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

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

 forehead is 1^ diameter. The greatest vertical diameter, in front of the 

 dorsal, is J of the total length. The upper jaw extends beyond the 

 root of the pectorals. The dorsal commences a little behind the centre 

 of the distance between the muzzle and the root of the caudal fin. 

 The caudal lobes are equal, pointed, and as long as the head. The anal 

 commences opposite the posterior third of the dorsal ; the extent of its 

 base is contained about 3| times in the total length. The ventrals 

 commence nearer the pectorals than the anal, their distance from the 

 symphysis of the lower jaw is 2f in the total length. The pectorals are 

 ^ shorter than the head ; placed in contact with the sides, their apex 

 extends to the last ray of the ventrals. At Pinang single individuals occur 

 at all seasons and are eaten by the natives. Sir John Richardson con- 

 siders Clupea malabarica, Bloch. (PL 432. — BL Schn. p. 425) and 

 Poorawah, Russell, CLXXXIX, to be identical with the present species. 

 But according to the description of Engraulis malaharica, (Cuv. and 

 Val. XXI. 63, PL 609) the upper jaw extends very little beyond the 

 margin of the opercle, and does not extend as far as the pectorals, and 

 the latter barely touch the root of the ventrals. The figure of Poora- 

 wah is scarcely correct enough, nor the description (Russell, p. 72,) 

 sufficiently explicit to determine the species. 



Dr. Bleeker has described a new species under the inadmissible name 

 of Thryssa porava, which he with doubt refers to Poorawah, Russell, 

 CLXXXIX. (Bleeker : Bijdrage tot Ichth. Fauna van Madura, in : 

 Verh. Batav. Genoots. XXII. p. 14.) 



Engraulis purava, (Buchan. Hamilton). 



Russell CXC. Peddah Poorawah. 



Clupea purava, Buchan. Hamilt. 238, 382. 



Thrissa (Pedda Poorawah) Cuv. R. A. II. 323 ( 3 ). 



Thrissa megastoma, Swainson, II. 293. 



Engraulis purawa, Cuv. and Val. XXI. 65. 



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

 lateral line ; rest of the sides, abdomen, cheeks and opercles silvery ; 

 fins coloured like those of E. mystaoc. Iris silvery ; orbital margin 

 bluish black. 



D 1/13, C 19|, A 43, 45 or 46, V 7, P 14, Br. XII. 



