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circuli 35 to 38, obsolete apically. Abdominal scutes 10 or 11 + 8 

 or 9. 



D. Ill, 11, 1, first branched ray 1% to 1% in total head length ; A. iii, 

 11+2 or III, 12+2, first branched ray 23/5 to 2%; caudal 1 to li/s, 

 forked, lobes pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 2^5 to 2%; 

 pectoral fi^ to 1%, rays i, 10 ; ventral rays i, 7, fin 1% to 2 in total 

 head length. 



Color pale to whitish, fading pale brown in alcohol. Back above 

 with dark spots or dots. Iris whitish. Dorsal and caudal dusted 

 Avith dark gray. 



Siam. Its distinctions are set forth in the above analysis of species. 

 Greatly like Gorica hUeheri. 



A.N.S.P. No. 61415. Bangkok, Siam. May 1934, R. M. de Schauensee. Length, 



65 mm. Type. 

 A.N.S.P. Nos. 61416-61457 and 60519 to 60551. Bangkok, Siam. May 1934. 



R. M. de Schauensee. Length, 46-53 mm. Paratypes. 

 Two examples. A.N.S.P. Paknam, Siam. May 1934. R. M. de Schauensee. 



Length, 52-58 mm. 



Subgenus Clupeichthys Sleeker 



CORICA GONIOGNATHUS (Bleeker) 



Clupeichthys goniognathiis Bleeker. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 9, 

 p. (260)275, 1855 (type locality: Lahat, Sumatra).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mus., vol. 7, p. 453, 1866 (type).— Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Nt^erland., 

 vol. 6, pi. (6) 264, fig. 1, 1866-72.— VAiLLANT, Notes Leyden Mus., vol. 24, 

 p. 31, 1902.— Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 10, p. 589, 1922 (type 

 of Clupeichthys goniognathus) . 



Corica goniognathus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 6, p. 97, 1866-72 

 (Sumatra). — Weber and Beaxifort, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, 

 vol. 2, p. 55, fig. 21, 1913.— Hardenberg, Treubia, vol. 15, livr. 3, p. 230, 

 1936 (middle course of Kapuas R., Borneo). 



Corica (Clupeichthys) goniognathus Weber and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Aus- 

 tralian Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 55, 1913 (Rivers of East Sumatra; Kapuas 

 River tributaries). 



Depth 3% to 4; head 4 to 41/2. Snout 3 in head from snout tip; 

 eye 3%, Ij^o in snout; maxillaiy reaches 14 iri eye, length 2% in head 

 from snout tip, lower border convex, with submarginal rather long 

 teeth, only points prominent beyond that margin; forms blunt angle 

 with horizontally prominent premaxillary which forms with its 

 counterpart rounded upper border with small median incisure ; thick, 

 symphyseal part of mandible not surpassing snout tip; small teeth 

 on vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue; interorbital less than 

 eye, convex. Gill rakers 19, finely serrulated, shorter than gill fila- 

 ments, which somewhat sliorter than pupil. 



Scales 39 or 40 in medial lateral series, 10 transversely ; hind edges 

 rounded, entire. Ventral scutes 10 + 8. 



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