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Depth 3 ; head 33/5, width 2. Snout 3% in head ; eye 2%, slightly 

 greater than snout; maxillary reaches about % in eye, length 2 in 

 head; minute teeth in jaws, on vomer, palatines, and pterygoids; 

 interorbital % to % of eye, low. 



Scales 35 in median lateral series; 9 or 10 transversely. Ventral 

 scutes 12+8 (description gives but 11). 



D. m, 12, first branched ray about %o of head; A, iii, 13, first 

 branched ray 2%o; caudal 314 in rest of body, well forked; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2 in head ; pectoral li/4 1 ventral 2. 



Above green, sides yellowish silvery, below silvery. No silvery 

 lateral band. Iris yellowish. Fins hyaline yellowish or yellow. 

 Caudal without dusky or blackish margin. Length, 57 mm. 

 (Bleeker.) 



Borneo, in rivers. 



Subgenus Kowala Valenciennes 



KOWALA VENULOSUS (Weber and Beaufort) 



Clupeoides venulosus Webee and Beautoet, Verb. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 

 17, p, 3, 1912 (type locality: Lorentz River, Dutch New Guinea) ; Fishes 

 Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 58, 1913 (type). 



Depth 3 1/2 ; head 414 to 4%o- Snout little shorter than eye, which 

 3I/2 in head; maxillary reaches nearly or quite opposite front eye 

 edge, nearly 4 in head; premaxillary with very fine teeth, also fine 

 curved series in lower jaw; teeth on tongue, minute on vomer, not 

 on palatines; interorbital little less than eye, very convex. Gill 

 rakers 17, coarse, much shorter than gill filaments, shorter than pupil. 



Scales 38 to 40 in medial lateral series; 12 transversely; surfaces 

 with reticulations. Ventral scutes 12 to 14+8. 



D. 14, height equals head without snout; A. 18, base nearly long 

 as head, longest ray nearly equals postorbital ; caudal deeply forked, 

 inside lobes convex; pectoral long as head without snout; ventrals 

 1/5 shorter, origin % eje> diameter before dorsal. 



Yellowish brown on back, otherwise more silvery, with broad me- 

 tallic blue lateral band. Fins hyaline. Caudal with exception of 

 hind border, dusted dark. Length, 120 mm. (Weber and Beaufort.) 



Dutch New Guinea, in fresh water. 



KOWALA COVAL (Cuvier) 



Clupea coval Cuviee, Regne animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 318, 1829 [on Koival Russell, 



Fishes of Coromandel, vol. 2, p. 170, pi. 186, upper figure, 1803 (type 



locality: Vizagapatam) ]. 

 Clupea kowal RtJppELL, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, p. 79, 1835 (Djedda and Mas- 



saua).— GtJNTHEE, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 450, 1868 (part). 

 Clupea {Harengnla) kowal Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N&'rland., vol. 6, p. 



109, 1866-72 (copied Canton). 

 Harengnla kowal Fowlee, List Fish. Malaya, p. 26, 1938 (reference). 



