93 
B. 6; D. 17—18; A. 41—44; P. 16—17; V.7; L.1. 48—50; 
L.tr. 14—I5. 
Oblong, compressed, ventral profile not much more convex 
than dorsal profile. Height 3—3'/,, head 3'/,—3'/., eye 3—3'/4, 
'/, longer than snout, equalling postorbital part of head. Dorsal 
surface of head with two pairs of slightly diverging ridges. 
Maxillary reaches middle of eye, about 2 times in head. Oral 
border of maxillary with a ligament to the posterior end of inter- 
maxillary. Its posterior end broadly rounded, reaching a little 
farther than the end of the second supplemental bone. Chin 
very prominent. Origin of dorsal about midway between snout 
and base of caudal, */, diameter of eye behind origin of ven- 
trals, which are much shorter than eye and much nearer to 
anal than to suboperculum. Pectorals about as long as head 
without snout, reaching to the ventrals. Anal about 3 times 
in length of body, its origin below hindermost rays of dorsal. 
Caudal 3'/,—3°/, in length. Teeth on pterygoids, palatines 
and tongue, a single series of small ones in the jaws. Gill- 
rakers about 21, '/, longer than branchial filaments, shorter 
than pupil. 28—31 abdominal scutes, g—11 behind ventrals. 
Scales thin, deciduous, with one vertical line, hindmargin 
nearly smooth. Colour silvery, back brown (in alcohol), fins 
hyaline. Dorsal and caudal bordered with dark. Length more 
than 300 mm. 
Nomen indig.: Ikan puput (Bangan Api Api). 
Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Samarang, Surabaya, Pasaruan); 
Madura; Singapore; Sumatra (Bagan Api Api!); Bintang; 
Banka; Borneo (Sambas, Kota baru!, Pamangkat); Ambon. — 
British India. 
In sea and mouth of rivers. 
10. Pellona macrogaster (Blkr.) 
Llisha macrogaster Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 300. 
Pellona macrogaster Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 458. 
Llisha macrogaster Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 121. 
B67: Di 165A. 47; Es 15; Wr 6—7; Jed. 50; L.tr. 15—16. 
Oblong, compressed, ventral profile, especially anteriorly 
much more convex than dorsal profile, that of the nape nearly 
straight. Height 2*/,, head 3%/,, eye about 2'/,, about double 
as long as snout. Posterior third of the ridges on the upper- 
surface of the head parallel to each other. Maxillary reaches 
