1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1273 



Gen. Pellona, Valenciennes, 1847. 

 (Platygaster,* Swainson, 1839.) 

 Teeth in the jaws, on the palate, pterygoid bones and on the tongue, 

 but not in the vomer ; body compressed ; ventrals in front of the dor- 

 sal ; anal elongated ; abdomen strongly toothed ; air-vessel communi- 

 cating with oesophagus by a small tube inserted at the extremity of 

 the stomach. 



Pellona affinis, (Swainson.) 



(Icon.) Clupea affinis, Gray: Illustr. Ind. Zool. I, PI. 96. 



Platygaster affinis, Swainson, II. 294. 



Clupea (Ilisha) affinis, Richardson, Report: 1845, 206. Note. 



Pellona grayana, Cuv. and Val. XX. 315. 



Head above and back greyish green minutely dotted with black ; 

 lighter, silvery above the lateral line; rest of the sides, abdomen, 

 cheeks and opercles silvery; dorsal, caudal and anal yellow; the 

 external half of the two former minutely dotted with black ; rest of 

 the fins hyaline. Iris silvery, orbital margin blackish. 



D 16, C 191, A 50 to 52, V 7, P 15, Br. VI. 



Habit.— Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula, Singapore. 

 China Sea, Bay of Bengal. 



Total length : 1 ft. 



The length of the head is £ of the total. The horizontal diameter 

 of the eye is A\ in the length of the head ; the distance across the 

 forehead slightly exceeds one diameter. The greatest vertical diameter, 

 in front of the dorsal, is 3f in the total length. The dorsal commences 

 in the middle between the muzzle and the centre of the posterior 

 caudal margin. The caudal lobes are equal : \ of the length of the 

 head. The anal commences opposite the posterior fourth of the dorsal. 

 The small ventrals are situated opposite the second third of the dis- 

 tance between the muzzle and the root of the caudal. Smaller indi- 

 divuals of this species are numerous at Pinang at all seasons, and are 

 consume4 fresh or dried by the natives. 



* Preoccupied by Platygaster, Latreille, 1809 (Hymenoptera) . 



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