FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 717 



caudal ; caudal pointed, equals head posterior to nostrils ; 6 filaments 

 reach posterior to anal origin, longest 3 in standard length ; ventral 

 rays 7, length 2xV in head. 



Color silvery, without spots, somewhat brownish above. No sil- 

 very lateral stripe. Length, 250 mm. (Jordan and Seale.) 



China. 



COILIA COOMANSI Hardenberg 



Coilia coomansi Haedenberg, Treubia, vol. 14, livr. 3, p. 294, 1934 (type locality: 

 Lower course of the Kapuas River, western Borneo) ; vol. 15, livr. 3, p. 

 228, 1936 (Peniti River; Pontiauak; Telok Pekadai, Borneo). 



Depth 5, dorsal profile straight from snout to dorsal and straight 

 from dorsal to caudal, the two lines forming very blunt angle below 

 dorsal ; head 5. Snout prominent, somewhat shorter than eye ; max- 

 illary pointed, reaching to end of preopercle. Lower gill rakers 

 33, more than twice long as branchial filaments. 



Scales 60 in lateral series; 10 transversely. Abdominal scutes 13 

 or 14 + 9 or 10. 



D. I, III, 15, predorsal length to snout tip about twice in length of 

 anal ; A. 90 ; pectoral rays 18, about long as eye and snout, and with 

 10 free rays reaching beyond anal origin; ventral rays 6 or 7, in- 

 serted just before dorsal origin, somewhat shorter than postocular 

 part of head. 



Yellowish with a golden hue. Back pigmented. Dorsal somewhat 

 blackish, other fins hyaline. 



Length, 130 mm. (Hardenberg.) 



East Indies. 



COILIA POLYFILIS Volz 



Coilia polyfilis Volz, Zool. Anz., vol. 26, p. 559, 1903 (type locality: Banju asin, 

 Sumatra) ; Zool. Jahrb., Abtli. syst, vol. 19, p. 408, 1904 (type).— Webeb 

 and Beaufokt, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 52, 1913 

 (compiled). 



Depth 5 in total ; head 5. Eye 5l^ in head ; maxillary reaches gill 

 opening, expanded behind between penultimate and last fifth its 

 length, then tapers rapidly. Lower gill rakers 28, long as eye. 



Scales ? Preventral rounded, postventral sharp. 



D. 13, space between origin and snout tip 4 times in total length ; 

 pectoral with 11 free rays, reaching anal origin. Length, 110 mm. 

 (Volz.) 



Sumatra. 



COILIA BORNEENSIS Sleeker 



Coilia horneensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 2, p. 58, 1851 

 (type locality: Bandjermassing) ; vol. 20, p. 102, 1859-60 (Bangkok) ; Versl. 

 Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 16, p. 3.^3, 1864 (Bangkok) ; Neder- 

 land. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, p. 176, 1865 ( Siam ) .— Guntheb, Cat. Fishes 

 British Mus., vol. 7, p. 403, 1868 (type).— Day, Pishes of India, pt. 4, p. 632, 



