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Oblong, compressed, dorsal and ventral profile nearly evenly 

 convex. Height 3 2 / 3 4, head 3 3 / 5 4. Rostro-frontal profile 

 convex. Eye 4 4 3 / 3 , as long as or longer than snout, which 

 is very prominent, about 2 l / 2 times in postorbital part of 

 head. Maxillary obliquely roundeol behind, reaching a little 

 farther than the mandibulary joint. Upper surface of head 

 with a median keel and with striae and rows of tubercles. 

 Origin of dorsal, which is behind the origin of ventrals, nearer 

 to snout than to caudal. Height of acute dorsal equalling 

 twice its length, much longer than postorbital part of the 

 head. Upper border of dorsal not emarginate. Origin of anal 

 behind dorsal, its length 3Y 2 to about 4 in length of body. Ven- 

 trals about midway between anal and praeoperculum, about 

 half the length of the head. Pectorals about as long as the 

 postorbital part of the head, reaching to the ventrals or nearly 

 so far. Jaws with a row of crowded conspicuous teeth. Small 

 teeth on palatines, pterygoids and tongue, a few stronger on 

 the vomer. 20 22 gillrakers, a little flattened, finely spinu- 

 lated, double as long as branchial filaments, a little shorter 

 than eye. Scales thin, not readily deciduous, with vertical lines, 

 and a narrow network of lines in the posterior half. Hind- 

 border irregularly indentated. About 15 abdominal scutes be- 

 tween pectorals and anus, feebly keeled and pointed behind, 

 generally also a single keeled scute just behind isthmus. Silvery, 

 back dark, generally with a dark patch on the shoulder. Fins 

 hyaline, caudal margined with darker. Length nearly 140 mm. 



No men in dig.: Teri (Mai. Batavia) ; Tjangkok (Sundan.)j 

 Kendui (Madura); Lungrah (Saparua) 1 ; Puri merah (Ambon); 

 Merah, Ligoh (Batjan); Lompeh (Menado). 



Habitat: Java (Batavia, Bantam, Tjiringin, Djongkulon, 

 Surabaya, Prigi); Sumatra (Benkulen, Trussan, Priaman, Padang); 

 Nias!; Madura; Bali; Lombok ! ; Celebes (Bonthain, Bulucomba, 

 Menado, Tanawanko); Timor; Ternate; Batjan; Ambon; Sapa- 

 rua; Ceram; Banda; Aru-islands !; Misol; New Guinea. 

 Philippines, Guam, Andamans, British India, Red Sea, coast 

 of Zanzibar, Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar. 



In sea. 



2. Engraulis scratchleyi Ramsay & Ogilby. 



Engraulis scratchleyi^ Ramsay & Douglas Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales 



ser. 2. I. 1886, p. 18. 



Anchovia scratchleyi Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish. XXV. 1906, p. 188. 

 Engraulis scratchleyi M. Weber, Nova Guinea IX. 1913. 



