8 9 



reaching to ventrals in adults. Anal about 3 times in length, 

 its origin below base of last dorsal ray. Caudal scaly, about 

 3 ! / 2 in length. Teeth on palatines, pterygoids and tongue, 

 small ones in a single series in jaws. Gillrakers 24, almost ! / 2 

 longer than filaments, as long as pupil. Scales deciduous, thin, 

 with some vertical lines and an irregularly crenulated hind- 

 margin. 26 28 abdominal scutes, 8 9 being postventral. 

 Colour silvery, back brownish (in alcohol), fins hyaline, dorsal 

 and caudal powdered with brown. Length about 160 mm. 



Nomen indig. : Dero. juveniles: Longlong mata (Java). 



Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Samarang, Surabaya, Pasaruan, 

 Kendal ! Palabuan Batu !) ; Sumatra (Benkulen, Tiku, Priaman 

 Bagan api api!) Madura; Singapore; Banka. Westward 



to coast of East- Africa. 



In sea. 



5. Pellona pristigastroides Blkr. 



Pellona pristigastroides Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852, Haringacht, p. 20. 

 Pellona pristigastroides Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 459. 

 Ilisha pristigastroides Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872. p. 12 1. 



B. 6; D. 17; A. 40; P. 15; V. 6; L.I. 50; L. tr. 1415. 



Oblong, compressed, ventral profile especially anteriorly 

 much more convex than dorsal profile, that of the nape concave. 

 Height 3'/ 4 , head 4 ! / 4 , eye 4, about equal to snout, much 

 shorter than postorbital part of head. Posterior halves of the 

 ridges on the upper surface of the head slightly divergent 

 behind. Maxillary reaches to middle of eye, about twice in head, 

 its oral border without supplemental bone (cf. P. hoevenii] 

 but with a ligament in stead. Origin of dorsal nearer to caudal 

 than to snout, far behind origin of ventrals, which are rudi- 

 mentary and a little nearer to anal than to suboperculum. 

 Pectorals about as long as head without chin, reaching farther 

 than ventrals. Anal 2*/ 2 , its anterior part opposite to nearly 

 the entire dorsal. Caudal scaly, deeply incised, 5 in length. 

 16 gillrakers, spinulous all round, longer than branchial fila- 

 ments; equal to half eye. Scales sometimes with transverse 

 lines, their hindmargin convex and smooth. 35 abdominal 

 scutes, 12 of which behind ventrals. Silvery, yellowish or bluish 

 above, fins hyaline, margin of caudal powdered with brown. 

 Length more than 180 mm, [Type in British Museum exa- 

 mined]. 



