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much longer than broad. Hindmargin of praeoperculum rounded. 

 Base of dorsal nearer to caudal than to snout. The distance 

 of origin of dorsal to caudal is about i l j G of its distance to 

 snout. Base of dorsal shorter than its height, about as long 

 as head without snout, a little longer than anal. Pectorals as 

 long as head without snout. Ventrals below first ! / 3 of dorsal. 

 Caudal scaly at base, with two elongated scales, about 6 in 

 total length. Teeth on palatines, pterygoids and tongue. Gill- 

 rakers 40, longer than half diameter of eye, indistinctly spinulous. 

 Scales deciduous, thin, with very fine concentric stripes. 15 16 

 praeventral, 14 15 postventral flatly carinated scutes. Upper- 

 side dark blue, silvery beneath. Fins hyaline. Caudal and 

 sometimes upperborder of pectorals violet. Length 150 mm. 



Habitat: Java (Tandjong Priok !) Celebes ; Ternate ; Ambon ; 

 Singapore. -- Philippines; Samoa; Kingsmill islands; Red Sea; 

 Mosambique ; Zanzibar. 



3. Clupea (Amblygaster) clupeoides (Blkr.). 



Amblygaster clupeoides Bleeker, Journ. Ind. Arch. 1849, P- 73- 

 Clupea clupeoides Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1 868, p. 425. 

 Clupea (^Amblygaster) clupeoides Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 103. 



Fig. 23. Chipea {Amblygaster) clupeoides (Blkr.) 



B. 6; D. 1819; A. 17 18; P. 1617; V. 8; L.I. 40 43; 

 L. tr. ii 12. 



Elongate, dorsal and ventral profile nearly equal, height 

 3 3 / 4 4 ! / 4 , head 4 '/ 3 , eye 3 1 / 3 3 3 / 4 , about as long as snout, 

 smaller than postorbital part of head. Maxillary does not reach 

 frontmargin of eye, a little more than 3 times in head. About 

 12 diverging postfrontal striae. Operculum more than 2 ! / 2 

 times as high as broad, suboperculum rhombic, its lower pos- 

 terior angle rounded. Hindmargin of praeoperculum indistinctly 

 convex, its angle rounded. Base of dorsal much nearer to 

 caudal than to snout. Its origin distinctly nearer to snout 



