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B. 6; D. 18—19; A. 16—19; P. 15—16; V. 8; L.1. 45; L. tr. 12. 
Abdominal profile a little more convex than dorsal; height 
3—3°/4; head 4—4'/,; eye 3—33/,, 1/,—'/, shorter than postor- 
bital part of head, equals the snout or is a little longer. Maxil- 
lary reaches to pupil or not so far, 2'/, in head; 10—12 post- 
frontal diverging striae. Operculum 2'/, times as high as broad, 
lower margin straight-cut oblique, 
suboperculum trapezoid, inferior 
posterior angle rounded. Hind- 
margin of praeoperculum feebly 
emarginate, its angle rounded. 
Dorsal midway between snout 
and caudal, its origin nearer to 
snout, its base equals its height. 
Anal lower than dorsal but equal 
to its length. Origin of ventrals 
below the beginning of the second 
third of dorsal. Pectorals */, of 
head; caudal more than 4 times 
in body, scaly. Small teeth on palatines and tongue. Gillrakers 
50-52, longest */,—*/, of eye, half as long as breadth of operculum. 
“Scales partly with vertical lines. the hinderpart with irregular 
holes (Fig. 27), their margin Striated, crenulated, even irre- 
gularly dentated; 14—16 praedorsal median scales; 18—19 
praeventral, 15 postventral scutes. Back dark-coloured, other- 
wise silvery, black patch at origin of dorsal, other fins hyaline, 
marginal part of caudal dusky. Length about 185 mm. 
Nomen indig.: Tembang, tamban, tamban sisig (Malay.); 
Tanjang (Sundan.). 
Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Bantam, Djungkulon, Kragan!, 
Rembang!, Banjuwangi!); Onrust!; Sumatra (Benkulen, Trussa, 
Siboga); Nias!; Singapore; Banka; Borneo (Balikpapan!, Kota 
baru!); Bali; Gélebes (Macassar!, Bonthain, Badjoa); Ambon. — 
Australia, Ponapé, Tonga-Islands, Society-Islands, Fidji-Islands, 
Marquesas Islands, Philippines, Malacca, China, British India, 
South Arabia, Zanzibar. 
In sea: 
Fig. 27. Scale of Clupea (Harengula) 
jimbriata XK 6. 
8. Clupea (Harengula) stereolepis (Ogilby). 
Harengula stereolepsis I. D. Ogilby, Proc, Linn. Soc. N.S. W. (2) XXII. 1897, p. 759. 
D. 15—17; A. 16; Se. 45/12. 
