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B. 6; D. 1819; A. 2021; P. 1415; V. 8; L. 1. 4041; 

 L. tr. 13 14. 



Height 2 1 / 2 3, head 3 3 l / 3 , eye 3V 2 4 l '%~ 2 times in 

 postorbital part of head, equal to snout. The maxillary reaches 

 below the middle of the eye in young specimens, below the 

 hindborder in adult ones. Seven to 10 diverging postfrontal 

 striae. Praeoperculum obtusely rounded behind. Operculum 

 nearly double as high as broad ; lower margin of suboper- 

 culum rounded and slightly tapering behind. Origin of dorsal 

 about i 1 / 2 diameter of eye nearer to point of snout than to 

 caudal, about as long as postocular part of head ; highest ray 

 of dorsal equal to postocular part of head. Height of anal 

 equals about diameter of eye, its base about as long as that 

 of dorsal. Pectorals about 3 / 5 of head. Ventrals about oppo- 

 site to middle of dorsal. Caudal with longer inferior lobe, 

 equalling the head. Scales longitudinally striated and crenu- 

 lated; 15 praeventral and 12 13 postventral keeled abdominal 

 scutes. Gillrakers about 88, closely set, longest I '/ 3 of diameter 

 of eye, very slender, pinnate on both sides. Colours in spirits 

 silvery with darkish grey back. Fins hyaline, dorsal black 

 tipped, caudal with blackish margin. Generally with a black 

 shoulderpatch, when young followed by 3 or 4 similar patches 

 in a row. Length 210 mm. 



Note: When young, the eye is relatively larger, and so 

 the maxillary reaches only to the middle of the eye and goes 

 only i 2 / 3 in the postocular part of the head. Bleeker described 

 this stage as a distinct species (A. malayana]. [See M. Weber 

 and L. F. de Beaufort. Verhand. Akad. Amsterdam XVII. 

 N. 3, 1912, p. 17]. 



Nomen indig. : Mata belo, (Mai.). 



Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Bantam, Cheribon, Surabaya, 

 Passaruan); Madura; Sumatra (Padang). British India; 



Ceylon; Aden and Zanzibar. 



In sea. 



3. Subgenus Harengula. 

 Synopsis of the species. 



I. L. 1. 32 C. (H.} dispilonotus p. 69. 



II. L. 1. 40-45. 



A. Height less than 3. 



a. Scales perforated by small holes, their bor- 

 der crenulated. Eye 3^3. 



