1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1289 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula. 

 Malabar, Pondicherry. 



Total length : 6 inch. 



Measured to the upper part of the posterior margin of the opercle, 

 the length of the head is contained 6§ times in the total, (to the occiput 

 it is 9f in the total.) The horizontal diameter of the eye is J of the 

 length of the head ; the distance across the forehead is 1^ diameter. 

 The greatest vertical diameter of the body, in front of the dorsal, is 4 J 

 in the total length. The dorsal commences a little in front of the middle 

 between the muzzle and the root of the caudal. The anal commences 

 opposite the centre of the dorsal ; the extent of the base is 2f in the total 

 length. The ventrals are situated in the centre between the first pec- 

 toral and the fifth anal ray. The upper caudal lobe is truncated. The 

 first pectoral ray is If in the total length : it reaches to the posterior 

 third of the anal ; the second pectoral ray is 3^ in the length of the 

 first. Single individuals occur at Pinang at all seasons, and are eaten 

 either fresh or dried by the natives. 



(Thrissa, Rafin. 1815. — Maxillaries greatly elongated.) 

 Engraulis mystax, (Bloch-Schneider). 



Clupea mystax, Bl. Schn. 426, No. 14, PI. 83. 



Thryssa mystax, Cuv. R. A. II. 323 ( 3 ). 



Thryssa mystax, Richardson: Report, 1845, 309 (Excl. Syn. Clupea 

 malabarica and Poorawah, Russell, 189?) 



Engraulis mystax, Cuv. and Val. XXI. 67. 



Head above and back dark bluish green ; lighter silvery on the sides 

 above the lateral line ; behind the upper part of the gill-opening a trian- 

 gular spot, composed of horizontal, black, dotted Hues, downwards in- 

 creasing in length ; rest of the sides and abdomen silvery white ; cheeks 

 and opercle silvery with golden reflections ; dorsal and caudal whitish 

 yellow, marginal half minutely dotted with black ; rest of the fins 

 whitish transparent. Iris silvery, orbital margin bluish black. 



D 1/13, C 19f, A 37, 38 or 39, V 7, P 14, Br. XII. 



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



Bombay, Malabar, Coromandel, Gangetic estuaries. 



Total length : 8 inch. 



8 c 2 



