1284 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes* [Dec. 



placed in casks, and thus exported. In our Malayan Settlements the price 

 is from 3 to 4 Spanish Dollars per hundred. The dealers there export 

 considerable quantities to China, after having taken the precaution to 

 repack the roes between layers of salt, and to sprinkle them with 

 arrack. To dress them, they are soaked for about half an hour in 

 water, and then fried. As the roe appears in commerce, it is of an 

 elongated flat shape, measuring from 6 to 8 inches in length, about 2 

 in breadth, and f of an inch in depth, of a deep amber colour. The 

 single eggs are larger than those of A. ilisha. 



Alausa champil, (Cuv. and Val.) 



(Icon.) Clupea champil, Gray : 111. Ind. Zool. II. PL 91, Fig. 5 and 6. 



Pellona champil, Cuv. and Val. XX. 324. 



Head above, back and upper third of the side pale sea-green, spar- 

 ingly dotted with black ; rest of the body and head silvery with lilac 

 reflections ; from behind the upper part of the opercle to the caudal a 

 pale longitudinal lilac band, the upper margin of which pale silvery ; 

 dorsal, anal and caudal yellowish white, the two first with a black dot 

 at the root of each ray ; caudal minutely dotted with black ; rest of 

 the fins hyaline. Iris silvery with lilac reflections. 



D 16, C 19f, A 18, V 7, P 11, Br. VI. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 



Total length : 3J inch. 



The length of the head is \ of the total ; the horizontal diameter 

 of the orbit is a little less than \ of the length of the head ; the dis- 

 tance across the forehead equals the diameter. The jaws are nearly 

 equal ; the length of the upper slightly exceeds the diameter of the eye. 

 There are no teeth in any part of the mouth. The greatest vertical 

 diameter of the body, in front of the dorsal fin, is contained 3J times 

 in the total length. The sides are covered by 1 1 longitudinal series of 

 scales, of which there are about 42 between the gill-opening and the 

 caudal. The abdominal line carries 29 fine species. The dorsal com- 

 mences a little in front of the centre between the muzzle and the root 

 of the caudal ; the fifth, the longest ray, is f of the length of the head 

 and equal to the extent of the base. The upper margin is straight ; the 

 last ray a little elongated. The caudal lobes are equal, ^ of the total 

 length. The anal commences a little in front of the posterior fourth 



