45 



7 7 ! /2 m length, its origin at some distance behind end of 

 dorsal. Ventrals a little longer than eye; their origin midway 

 between anal and 'the root of the pectorals. Pectorals about 

 as long as postocular part of head, very far from ventrals. 

 Caudal deeply incised, about 5 in length. Twenty five slender 

 flattened gillrakers with a double series of spines along the 

 innerside, about twice as long as branchial filaments, a little 

 shorter than eye. Scales very deciduous, 5 abdominal spiny 

 scutes between pectorals and ventrals. Yellowish with a sil- 

 very lateral band. Length over 100 mm. 



Habitat: Java (Batavia); Sumatra (Padang); Bali; Celebes 

 (Macassar); Lombok ! ; Sumbawa; Ambon; Nusa laut ! 



In sea. 



3. Stolephorus commersonii Lac. 



Stolephorus commersonnii Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. V. 1803, p. 382. 

 Engraulis Brownii Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XXI. 1848, 



p. 41 (ex parte). 



Engraulis Brownii Kner, Novara Exp. Fische, 1865 1867, p. 332. 

 Engraulis commersonianus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1 868, p, 388. 

 Stolephorus commersoniamis Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 1 866 1872, p. 128. 

 Engraulis Commersonianus Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 629. 



Fig. 19. Stolephorus commersonii Lac. 



B. II 13; D. 15 16; A. 20 21; P. 14 15; V. 7; L. 1. 

 3840; L, tr. 89. 



Elongate. Height 4 ! / 4 4 4 / 5 , head about 4, eye 3 3 2 / 3 . 

 Snout bluntly rounded, very prominent, 3 / 4 of eye. Maxillary 

 moderately broadened at the mandibular joint and continued 

 to the gillopening, where its extremity is pointed. Dorsal 

 midway between point of snout and end of caudal, its origin 

 nearer to base of caudal than to snout, far behind origin of 

 ventrals. Anal 5 5 ! / 3 in length, nearly as long as head 

 without snout, its origin below the beginning of posterior 

 third of dorsal. Ventrals longer than eye, their origin about 



