oj the Genera Pomolobu?, Brevoortin, dr. 307 



Depth of body 2| to 'S{ in tlie length, length of head 3^ to 

 4. Parietal ridges narrow, covered with smooth skin in the 

 adult fish. Snout as long as or longer than diameter o£ eye, 

 which is 4^ to 7^ in the length of head ; maxillary extending 

 to below po.sterior part of eye or beyond ; width of operculum 

 from ^ to nearly § of its depth ; 70 to 95 gill-rakers on lower 

 part of anterior arch. About 40 scales in a longitudinal and 

 14 or 15 iu a transverse series ; ventral scutes 17-18 + 11—13. 

 Dorsall7-19. Anal 18-21. Pelvics below middle of dorsal. 

 Caudal lobes, in the adult fish, nearly 1^ as long as head. 



India, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Several examples, 120 to 450 mm. in total length. 



7. Ililsa macrura. 



Alosa viacrurns, Bleek. Verli. Bat. Gen. xxiv. 1852, Haringaclit. p. 31 ; 

 Atl. Ichth. vi. p. 113, Clup. pi. vi, fig. 4 (1872). 



Clupea macrura, Giintli. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 448 (1868) ; Weber & Beau- 

 fort, Fish. Indo-Austral. Arch. ii. p. Go (1913). 



Depth of body 2| to 3j in the length, length of head 4 to 

 4f . Parietal ridges narrow, covered with smooth .'^kin in the 

 adult fish. Snout not longer than diameter of eye, which is 

 4 to 5 in the length of head; maxillary extending to below 

 anterior ^- of eye ; width of operculum ^ its deptli ; 60 to 80 

 giU-rakcrs on lower part of anterior arch. About 45 scales 

 in a longitudinal and 14 or 15 in a transverse series ; ventral 

 scutes 16-18 + 11-15. Dorsal 17-20. Anal 18-21. Pelvics 

 below middle or anterior part of dorsal. Caudal lobes, in the 

 adult fish, nearly twice as lung as head. 



Sunda Islands. 



Three examples, 160 to 350 mm. in total length. 



8. GUDUSIA, Fowler, 1911. 



Froc. Acad. Philadelphia, Ixiii. p. 207. 



Distinguished from Hiha by the smaller scales. 

 Two species from the rivers of India and Burma. 



1. Gudusla chapra. 



Clupanodon chapra.. Ham. Buch. Fish. Ganges, p. 248. 



Cluvea indica, Gray, 111. lud. Zool. j Glinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 444 



(16G8). 

 Alau.sa inicrolejjs, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. xx. p. 439 (1847). 

 Clujyea cluipra, \h\y, F'ish. India, p. 639, pi. clxi. fig. 1 (lS78), 

 Chipea suhia, Chaudhuri, Kec. Ind. Mas. vii. 1912, p. 439, pi. xxxviii 



fig.l. 



• Dej)th of body 2| to 31 in the length, length of head 3^ to 

 3|. Snout shorter than diameter of eye, which is 4 in length 



