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Colours silvery shot with gold and purple : black venules on 

 the shoulder, fins yellow: dorsal and end of caudal edged 

 with dark. Pectoral sometimes, but not usually, black." 

 (After Day). 



Habitat: North Celebes (A. B. Meyer). -- Coast of Sind 

 and through the seas of India. 



In sea. 



5. Engraulis grayi Blkr. 



Thryssa poorawah Cuvier, Regne animal. Ed. de luxe, p. 280 (no description). 



Thrissa Hamiltonii Gray, Illustr. Indian Zool. II. 1830 1835. Pise. tab. 5, 



fig. 3 (figure only). 



Engraulis Grayi Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852. Haringacht. p. 41. 

 Engraulis Grayi Kner, Fische Novara Exp. 1865 1867, p. 333. 

 Engraulis Hamiltonii Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 395. (S. Syn.). 

 Stolephorus Hamiltoni Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 261. 

 Engraulis poorawah Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 1866 1872, p. 132. 

 Engraulis Hamiltonii Day, Fishes of India, 4. 1878 1888, p. 625. 

 Engraulis Hamiltoni Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva (2) II. 1885, p. 94 

 and (2) IX. 1890, p. 350. 



Trichosoma Hamiltoni Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Science Philadelphia 1897, p. 66. 

 Anchovia Hamiltoni Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fish. XXVII. 1908, p. 236. 



Fig. 17. Engraulis Grayi Blkr. 



B. 1213; D. i. 1415; A. 3640; P. 1213; V., 7; 

 L. 1. 4547; L - tr - 1213. 



Oblong, compressed, dorsal and ventral profile about equally 

 convex. Fronto-rostral profile slightly convex. Height about 

 3 3 3 /4> head 4 4 4 / 3 , eye 3% 4. Snout rounded, scarcely 

 prominent, about 3 / 4 of eye. The maxillary is delated above 

 the mandibular joint and its posterior tapering portion extends 

 as far as the branchial opening. Dorsal very much nearer to 



