4 2 



than twice as long as branchial filaments, a little shorter than 

 eye. Scales thin, rather deciduous, with conspicuous vertical 

 lines partly forming a network on the hinder part of the scale, 

 the border of which is roughened. Abdominal scutes about 

 25, beginning at the throat, 10 being postventral. Yellowish 

 silvery, back dark. Sometimes a blackish spot across the nape 

 down to the scapula. Fins hyaline, caudal margined with 

 blackish. Length to 140 mm. (A specimen of Bleeker's collec- 

 tion seen by. us). 



Habitat: Java (Batavia, Bantam) ; Borneo (Sarawak [British 

 Mus.]); Singapore. China; British India; Queensland? 



In sea. 



10. Engraulis valenciennesi (Blkr.). 



Engraiilis mystax Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1289. (nee 



Bl. Schn.). 

 Engraulis mystax Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852. Haringacht. p. 43. 



(nee Bl. Schn.). 



Stolephorus (Thrissa) Valenciennesi Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1 866, p. 306. 

 Engraulis Valenciennesi Bleeker, All. Ichth. VI. 1866 1872, p. 133. 

 Engraulis Hamiltoni Duncker, Milth. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg XXI. 1904, p. 185. 



(nee Gray). 

 Thryssa valenciennesi Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1911, p. 220. 



B. 1213; D - i- 13 H; A - 3 8 42; P. 1213; V. 7; 

 L. 1. about 40; L. tr. 12. 



Oblong, compressed, dorsal profile much more convex than 

 abdominal profile, which is nearly straight. Rostro-frontal profile 

 convex. Height 3 l / 3 3 2 / 3 > head 4 4 ! / 3 , eye 3 1 / 8 3 2 / 3 - Snout 

 rounded, prominent, 3 / 4 of eye. Maxillary dilated above the 

 mandibulary joint, tapering behind, surpassing base of pec- 

 torals. Dorsal more than half the length of the head, nearer 

 to caudal than to snout, much higher than long. Origin of dorsal 

 nearer to caudal than to snout. Anal 2 4 | 5 3 in length, its origin 

 a little before end of dorsal. ] ) Ventrals not much longer than 

 eye, in the middle between anal and suboperculum. Pectorals 

 about as long as head without snout, reaching ventrals. Teeth 

 on jaws, vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue, those on 

 jaws directed forward; 16 17 spinulated gillrakers, 3 | 4 of 

 eye. Scales thin, deciduous, with fine vertical lines, 23 abdo- 

 minal scutes, beginning at the throat, 8 being ventral. Silvery, 



i) As also in Bleeker's figure. 



