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Barbus kolus, Sykes. Malay name Ikan-klah. 

 Thynnichthys sandkhol, Sykes, Trans. Zool. Soc. II., p. 363. 

 Dangila burmanica, Day. Malay name Ikan-kawan. 

 Osteochilus chalybeatus, Cuv. and Val. 

 Barilius guttatus, Day. Malay name Ikan-seluang. This 

 genus belongs to a different subdivision of the carps. 



Fam. CLUPEEDJE OR HERRINGS. 



Engraulis setirostris, Brouss. This is a little silvery anchovy 

 with a golden yellow caudal fin. It extends from the Indian 

 Ocean to south China. Named at Saigon Ka-la-tre by Anamite 

 fishermen. 



Engraulis mystax, Bloch. Silvery with greenish back. Cau- 

 dal fin bordered with black, and a large striated black spot 

 behind the operculum. A.t Penang and Singapore specimens 

 about eight inches long are seen all the year round in the markets. 



Engraulis commersonianus, Lacep. The well-known and 

 highly esteemed Ikan-merah or red-fish of the Malays. It is 

 known as white-bait amongst Indo-Europeans, and is captured in 

 the Indian seas in great numbers. Day says it attains to eight 

 inches in length, but I have never been able to obtain one more 

 than half that size. 



Engraulis indicus, Hasselt. This fish is united with the 

 preceding by Cantor as one species ; but the red-fish is silvery, 

 greenish above, a large black spot, sometimes indistinct, just behind 

 the occiput, with a broad silvery band along the sides from the 

 gills to the tail. E. indicus has very much the same colors, and 

 is in fact difficult to distinguish; but the snout projects more, and 

 the maxilla is truncated opposite the mandibular joint, while in 

 the true red-fish it reaches the gill-opening. 



Clupea brachysoma, Bleeker, = Kowala thoracata, Cantor, 

 = Alosa kowal, Gunther. This fish is the species described by 

 Cantor, says Mr. Day, and is known from the east coast of Africa 

 through the seas of India, the Archipelago and south China. 



