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The pectoral fin, which has fourteen rays, reaches beyond the root of the ventral 

 fin, covering almost one-fourth of the length of that fin ; there is a broad appendage 

 at the axil of the fin. 



The ventral fin, which is also provided with a broad appendage, has eight rays 

 and reaches half the distance that lies between its root and the anal opening. The 

 anal fin has forty rays. 



The number of scales in the lateral line is forty-five and there are twelve scales 

 along the line of the greatest breadth. 



Colour. — The dorsal side is dark, the middle portion of the body together with 

 the anterior portion of the abdomen silvery, the rest of the body is somewhat pale 

 yellow. The fins are hyaline. 



This species differs from E. annandalei in having a shorter maxillary which reaches 

 only to the gill-opening, a longer pectoral fin reaching beyond the root of the ventral 



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Fig. 4. — Engraulis kempi, Chaudhuri, x 2. 



fin, having a lesser number of scutes, a shorter anal fin, in its shape and both in the 

 dorsal and ventral profile. It resembles E. valenciennesi (Blkr.) in having twenty- 

 three scutes and in the pectoral fin reaching the ventrals, but it differs from that 

 species in the dorsal and the ventral profiles, in having longer ventral fins, a shorter 

 maxillary, in having the dorsal fin nearer to the snout and also in proportions. 



The type specimen, which is 68 mm. in length (without the caudal fin), was 

 caught on i-iii-14 off Barkul in the main area of the lake and is numbered F £^8.2 j n 

 the Indian Museum register. 



There are fifteen co-types of which two were secured on io-iii-14, eight miles N. 

 E. of Patsahanipur, measuring 64 mm. and 61 mm., thirteen at the same place on 

 6-iii-i4 of which three (measuring 59 to 61 mm.) are pale yellow and the rest (measur- 

 ing from 46 mm. to 56 mm.) reddish-brown. 



The species appears to be a permanent inhabitant of the lake, probably breed- 

 ing in it. 



