body. Six upper rays of pectorals produced, slightly or very 

 much surpassing origin of anal. Thirty one abdominal spine- 

 ferous scutes, 1 2 of which are praeventral. Gillrakers abput 34, 

 shorter than eye. Silvery, back dark, fins hyaline. Length of 

 single specimen described 176 mm. (Not seen by us). 

 Habitat: River Mussi, Palembang (Sumatra). Siam. 



3. Coilia dussumieri C. V. 



Coilia dussumieri Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XXI. 1848, p. 8r. 

 Leptonurus chrysostigma Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXII. 1849. Bijdr. Ichth. 



Madura, p. 14. 



Coilia dussumieri Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 403. 

 Coilia (Coilia] Dussumieri Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 140. 

 Coilia Dussumieri Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 631. 



Fig. 20. Coilia dussumieri C. V. 



B. 9 ii; D. i + 1415; A. 86110; P. 18; V. 7; L. 1. 

 60 70; L. tr. 10 ii. 



Elongate, compressed. Height 4 5 1 / 3 , head 5 5 2 / 3 , eye 

 subcutaneous, 3 ! / 2 4 ! /4- Snout prominent, conical, shorter than 

 eye. Maxillary dilated, opposite the mandibular joint, tapering 

 behind and reaching about the hindborder of the suboper- 

 culum ; with small teeth along the whole of its ventral border. 

 Dorsal more or less than twice as near to snout as to cau- 

 dal. Length of anal i ! / 2 i 4 / g in length of body. Origin of 

 ventrals opposite to origin of dorsal, about midway between 

 anal and suboperculum, 2 3 in head. Pectorals with the six 

 upper rays filiform and produced to about the middle of the 

 length of the fish. Scales thin, deciduous, with anastomosing 

 lines, 12 14 keeled spiniferous abdominal scutes, 4 6 of which 

 anterior to the ventrals. About 24 gillrakers, with distinct spines 

 at the innerside, three times as long as branchial filaments, nearly 



