86 



suboperculum. Anal 2'/ 2 in length. 

 Greatest convexity of abdominal profile 



before base of pectorals P. macrogaster p. 93. 



0. Ventrals situated midway between anal 

 and suboperculum. Anal 2 2 / 3 2 3 / 4 . 

 Greatest convexity of abdominal pro- 

 file between pectorals and ventrals. . . P. xanthoptera p. 94. 



i. Pellona hoevenii Blkr. 



Pellona Hoevenii Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852. Haringacht., p. 21. 

 Pellona hoevenii Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 455. 

 Ilisha Hoevenii Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 117. 

 Pellona Hoevenii Day, Fishes of India 4. 18781888, p. 644. 



B. 6; D. 1718; A. 3337J *> 18; V. 7; L.I. 4045; 

 L. tr. 12 13. 



Oblong, compressed, lower profile not much more convex 

 than dorsal. Height 2 3 / 4 3, head 3 3 ! / 4 e Y e 23 /4~ 3> ! /4 

 longer than snout, about as long as postorbital part of head. 

 On each side of the head a pair of parallel lines, which 

 diverge hindwards, till a point on the occiput where the two 

 lines meet in one ridge which converges hindwards with that 

 of the other side. Maxillary reaches about to below the middle 

 of eye, 2 in head. Its oral border is supplemented by a small 

 toothed bone, which reaches from the lateral end of the 



intermaxillary to the promi- 

 nent middle of the maxillary. 

 There are two dorsal supple- 

 mental bones, the larger of 

 which reaches nearly to the 

 hindborder of the maxillary. 



I Origin of dorsal midway be- 



tween caudal and snout or a 



Fig. 29. Pellona noevenit Blkr. 



little nearer to the lastnamed, 



i Intermaxillary, maxillary, / ossified & j.^ ^.^ ^ jn Q{ yen _ 

 ligament between them, s r supplemental . * 



bones X 3- trals, which are situated much 



nearer to anal than to suboper- 

 culum. Ventrals much smaller than eye. Pectorals shorter than 

 head without snout, not reaching to ventrals. Anal 3 ! / a 3 2 / 3 in 

 length (without caudal), its origin below or a little before 

 base of last dorsal ray. Caudal scaly, deeply incised nearly as 

 long as head. Teeth on palatines, pterygoids, tongue and small 



