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teeth on jaws, palatines and tongue. Scales smooth. Eighteen 

 distinct abdominal spines, six being postventral. Silvery, back 

 dark, fins hyaline. Twenty two slender gillrakers, conspicu- 

 ously longer than branchial filaments and pupil. Length 5 i mm. 



(Types of Bleeker in bad state; compared in British and in 

 Leyden Museum). 



Habitat: Borneo (Pamangkat, Kapuas, Knapei). 



Subgenus: Clupeichthys Blkr. 

 2. Corica (Clupeichthys) goniognathus (Blkr.). 



Clupeichthys goniognathus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. IX. 1855, p. 275. 

 Clupeichthys goniognathus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 453. 

 Corica goniognathus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 97. 

 Clupeichthys goniognathus Vaillant, Notes Leyden Mus. XXIV. 1902, p. 31. 



Fig. 21. Corica goniognathus (Blkr.). 



i Intermaxillary, m Maxillary, I, 2 supplemental bones 5 stipped line a 

 shows the border of the infraorbital. 



B. 6; D. 1516; A. 1617 + 2; P. 11 13; V. 8; L. 1. 

 3940; L. tr. 10. 



Elongate, ventral profile more convex than the dorsal, which 

 is very little curved. Height 4, nearly 5 with caudal, head 4 A^\ v 

 5 5 ! / 2 with caudal. Eye about 3 J / 2 i n head, as long as snout, 

 about ! / 4 smaller than length of postorbital part of head. Inter- 

 orbital space convex, smaller than eye. No postfrontal striae. 

 Maxillary narrow, 2 2 / 5 in head, reaching frontmargin of pupil. 

 Its lower border convex, with submarginal, rather long teeth, 

 only the points of which are prominent beyond that margin. It 

 forms a blunt angle with the horizontally prominent inter- 

 maxillary which forms with its counterpart a rounded upper 



