9 2 



pore; Banka; Borneo (Pamangkat, Sinkawang). China; For- 

 mosa; Japan; British India. 

 In sea and mouth of rivers. 



8. Pellona novacula C. V. 



Pellona novacula Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XX. 1847, p. 319. 

 Ilisha novacula Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 302. All. Ichth. 



VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 120. 

 Pellona novacula Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868. p. 458. 



B. 6; D. 17-18; A. 42; P. 1/15; V. 1/6; L.I. 4550; 

 L. tr. 14 15. 



Greatest convexity of ventral profile below base of pec- 

 torals. Height 3 ! / 2 , head 3 3 / 4 , eye about 4, about equal to 

 snout and nearly half as long as postorbital part of head. 

 The posterior halves of the ridges on the upper surface of the 

 head slightly divergent. Maxillary reaches to below hinder half 

 of eye, nearly twice in head measured with chin. Oral border 

 of maxillary without a supplementary bone (cf. P. hoevenii), 

 but with a ligament instead. Origin of dorsal nearer to root 

 of caudal than to end of snout, far behind ventrals, which 

 are shorter than the eye and situated about in the middle 

 between anal and suboperculum. Pectorals about as long as 

 head without snout, not reaching ventrals. Anal about 3 in 

 length. Its origin below the posterior half of the dorsal. 

 Caudal scaly, deeply incised. Teeth on palatines, pterygoids 

 and tongue. 20 gillrakers, ! / 3 longer than branchial filaments. 

 Scales more or less distinctly striated. 33 abdominal scutes, 

 10 of which postventral. Colour silvery, dark above. Length 

 230 mm. [Bleeker's specimen seen in British Museum]. 



Habitat: Batavia (once recorded by Bleeker). Rangoon; 

 China. 



In sea. 



9. Pellona dussumieri C. V. 



Platygaster megalopterus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish. II. 1830, p. 294. (Name only). 

 Pellona dussumieri Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XX. 1847, p. 316. 

 Pellona Leschenaultii Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIII. 1850, Bijdr. M. en O. 



Java, p. 1 1 (nee C. V.). 



Pellona Kusselli Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852, Haringacht., p. 23, 

 Pellona motius Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 456. (ex parte). 

 Ilisha megaloptertts Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 119. 

 Pellona megalopterus Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 645. 



