74 



in head. Many diverging postfrontal striae. Dorsal situated 

 midway between caudal and snout, its height about twice in 

 the height of the body. Anal much longer than half head. 

 Pectorals a little shorter than head without snout. Ventrals 

 below middle of dorsal. Caudal about 4 ] / 2 m length. Minute 

 teeth in the lower jaw, none on upper jaw, tongue and ptery- 

 goids, small ones on palatines. Scales very deciduous, scarcely 

 or not all transversely striped, 30 very conspicuous abdominal 

 scutes. Dark above, silvery below, fins hyaline. Length 145 mm. 

 [Not seen by us]. 



Nomen in dig. : bulan, lintring (Javan., Madur.). 



Habitat: Java (Surabaya); Madura. 



In sea. 



6. Clupea (Harengula) perforata (Cant.). 



Clupeonia perforata Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XVIII. 1850, p. 1276. 

 Spratella kowala Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. II. 1851, p. 492. 

 Harengula (Spratella) kowala Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam (2) II. 1868, 



p. 294. 



Chtpea perforata Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 424. 

 Clupea {Harengula} perforata Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 1872, p. no. 

 Sardinclla perforata Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1911, p. 206. 



B. 6; D. 1719; A. 1819; P. 1415; V. 8; L.I. 4344; 

 L. tr. 12 13. 



Abdominal profile more convex than the dorsal. Height about 

 3; head 4 to nearly 4'/ 2 ; eye 3 3 1 / 2 > a little smaller than postor- 

 bital part of head, as long as snout or a little longer. Maxillary 

 reaches to frontmargin of pupil, 2 2 1 /, in head; 8 14 post- 

 frontal diverging striae. Operculum a little more than two 

 times higher than broad, venulous, praeoperculum indistinctly 

 ernarginated rounded below, suboperculum oblong quadrangular, 

 lower posterior corner rounded, two times as long as high. 

 Dorsel nearer to caudal than to snout. The distance of its 

 origin to caudal is i'/ 3 its distance from the snout. Its base 

 is a little longer than head without its postorbital part. Its 

 height is slightly more than its length. Base of anal longer than 

 base of dorsal. Pectorals 3 / 4 of head. Ventrals below end of 

 first third of dorsal. Caudal scaly, deeply forked, longer than 

 head, its length 4*/ 2 4 3 / 4 in total length. Teeth on palatines 

 and tongue only. Gillrakers 56 58, longest 3 / 5 eye, half as 

 long as postorbital part of head. Scales adherent, with one 



