a) 
dorsal to caudal one diameter of eye longer than its distance 
from point of snout. Its base shorter than its height, which 
equals head without snout. Pectorals as long as head without 
snout, ventrals nearly '/; shorter. Their origin ?/, eye diameter 
before origin of dorsal. Base of anal nearly as long as head. 
Its longest ray about as long as postorbital part of head. 
Caudal deeply forked, innerside of its lobes convex. Lower 
jaw with a series of fine curved teeth. Intermaxillary with 
very fine teeth. Teeth on tongue, and minute ones on the 
vomer, not perceptible on palatines. Gillrakers 17, coarse, much 
shorter than filaments, distinctly shorter than pupil. Pseudo- 
branchiae present. Surface of scales with reticulated lines, those 
on the flanks also striated. Serration on abdomen more per- 
ceptible to touch than visible, sharper in young specimens. 
Between pectorals and ventrals 12—14 scutes, postventral 
about 8, which are a little stronger. Yellowish brown on the 
back, otherwise more silvery, with a broad metallic blue lateral 
band. Fins hyaline. Caudal with exception of its hindborder, 
dark powdered. Length up to 120 mm. 
Habitat: Lorentz-river, Dutch South New Guinea. 
In freshwater. 
3. Clupeoides hypselosoma Blkr. 
Clupeoides hypselosoma Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 293. 
Clupeoides hypselosoma Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 451. 
Clupea (Clupeoides) potamophilus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth, VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 101. 
Bon Damp Ast6; Ps 13; V. 8s Lakig5—375- Ltr. 9—10. 
Oblong, compressed, ventral and dorsal ‘profile subequal. 
Height a little more than 3, about 4 with caudal, head about 
3°/,, about 4°/, with caudal. Eye about 3, longer than snout. 
Two or 3 indistinct postfrontal striae. Maxillary reaches 
beyond frontmargin of eye, 2'/, in head. Origin of dorsal fin 
midway between the end of the snout and the root of the 
caudal. Pectorals a little shorter than head without snout. 
Origin of ventrals opposite to origin of dorsal. Very small 
teeth on jaws, vomer, palatines and pterygoids. Scales not or 
almost not striated, hindmargin smooth. Eleven abdominal 
scutes, 7 of which are postventral and have slender curved 
spines. More or less silvery, back darker. No silvery lateral 
band. Fins hyaline. Length of single specimen known (British 
Museum): 57 mm. [Not seen by us]. 
Habitat: Borneo (Banjermassin), freshwater. 
