length of eye; nearer to anal than to suboperculum. Pectorals 

 as long as head without snout, reaching to ventrals or not 

 so far. Caudal deeply incised, about 4 times in length. Fine 

 teeth on jaws, vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue. Twelve 

 slender gillrakers, a little flattened, with fine spinules at the 

 innerside, */ 4 longer than branchial filaments, more than 3 / 4 of 

 eye. Scales thin, deciduous, with 10 12 vertical lines. About 

 28 abdominal scutes, strongly keeled and with a very pro- 

 minent spine, 10 of which are postventral. Silvery, dark 

 above. Scapular region with dark venules. Fins hyaline. 

 Length 170 mm. 



No men indig. : Bangkok (Puger). 



Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Surabaya, Puger!); Madura; Bali; 

 Sumatra (Telok betong, Padang, Priaman, Siboga) ; Nias; 

 Banka; Celebes (Makassar!, Badjoa); Ambon. Tanna ; 



Philippines; China; Siam and westward to the Red Sea and 

 East Coast of Africa (Beiral). 



In sea and brackish water. 



9. Engraulis dussumieri C. V. 



Engraulis Dussumieri Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist." Nat. Poiss. XXI. 1848, p. 69. 

 Engra^llis Dussumieri Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852. Haringacht. p. 43. 

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

 Engraulis my s tax Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 397 (nee Bl. Schn.). 

 P Engraulis mystax Klunzinger, Sitzungsber. Akad. VVien, LXXX. 1879, p. 416. 

 Engraulis Dussumieri Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 627. 



B. 1213; D. r. 1415; A. 343 8 ; P- ii 12; V. 7; 

 L. 1. 40 42; L. tr. 10 ii. 



Oblong, compressed, dorsal profile about as convex as the 

 ventral. Fronto-rostral profile very convex. Pleight 3 ! / 4 3 ! / 2 , 

 head 3 2 / 3 4 ! / 5 , eye 3'/ 2 4, snout conspicuously rounded, pro- 

 minent, nearly 3 / 4 of eye. Maxillary dilated at mandibulary 

 joint, tapering behind and reaching nearly to the ventrals. 

 Dorsal much nearer to caudal than to snout, its origin nearer 

 to snout, situated far behind origin of ventrals. Anal 3 3 ! / 3 

 in length. Its origin behind end of dorsal. Ventrals about 

 i '/ 2 of eye ; their origin midway between anal and suboperculum. 

 Pectorals as long as head without snout, reaching ventrals. 

 Caudal deeply incised, about 4 times in length. Small teeth 

 on jaws, vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue. Eighteen 

 flattened gillrakers, conspicuously spined at the innerside, more 



