. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 605 Gill rakers 68 + 90, finely lanceolate, about long as eye; gill filaments % length of gill rakers. Inside edge of gill opening with single notch. Scales 38 to 42 in median lateral series to caudal base and 4 or 5 more on latter; 12 or 13 transversely, 12 to 17 predorsal. Abdominal scutes 16 or 17+12 to 14. Scales firmly adherent, narrowly imbri- cated. Scales with 2 vertical wide spaced parallel striae; 20 to 25 marginal striae apically; circuli fine, vertically parallel. D. Ill, 13 or 1
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 605 Gill rakers 68 + 90, finely lanceolate, about long as eye; gill filaments % length of gill rakers. Inside edge of gill opening with single notch. Scales 38 to 42 in median lateral series to caudal base and 4 or 5 more on latter; 12 or 13 transversely, 12 to 17 predorsal. Abdominal scutes 16 or 17+12 to 14. Scales firmly adherent, narrowly imbri- cated. Scales with 2 vertical wide spaced parallel striae; 20 to 25 marginal striae apically; circuli fine, vertically parallel. D. Ill, 13 or 14, first branched ray 1% to 1% ii^ total head length; A. Ill, 17, first branched ray 3% to 4; caudal 1 to 11/5, strongly forked, slender lobes pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 2l^ to 1%; ventral 21/2 to 22/^. Back slaty brown. On level from upper eye edge till nearly op- posite depressed dorsal end, 5 or 6 short obsolete vertical darker. : FiGDRE 16.—Sardinella dayi Regan : No. 10954, from Mauritius. streaks. Sides and lower surface pale to whitish. Dorsal and cau- dal tinted grayish, tip of former dusky, other fins whitish. India, Mauritius. No. 19954. Mauritius. Captain Page. Length 123 to 156 mm. Gill rakers 56+96, finely setiform. 3 examples. Calicut, India. James Hornell. Length 105 to 106 mm. SARDINELLA ALBELLA (Valenciennes) Kotmla albella Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 362, 1847 (type locality: Pondichcrry). Clupea aliclla Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 424, 1868 (copied). Sardinella hrachysoma Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Haring), vol. 24, p. 19, 1852 (type locality: Batavia, Java).—Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 489, 1905 (Baram, Borneo).—Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 381, 1917 (Madras, Java. Amboina; types of Sardinella Irachysoma and Harenr/ula hi/psclosoina).—Fowler, Hong Kong Nat., vol. 2, p. 117, 1931 (reference).—RoxAS and Martin, Dept. Agr. Comm
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