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behind, with a convex lower border. Praeoperculum with 

 rounded posterior angle. Origin of dorsal nearer to snout than to 

 caudal, its height about as long as its base and about equal to 

 head without snout, and a little shorter than base of anal. 

 Pectorals a little longer than head without snout. Origin of 

 ventrals before origin of dorsal. Teeth on vomer, palatines, 

 pterygoids and tongue. Gillrakers about 32, somewhat longer 

 than the branchial filaments, shorter than half eye. Nineteen 

 praeventral, 10 more prominent postventral abdominal sharp- 

 edged scutes. About 16 dorsal edged scutes. Scales firm, smooth, 

 border rounded and irregularly crenulated. Yellowish ; head, 

 abdomen and a median lateral band silvery. Two rows of 

 black dots along the back. Black dots on point of snout, top 

 of head and in a row along each side of the base of the anal. 

 Caudal dotted with black,, the dots more crowded at the 

 margin. Length about 90 mm. 



N o m e n i n d i g. : Tembang, Kalapan (Malay. Batavia). 



Habitat: Java (Batavia! Samarang! Japara, Bantam); Pinang; 

 Singapore; Banka. Siam ; Burma ; Ceylon; West coast of India. 



In see, along the coast. 



2. Clupeoides venulosus M. Web- & de Bfrt. 



Clupeoides venuloses Max Weber & L. F. de Beaufort, Verhand. Akademie Am- 

 sterdam XVII, NO. 3. 1912, p. 3. 



B. 6; D. 14; A. 18; P. 13; V. 8; L.I. 3840; L. tr. 12. 



Elongate, compressed, dorsal profile convex from snout to 

 dorsal, ventral profile more convex from snout to anal. Height 

 about 3 >/ 2 , 4 4 l / 3 w ^h C., head 4Y 5 4 7 /io 5 2 / 5 5 f /2 with c - 

 Eye about 3 ! / 2 , situated in the anterior half of head, a little 

 longer than snout. Interorbital space a little less than diameter 

 of eye, very convex. A blunt median keel along the head. 

 Occipital part of the head and scales on the neck rugose. 

 Maxillary reaches to frontborder of eye or not so far, nearly 

 4 times in head, falciform, with a broad supplemental bone. 

 Anteriorly it joins the intermaxillary, which forms the front- 

 margin of the mouth. Mandibles prominent. Operculum twice 

 as high as broad, with a deep transverse furrow in its posterior 

 third, its hindborder nearly rounded, its lower border oblique; 

 suboperculum about twice as long as broad, its lower border 

 rounded. Praeoperculum with vertical hindborder and rounded 

 angle. Cheeks and opercles venulated. Distance of origin of 



