FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 635 

 GUDUSIA VARIEGATA (Day) 



CVupea varieguta Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869, p. 623 (type locality: 

 Irrawaddi River, Burma) ; Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 639, pi. 161, fig. 4, 1878 

 (Irrawaddi) ; Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 375, 1889. — Vinciguekra, 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, vol. 9, 1889, p. 350, 1890 (Irra- 

 waddi). — Llotd, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 1, p. 221, 1907 (Akyab). — Jenkins, 

 Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 5, p. 138, 1910. 



Oudusia variegata Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 308, 1917 

 (Burma). — Myers, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 150, p. 1, 1924 (Burma).— Peashad 

 and MuKERji, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 31, pt. 3, p. 209, 1929 (Namsanda 

 stream and Namkawng chaung at Kamaing, Burma). 



Depth 21^ ; head 3%. Snout 5 in head from snout tip ; eye 5, sub- 

 equal with snout, with broad adipose lids; maxillary reaches 3/2 in 

 eye, expansion 1% in eye, length 2i/^ in head; teeth absent, or only 

 very minute ones on tongue ; interorbital equals eye, moderately high ; 

 opercles smooth. 



Scales 90 in median lateral series ; 35 transversely ; larger on belly. 

 Ventral scutes 18 + 10. 



D. Ill or IV, 12 or 13, first branched ray 1% in head; A. iii, 21 to 

 26, fin base I14, first branched ray 4%; caudal 31/4 in rest of body, 

 deeply forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% in head; pectoral 

 11/3 ; ventral 21/2. 



Silvery, glossed with gold and bronze. A dark humeral spot. 

 Row of 18 transverse dark bars across back, descend short way over 

 sides. Dorsal with black band in lower portion of posterior half. 

 End of tail tipped with black. Length, 178 mm. (Day.) 



Burma, in rivers. 



Genus KOWALA Valenciennes 



Kowala Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 362, 1847. (Type, Clupea 



Jcowal RtJppEix, tautotypie.) 

 Clupeoides Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 1, p. 274, 1850. (Type, 



Clupeoides borneensis Bleeker, monot3^ie.) 



Body oblong, compressed, abdominal profile usually more convex 

 than dorsal profile. Ventral scutes prominent. Teeth in jaws, on 

 palatines, vomer and pterygoids. Scales firm, thin. One anal. Ven- 

 tral origin before or below dorsal origin. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a^. Clupeoides. Dorsal origin midway between snout tip and caudal base ; 

 maxillary reaches % in eye. 



&\ Depth 4 or more ; head 4 to 4% ; lateral line 39 to 42. 

 c\ A silvery lateral band ; upper caudal lobe tipped black ; abdominal scutes 



10+7; D. 12 to 14; A. 21 papuensis 



<f. No silvery lateral band ; caudal with black margin ; abdominal scutes 



9+9; D. 15 or 10; A 16 to 18 borneensis 



c*. No silvery lateral band; tips of caudal lobes dark gray; abdominal 

 scutes 10 or 11+9 or 10; D. 14 or 15; A. 17 to 19 exile 



