W4 
2. Clupea (Alosa) macrura (Blkr.). 
Alausa macrurus Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852. Haringacht. p. 31. 
(secund. fig. et nomen Kuhl & v. Hasselt). 
Alausa macrurus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. IV. 1853, p. 5or. 
Clupea macrura Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 448. 
Alosa macrurus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 1872, p. 113. 
B. 6; D. 17—18; A. 18—21; P. 15—16; V. 7—8; L. 1. 
44—46; L. tr. 14—15. 
Oblong, compressed, abdominal profile more convex than 
dorsal one. Height 3; head 4—4'/,; eye 4'/,—5, 2'/,—3 in 
postocular part of head; equal to snout. Maxillary reaches 
pupil, goes 3 times in head. No striae on head. Praeoperculum 
rounded behind; operculum about 2 times as high as broad; 
suboperculum rounded behind. Origin of dorsal much nearer 
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