636 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



&*. Depth less than 4 ; head 3% to 3% ; lateral line 35 to 37 hypselosoma 



o^ KowALA. Dorsal origin nearer snout tip than caudal base ; a silvery lateral 

 band ; D. 15 or 16 ; A. 18. 



d\ Depth 2% to 2% ; eye 3% in head ; maxillary scarcely reaches eye ; 



8 postventral scutes venulosus 



d''. Depth 2% to 3; eye 3 in head; maxillary reaches % in eye; 11 post- 

 ventral scutes coval 



Subgenus Clupeoides Bleeker 



KOWALA PAPUENSIS (Ramsay and Ogilby) 



Corica papuensis Ramsay and Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. Nevp South Wales, ser. 2, 

 vol. 1, p. 19, 1886 (type locality: Strickland River, New Guinea). 



Clupeoides papuensis Weber and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, 

 vol. 2, p. 60, 1913 (compiled).— FowLEK, Mem. Bishop, Mus. vol. 10, p. 31, 1928 

 (compiled) ; vol. 11, No. 5, p. 315, 1931 (Strickland River materials). 



Body compressed, elongate; head 5% in total. Snout 2 in eye; 

 eye 2% in head ; maxillary reaches ^ in eye ; interorbital % of eye. 



Scales 40 in medial lateral series; 10 transversely. Abdominal 

 scutes 12 + 7. 



D. 12 to 14, origin midway between snout tip and caudal base, 

 rather behind ventral bases; A. 21, begins far behind dorsal end, 

 without detached rays ; caudal forked, lobes equal ; pectoral rays 11 ; 

 ventral rays 8 ; vertebrae 43. 



Silvery, occiput and broad longitudinal band steel blue. Tip of 

 upper caudal lobe blackish. Length, 91 mm. (Ramsay and Ogilby.) 



New Guinea. Type in Australian Museum. 



KOWALA BORNEENSIS (Bleeker) 



Clupeoides tomeensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 1, p. (260) 

 275, 1850 (type locality: Bandjermassing, Borneo) ; vol. 2, p. 417, 1851 

 (Sambas) ; Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Haring.), vol. 24, p. 17, 1852 (Band- 

 jermassing) ; Act. Soc. Sci. N^erland., vol. 2, No, 6, p. 4, 1857 (Kahajan, 

 Borneo) ; Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, pi. (4) 262, fig. 2, 1866-72.— 

 GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 7, p. 452, 1868 (type). — Weber and 

 Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 60, 1913 (com- 

 piled).— Hardenberg, Treubia, vol. 14, livr. 2, p. 213, 1933 (Musi R.) ; vol. 15, 

 livr. 3, p. 230, 1936 (Kapuas R., Borneo). 



Clupea {Clupeoides) lomeeyisis Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, p. 

 100, 1866-72 (Borneo). 



Depth 3%; head 4%, width 21/^. Snout 3% in head from snout 

 tip; eye 3% subequal with snout; maxillary reaches 14 in eye, length 

 2^^ in head from upper jaw tip; minute teeth in jaws, on vomer, 

 palatines and pterygoids ; interorbital % to % of eye, low. 



Scales 40 to 42 in median lateral series, 10 or 11 transversely. 

 Ventral scutes 9 + 9. 



