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than to caudal. Dorsal as high as long, its length equalling 

 the length of eye and snout, longer than anal. Pectorals shorter 

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

 Caudal with the base scaly, and with two elongated scales, about 

 5 times in total length. Teeth on palatines, pterygoids and 

 tongue. Gillrakers 28, coarse, roughly tuberculated all round, 

 half as long as eye. Scales deciduous, smooth, thin, their 

 hindmargin irregular and very finely striated on part on the 

 scales. About 15 16 praeventral and 12 postventral scutes, 

 with exception of the anterior ones flatly carinated. Above 

 dark blue green, below silvery, no pearl-coloured longitudinal 

 band or series of spots. Fins hyaline, caudal with a brownish 

 margin. Length 270 mm. 



Habitat: Java (Batavia!); Sumatra (Telokbetong); Bintang; 

 Celebes (Macassar). Philippines (Jordan & Scale). 



2. Subgenus Alosa Cuvier. 



I. Caudal longer than head: no striae on head. 



a. Scales striated, crenulated, L. 1. 39 41. Gill- 

 rakers at least as long as eye. Maxillary ex- 

 ceeds middle of eye C. (A.~) toll p. 64. 



b. Scales scarcely striated and ciliated, L. 1. 44 

 46. Gillrakers much shorter than eye. Maxil- 

 lary reaches to pupil C. (A?) macrnra p. 65. 



II. Caudal as long or shorter, than head, postocular 

 part of vertex striated. 



a. Scales nearly smooth, not crenulated, 17 

 praeventral abdominal scutes. 64 gillrakers. 



Height 2 ! /s C. (A.) platygaster p. 66. 



(see also C. (A.~) brevis) p. 67. 



b. Scales striated and crenulated, 1 5 praeventral 



abdominal scutes. 88 gillrakers. Height 2 V-2 3- C. (A.~) kanagurta p. 67. 



i. Clupea (Alosa) toll C. V. 



Clupea sinensis Bloch. Ausland. Fische IX. p. 38. Tab. 405 (nee? Linn6 Syst. 



Nat. ed. XIII. Gmelin p. 1408). 



Alausa toll Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XX. 1847, p. 435. 

 Atausa toll Cantor. Journ. Asiat. Soc. of Bengal XVIII. Cat. Malay. Fishes. 



1849, P 1281. (p.p. fide Day). 



Alausa ctenolepis Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852. Haringacht. p. 32. 

 Clupea toll Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 447. 

 Alosa toll Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 113. 

 Clupea toll Day, Fishes of India 4. 18781888, p. 641. 

 ? Clupea (Alausa) sinensis von Martens, Exp. Ost-Asien, 1876, p. 308 & 405. 



