74 
in head. Many diverging postfrontal striae. Dorsal situated 
midway between caudal and snout, its height about twice in 
the height of the body. Anal much longer than half head. 
Pectorals a little shorter than head without snout. Ventrals 
below middle of dorsal. Caudal about 4'/, in length. Minute 
teeth in the lower jaw, none on upper jaw, tongue and ptery- 
goids, small ones on palatines. Scales very. deciduous, scarcely 
or not all transversely striped, 30 very conspicuous abdominal 
scutes. Dark above, silvery below, fins hyaline. Length 145 mm. 
[Not seen by us]. 
Nomen indig.: bulan, lintring (Javan., Madur.). 
Habitat: Java (Surabaya); Madura. 
In sea. 
6, Clupea (Harengula) perforata (Cant.). 
Clupeonia perforata Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XVIII. 1850, p. 1276. 
Spratella kowala Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. I]. 1851, p. 492. 
fTarengula (Spratella) kowala Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam (2) II. 1868, 
Pp- 294. 
Clupea perforata Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 424. 
Clupea (Harengula) perforata Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 1872, p. 110. 
Sardinella perforata Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1911, p. 206. 
B. 6; D. 17—19; A. 18—19; P. 14—15; V. 8; L.1. 43—44; 
L. tr. 12—13. 
Abdominal profile more convex than the dorsal. Height about 
3; head 4 to nearly 4'/,; eye 3—3'/,, a little smaller than postor- 
bital part of head, as long as snout or a little longer. Maxillary 
reaches to frontmargin of pupil, 2—2'/, in head; 8—14 post- 
frontal diverging striae. Operculum a little more than two 
times higher than broad, venulous, praeoperculum indistinctly 
emarginated rounded below, suboperculum oblong quadrangular, 
lower posterior corner rounded, two times as long as high. 
Dorsel nearer to caudal than to snout. The distance of its 
origin to caudal is 1'/, its distance from the snout. Its base 
is a little longer than head without its postorbital part. Its 
height is slightly more than its length. Base of anal longer than 
base of dorsal. Pectorals */, of head. Ventrals below end of 
first third of dorsal. Caudal scaly, deeply forked, longer than 
head, its length 4'/,—4%/, in total length. Teeth on palatines 
and tongue only. Gillrakers 56—-58, longest °*/; eye, half as 
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long as postorbital part of head. Scales adherent, with one 
