Oblong, slightly compressed, ventral profile more convex 

 than dorsal, belly rounded. Height 3 ! / 2 5, head 3 ! / 2 4, eye 

 2 3 / 3 3'/2> longer than snout. Lower jaw prominent. Maxillary 

 reaches to a little before or somewhat behind hindborder of 

 eye. Origin of dorsal midway between snout and base of 

 caudal, or a little nearer to caudal, nearly twice as high as 

 long; its upperborder concave and its last ray produced into 

 a filament. Anal concave, much longer than dorsal. Ventrals 

 below dorsal, their origin before that of dorsal and midway 

 between anal and origin of pectorals. Villiform teeth on jaws, 

 vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue. About 30 flattened 

 gillrakers with the innerside spinulous, a third longer than 

 branchial filaments, about 3 / 5 of eye. Scales thin. Darkish 

 blue, silvery below. Dorsal, caudal and upperpart of pectorals 

 black, rest of fins hyaline. Length 555 mm. 



N o m. i n d i g. : Bulan-bulan (Mai.) ; Bandeng laut (Banjer- 

 massin); Bale hebo (Macassar). Juvenes: Tjupang (Krawang). 



Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Perbana, Tjiringin, Samarang, 

 Surabaya, Pasuruan, river Panimbang (K. v. H.), Tambak Su- 

 mur!); Sumatra (Telokbetong) ; Singapore; Pinang; Bintang 

 (Rio); Borneo (Balikpapan) ; Celebes (Makassar!, Badjoa, Pom- 

 panua, Klabat-diatas) ; Madura; Bali; Timor (Dehli); Ceram!; 

 Ambon; Aru Isles; New Guinea (Merauke!, Goldie river); 

 Schouten Islands (Mysore). Eastward to the Society islands ; 

 Australia; Philippines; China; Riu-Kiu-islands ; westward to 

 east coast of Africa and Madagascar. 



In seas and estuaries, entering freshwater. Kept in fresh- 

 water ponds in the interior of Java, the fray being obtained 

 from the coast. 



2. Fam. ALBULIDAE. 



Elongate, slightly compressed; belly flattish. Scales cycloid, 

 silvery, those of the single lateral line with a simple tube. 

 Head naked, with an occipital collar of a few large scales. 

 A large axillary scale above and a small one below pectorals 

 and ventrals. Eye large, covered with an annular adipose 

 eyelid. Conical snout prominent, mouth horizontal, bordered 

 above for the greater part by the intermaxillary, only its hind- 

 part by the edentulous maxillary, which has only one supple- 



