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Abdominal profile nearly equal to dorsal or conspicuously 
more convex. Height 2'/,—2°/,; head 4—4'/,, nearly as deep 
as long; eye 3—3'/,, shorter than postorbital part of head, 
not much longer than snout. Maxillary reaches to middle of 
eye or not so far, 2—2'/, in head, 4—g striae on postfrontal 
part of head. Operculum rather more than twice as high as 
wide, its lower straight-cut margin is oblique. Suboperculum 
rhombic, its inferior posterior angle rounded; posterior margin 
of praecoperculum straight, its angle rounded. Dorsal a little 
Fig. 25. Clupea (Harengula) brachysoma Blkr. 
nearer to base of caudal than to snout, its origin much nearer 
to snout; its base about as long as its height, which is about 
two times the height of the body. Anal much lower than 
dorsal, its base a little shorter than that of dorsal. Ventrals 
below or a little behind middle of dorsal. Pectorals longer 
than head without snout. Caudal about 3'/, in body, scaly. 
Fine teeth on jaws, palatines, pterygoids and tongue. Gill- 
rakers about 60, half as long as eye and equal to 3/, of 
breadth of operculum. Scales with an irregularly crenulated, 
incised and striated margin with irregular rows of ovale holes, 
on peduncle of tail with numerous reticulated and waved 
ridges; 15 praedorsal median scales; 17 praeventral and 12-13 
postventral conspicuous scutes. Colour of back dark, otherwise 
silvery; a dark spot on base and on top of dorsal, often on 
tips of caudal and behind the operculum, both disappearing in 
preserved specimens. Length more than 170 mm. 
Nomen indig.: Timbang (Batavia), Tanjan (Sundan.). 
Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Tjiringin, Palabuan); Sumatra 
(Benculen, Padang, Priaman); Banka; Borneo (Baram); Am- 
boina. — Australia; China; British India. 
In sea. 
