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striae and rough edges : scutes badly developed, about 32 in number. 

 Colour bluish green above, becoming silvery white on the sides and 

 beneath : sometimes a brownish mark on the shoulder. A longi- 

 tudinal band along the body, with from 13 to 20 intensely blue 

 spots. 



Hob. Ceylon, to the Malay Archipelago. 



464. (5.) Clupea longiceps. 



Sardinella longiceps, Cuv. $ Val. H. N. Pom. xx, p. 273. 

 Clupea longiceps, Day, Fish. India, p. G37, pi. clxi, fig. 2 (see 

 synon.). 



Lee-gur, Baluch. ; Louar, Sind ; Mutthi, Canarese and North Malabar ; 

 Char/ay, South Malabar ; ".Oil Sardine." 



D. 16-17. P. 17. V.9. A. 14-16. C. 17. L.I. 45-48. L.tr. 13. 



Length of head 3 to 4, height of body 5 to 5| in the total length. 

 Eyes diameter 4| to 5 in length of head, 1| diam. apart and 1 to 

 1^ from end of snout. Lower jaw slightly the longer. Fins 

 dorsal commences nearer to snout than to base of caudal ; ventral 

 inserted in a line rather behind the middle of the dorsal. Anal 

 low ; its last two rays thickened and rather elongated. Scales 

 indistinctly crenulated and regularly arranged ; about 18 badly 

 developed scutes before and 13 or 14 behind the base of the ventral 

 fin. Gill-rakers very numerous, about one half longer than the eye. 

 Colour bluish along the back, with golden reflexions ; abdomen 

 silvery shot with purple ; sometimes a golden line divides the colour 

 of the back from that of the sides : a large greenish-gold spot on 

 the upper margin of the opercle and preopercle ; dorsal greenish ; 

 caudal stained with green, the other fins transparent. 



Hob. Sind, down the Western coast of India, mere rarely on the 

 Eastern, Ceylon, the Andarnans to the Malay Archipelago. These 

 fish attain about 8 inches in length, and large quantities of oil are 

 made from them in Malabar ; l)ut along the Coromandel coast they 

 never appear to arrive in sufficient quantities, while those that come 

 are rarely fat as in Malabar. Abundant in some years, they occa- 

 sionally forsake their haunts for several consecutive seasons, 

 returning again in enormous quantities. 



465. (6.) Clupea fimbriata. 



Spratella fimbriata, Cuv. $ Val. H. N. Poiss. xx, p. 359, t. 600. 

 Clupea fimbriata, Day, Fish. India, p. 637, pi. clxi, fig. 3 (see 



synon.). 



Kich-uk-louar, Sind ; Cuttay-charlay, Malabar ; Poonduringa, Tani. ; 

 Chai-ree-addee, Hind. ; Kowal, Tel. 



D. 18-19. P. 15. V.8. A. 19-20. C. 20. L. 1. 45-48. L.tr. 11-12. 



Length of head 5 to 5^, height of body 4 to 4| or even 5 in the 

 total length. Eyes diameter 3 in length of head, nearly 1 diam. 



