as long as eye. Golden, the lower side with two or three 

 longitudinal rows of shiny spots. Length 160 mm. 



Habitat: Java (Surabaya!); Sumatra (Bagan api api!); 

 Madura; Singapore; Banka. British India. 



In sea and estuaries. 



4. Coilia quadrifilis Giinther. 



Coilia reynaldi Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1292 (nee C. V.). 



Coilia quadrifilis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 403. 



Coilia quadrifilis Steindachner, Sitzber. Akad. Wien, LX.Abth. II. 1869, p. 571. 



Coilia (Coilia] quadrifilis Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 27. 1875, p. 141. 



Coilia quadrifilis von Martens, Exp. Ost-Asien, Zool. Teil, Bd. I. 1876, p. 312. 



B. 10; D. I + I5; A. lO/ Il6; P. 15. 



Height 5*/ 2 5 2 / 3 in total length. Head 6 in length without 

 caudal, 6Y 2 m total length. Eye 4. Maxillary obliquely trun- 

 cated behind, extending to the mandibulary joint. Dorsal 

 more than three times nearer to snout than to tip of caudal. 

 The first divided ray terminates in a filament, which is fre- 

 quently broken in preserved specimens. The ventrals are situated 

 opposite to the origin of the dorsal. Pectorals with the four 

 upper rays produced, reaching farther than origin of anal. 

 Anal i 3 / 4 in the total length. Abdomen serrated in front of 

 the ventrals. Pale golden, head and back above dotted with 

 black. One or two series of distant rounded spots of shining 

 gold along the lower half of the body. Fins reddish yellow, 

 upper half of dorsal sparingly dotted with black, caudal and 

 margin of the anal blackish. Length 175 mm. (Not seen by us). 



Habitat: Borneo (Sinkawang) ; Pinang ; Singapore. Malay 

 Peninsula. 



In sea and estuaries. 



Remark: It is possible that Day (Ind. fishes 4. p. 632) 

 is right, when he considers C. quadrifilis Gthr. to be a variety 

 of C. dussumieri C. V. having only 4 free filaments to the 

 pectoral fin. 



5. Coilia rebentischi Blkr. 



Coilia Rebentischi Bleeker, Act. Soc. Scient. Indo-Neerl. V. 1858 1859. Twaalfde 



bijdr. Ichth. Borneo, p. 5. 

 Coilia (Coilia) Rebentischi Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 140- 



B. 7; D. i + 14; A. 94; P. 28; V. 7; L.I. 65; L.t. 9 10. 



