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part of the anal. Caudal deeply incised, 4 5 in length. Very 

 small teeth on vomer, palatines, pterygoids and larger ones 

 in the jaws. Gillrakers about 12, as long as the eye, with a 

 row of unequal curved spines on the innerside. Scales thin 

 not very deciduous, with a very fine network and irregular 

 rough hindborder. 27 28 abdominal sharp pointed prominent 

 scutes, 1 1 of which are postventral. Silvery, back darker. 

 Vertical fins with a black margin, which may be broad on 

 dorsal and caudal, even the pectoral sometimes black. Length 

 over 300 mm. 



N o m e n i n d i g. : Biang-Biang (Bagan api api). 



Habitat: Pinang; Sumatra (Banjuasin, Bagan api api!); 

 Borneo (Pontianak, Sungiduri, Sinkawang, Pamangkat, Matang, 

 Sarawak). Pulu Condor; Bay of Bengal. 



In sea and rivers. 



3. Setipinna taty (C. V.). 



Engraulis taty Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons. XXI. 1848, p. 60. 

 Engraulis telaroides Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXII. 1 849. Bijdr. Ichth. Madura, p. 1 3. 

 Engrattlis taty Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, vol. XVIII, 1850, p. 1288. 

 Engratilis taty Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 400. 

 Setipinna taty Bleeker, All. Ichth. VI, 1866 72, p. 136. 

 Engraulis taty Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 88, p. 628. 



B. 12; D. i. 13-^15; A. 5156; P. i. 12-13; V. 7; L.I. 

 40 46; L. tr. 12. 



Oblong, strongly compressed, dorsal and ventral profile 

 evenly convex. Height about 3, head 4 3 / 4 5 3 / 4 , eye subcuta- 

 neous, 3 ! / 2 4, i ! /2 to near ty twice as long as snout, which slightly 

 projects. Maxillary broad and obliquely truncated behind, 

 extending a little beyond mandibulary joint. Origin of dorsal 

 about the length of the head, nearer to snout than to caudal, 

 far in front of origin of anal, which is about as long as its 

 distance from the snout. Ventrals about midway between 

 suboperculum and anal. Their origin about their length before 

 origin of dorsal. Upper pectoral ray produced beyond origin 

 of anal, mostly to its posterior half. Caudal deeply incised, 

 4 in length. Fine teeth on vomer, palatines, pterygoids, tongue 

 and jaws. Eightteen distant gillrakers, which are irregularly 

 spinulated along their innerside, thrice as long as branchial 

 filaments. Scales thin, more or less deciduous, with a network 

 narrowing near the hindborder and ending there in parallel 



