57 



b. Height 2 2 /s 3 3 /5i eye 3V 2 i maxillary scarcely 

 reaching to below frontmargin of eye, 8 postventral 



abdominal scutes C. vemilosus p. 58. 



II. Origin of dorsal midway between snout and base of 

 caudal. Maxillary reaches to below middle of eye. 



a. Height less than 4. Head 3*/ 2 3 3 / 4 . L. 1. 35 37. C. hypselosoma p. 59. 



b. Height 4 or more than 4, head 4 4 2 / 5 . L. 1. 39 42. 

 . Eighteen abdominal scutes, 9 being postventral, 



no silvery lateral band. D. 15 16; A. 16 18. 



Caudal with black margin C. borneensis p. 60. 



/3. Seventeen abdominal scutes, 7 being postventral. 

 A silvery lateral band. D. 12 14; A. 21. Tip 

 of the upper caudal lobe blackish C. papuensis p. 60. 



i. Clupeoides lile (C. V.). 



Meletta lile Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XX. 1847, p. 378. 

 Alausa champil Cantor, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1 850. p. 1284, (nee Gray). 

 Rogenia argyrotaenia Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852, Haringacht., p. 26. 



Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. III. 1852, p. 457. 



Rogenia argyrotaenia Kner, Fische Novara Exp. 1865 67, p. 328. 

 Clupea argyrotaenia Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 423. 

 Clupea (Clupeoides) argyrotaenia Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872. p. 101. 

 Clupea lile Day, Fishes of India 4. 187888, p. 638. 



Fig. 22. Clupeoides lile (C. V.) 



B. 6; D. 1516; A. 1719; P. 1314; V. 8; L.I. 3841; 

 L. tr. 10 n. 



Oblong, very compressed, lower profile strongly convex, 

 upper profile very little curved, front of head concave. Back 

 serrated between head and first dorsal. Height 2 2 / 3 3, 3 ! / 3 4 

 with caudal, head 4 4 ! / 4 , 5 5 J / 2 with caudal, eye 3 3 ! / 4 

 with large adipose eyelids, longer than snout, about equal to 

 postorbital part of head. Several diverging postfrontal striae. 

 Maxillary reaches to front part of pupil, 2 ! / 3 in head. Oper- 

 culum about two times as high as broad, suboperculum pointed 



