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B. 6; D. 17 18; A. 41 44; P. 1617; V. 7; L.I. 48 50; 

 L. tr. 14 15. 



Oblong, compressed, ventral profile not much more convex 

 than dorsal profile. Height 3 3 '/ 4 , head 3'/ 5 3 ! / 2 , eye 3 3 1 / 4 , 

 '/ 4 longer than snout, equalling postorbital part of head. Dorsal 

 surface of head with two pairs of slightly diverging ridges. 

 Maxillary reaches middle of eye, about 2 times in head. Oral 

 border of maxillary with a ligament to the posterior end of inter- 

 maxillary. Its posterior end broadly rounded, reaching a little 

 farther than the end of the second supplemental bone. Chin 

 very prominent. Origin of dorsal about midway between snout 

 and base of caudal, 3 / 4 diameter of eye behind origin of ven- 

 trals, which are much shorter than eye and much nearer to 

 anal than to suboperculum. Pectorals about as long as head 

 without snout, reaching to the ventrals. Anal about 3 times 

 in length of body, its origin below hindermost rays of dorsal. 

 Caudal 3 1 / 2 3 3 /4 in length. Teeth on pterygoids, palatines 

 and tongue, a single series of small ones in the jaws. Gill- 

 rakers about 21, ! /3 longer than branchial filaments, shorter 

 than pupil. 28 31 abdominal scutes, 9 n behind ventrals. 

 Scales thin, deciduous, with one vertical line, hindmargin 

 nearly smooth. Colour silvery, back brow.n (in alcohol), fins 

 hyaline. Dorsal and caudal bordered with dark. Length more 

 than 300 mm. 



Nomen indig. : Ikan puput (Bangan Api Api). 



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

 Madura; Singapore; Sumatra (Bagan Api Api!); Bintang; 

 Banka; Borneo (Sambas, Kota barul, Pamangkat); Ambon. 

 British India. 



In sea and mouth of rivers. 



10. Pellona macrogaster (Blkr.) 



Ilisha macrogaster Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 300. 

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

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



B. 6; D. 16; A. 47; P. 15; V. 6 7; L.I. 50; L. tr. 15 16. 



Oblong, compressed, ventral profile, especially anteriorly 

 much more convex than dorsal profile, that of the nape nearly 

 straight. Height 2 4 / 5 , head 3 3 / 4 , eye about 2 ! / 2 , about double 

 as long as snout. Posterior third of the ridges on the upper- 

 surface of the head parallel to each other. Maxillary reaches 



