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CHIROCENTRUS DORAB (Forskal). 
One from Cebu, 160 mm. long. 
Family CLUPEIDAH. 
DUSSUMIERIA ACUTA (Valenciennes). 
One in very poor preservation, 158 mm. long. Head, 34. Gill- 
rakers 14-+-35, about 13 in eye. Cebu. 
HARENGULA MOLUCCENSIS Bleeker. 
Head, 34 to 33; depth, 4 to 44; D. m1, 14; A. m1, 16, sometimes 
15; scales (counted by pockets), 40 in lateral series from upper hind 
edge of gill-opening to caudal base; snout, 34 to 34 in head measured 
from upper jaw tip; eye, 34 to 32; maxillary, 2 to 24; interorbital, 
4 to 53. Gill-rakers 14-+-33, fine, longest seven-eighths of filaments, 
which are seven-eighths of eye. Scales very deciduous, with 4 trans- 
verse vertical striae and sometimes as many more marginals. Abdo- 
minal serrae, 16 or 17-+13 or 14. One small example with caudal 
tips broadly blackish, in others uniform. Most adults with inner 
angle or hind edge of caudal dusky. Sixteen examples, largest 120 
mm. Takao. 
Gunther gives about 38 gill-rakers on lower part of the arch. 
Family ENGRAULIDIDAE. 
ANCHOVIA BALIENSIS (Bleeker). 
Head, 44 to 44; depth, 5 to 54; D. m, 18; A. m or 1m, 16 or 17; 
snout, 35 to 43 in head; eye, 3} to 32; interorbital, 34 to 4; maxil- 
lary, 14 to 12, reaches hind preopercle edge or only very slightly 
beyond. Closed mandible tip about opposite first third in snout 
length. Teeth in both jaws and maxillary toothed to hind edge. 
Opercles smooth. Abdominal spines, 4, occasionally 5. Gill-rakers, 
20-++-22, slender, fine, slightly longer than filaments or 1} in eye. 
Scales caducous, in lateral series about 35 pockets to caudal base, and 
20 or 21 predorsal. Ventral scaly flap nearly long as fin. Color in 
alcohol faded twany-olive. Head with brassy tinge. Median silvery- 
white lateral band, its greatest expansion over front of anal, where 
little less than eye, though little more than pupil. On occiput, or 
at front of predorsal, blotch of bister about size of eye. Iris colonial- 
buff. Fins all paler than body, dorsal and caudal with grayish 
tints. Four examples, 137 to 145 mm. Takao. 
ANCHOVIA ZOLLINGERI (Bleeker). 
Head, 32 to 33; depth, 54 to 62; D. mm, 10; A. m1, 13; snout, 4 to 44 
in head; eye, 34 to 33; maxillary, 14, not reaching preopercle edge; 
