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ones in a single series on jaws. Gillrakers about 20—23, '/, 
longer than branchial filaments, shorter than pupil. Scales 
deciduous, thin, with a single vertical line, margin slightly 
and irregularly crenulated. 23—27 abdominal scutes, about 9 
of which are postventral. Silvery with a brownish back (in 
alcohol). Fins hyaline, margin of dorsal and caudal more or 
less dark. Length about 180 mm. 
Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Bantam, Anjer, Tjiringin); Sumatra 
(Padang, Tiku, Priaman); Singapore; Celebes (Macassar!, Bon- 
thain; Badjoa; Pare Pare!); Halmahera (Sindangola); Obi- 
major; Ambon; Ceram (Wahai). — Philippines; Siam to Coro- 
mandel coast of India. 
In sea. 
2. Pellona kampeni n. sp. 
BG Py hor oN ADs Ps rh Ve 7: Lil about 44; L. tr. 
about I5. 
Oblong, compressed, ventral profile a little more convex 
than dorsal one, profile of nape straight. Height 3%/,, head 
3*/;, eye about 3, as long as snout. Two pairs of diverging 
ridges on the surface of the head, the posterior portions of 
which run nearly parallel. Maxillary reaches to below middle 
of eye, twice in head, its oral border without supplemental bone 
(cf. P. hoeveniz) but with a ligament instead. Chin very prominent. 
Origin of dorsal a little nearer to snout than to caudal, nearly in 
the middle, 1'/, diameter of eye behind ventrals, which are 
situated nearer to the anal than to the suboperculum. Ventrals 
very short. Anal almost 3 in length, its anterior part opposite 
to posterior half of dorsal. Caudal deeply incised. Scales deci- 
duous, thin, smooth, 25—-26 abdominal scutes, 7 behind ven- 
trals. Gillrakers 20, spinulous all round, a little longer than 
branchial filaments, */, of pupil. Length 150 mm. 
Habitat: Java (Batavia!); Borneo (Balikpapan!). 
In sea and estuaries. 
3. Pellona brachysoma Blkr. 
Pellona brachysoma Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852, Haringacht. p. 22. 
Pellona brachysoma Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 456. 
llisha brachysoma Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 118. 
Pellona brachysoma Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878—1888, p. 645. 
BG; Do 1617; “A. 47—49; /P. 16;. V..7;. L.1. 40—42; 
bie 15 —16, 
