70 



B. 6; D. 1819; A. 16 18; P. 1617; V. 8; L.I. 3236; 

 L. tr. 10 II. 



Oblong, compressed, abdominal profile scarcely more convex 

 than the dorsal. Height 3 3'/ 3 ; head 4, a little longer than 

 deep ; eye about 3, as long as the postorbital part of the 

 head ; snout a little shorter than eye ; maxillary reaches anterior 

 margin of pupil, 2 ! / 4 2 ! / 3 in length of head. Three to 7 

 longitudinal striae on postfrontal part of head. Operculum 

 about 2 times as high as broad, its lower straight cut margin 

 is oblique ; suboperculum rhombic, with rounded inferior pos- 

 terior angle. Posterior margin of praeoperculum straight, its 

 angle rounded. Cheeks and operculum generally venulous. 

 Dorsal a little nearer to caudal than to snout, its base equals 

 about its height, which is a little more than half height of 

 body. The much lower anal is as long as dorsal. Pectorals 

 3 / 4 of head. Ventrals equal to I */ 4 of eye and inserted below 

 first half of dorsal. Caudal 4 ! / 4 4 ! / 2 in length. Fine teeth on 

 palatines, pterygoids and tongue. Gillrakers about 35, longest 

 half as long as eye. Scales round, with vertical lines, hind- 

 margin very feebly crenulated and finely striated, deciduous; 

 about 15 praeventral and 12 13 postventral conspicuous 

 abdominal scutes. Colour dark on back, otherwise silvery. 

 A dark ocellus behind the middle of base of dorsal, a second 

 one behind dorsal, sometimes a dark patch between both. 

 Origin of dorsal sometimes dark. Fins hyaline but dorsal and 

 caudal often with a dark hue. Length over 80 mm. 



Habitat: Singapore; Banka; Bawean; Borneo (Kota Baru!); 

 Kangean !. 



In sea and fresh water. 



2. Clupea (Harengula) brachysoma (Blkr.). 



Sardlndla brachysoma Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852. Haringacht., p. 19. 

 Harengula hypselosoma Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. VIII. 1855, P- 4 2 7- 

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

 Clupea hypselosoma Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 431. 

 Clupea ^Harengula) hypselosoma Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 1872, p. 104. 

 Clupea (^Harengula) brachysoma Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 1872, p. 104. 

 Clupea brachysoma Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 635. 

 Clupea (Harengula} brachysoma Weber & de Beaufort, Verh. Akad. Amsterdam, 

 XVII, NO. 3. 1912, p. 13. 



B. 6; D. 1720; A. 1822; P. 1416; V. 8; L. 1.4445; 

 L. tr. ii 13. 



