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 4. Clupeoides borneensis Blkr. 



Clupeoides borneensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie I. 1851, p. 275. 



Clupeoides borneensis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 452. 



Clupea (Clupeoides} borneensis Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 101. 



B. 6; D. 1516; A. 16 18; P. 1213; V. 8 ; L. 1.3942; 

 L. tr. 10 12. 



Subelongate, compressed, dorsal and ventral profile sube- 

 qually convex. Height about 4, about 5 with caudal; head 

 4 4 ! / 3 , 5 5 ! /3 witn C. E y e about 3, longer than snout; 2 

 very indistinct postfrontal striae. Maxillary reaches to below 

 frontmargin of eye, about 2 ! / 9 in head. Origin of dorsal fin 

 midway between the end of the snout and the root of the 

 caudal. Pectorals not shorter than head without snout. Ventrals 

 opposite to dorsal or nearly so. Minute teeth on jaws, vomer, 

 palatines and pterygoids. Scales generally smooth. Eighteen 

 conspicuous abdominal spines, nine being postventral. Silvery, 

 back dark. No silvery band along side. Fins hyaline, caudal 

 with a black margin behind. Length to 80 mm. [Not seen by us]. 



Habitat: Borneo (Banjermassin), fresh water. 



5. Clupeoides papuensis (Ramsay & Ogilby). 



Corica papuensis Ramsay & Douglas Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales ser. 

 2. I. 1886, p. 19. 



D. 1214; A. 21; P. II; V.8; L.I. 40; L. tr. io. Vert. 43. 



Elongate, compressed. Length of head, of caudal fin and 

 height of body equal and 5 2 /. in the total length. Eye 2 5 / G , 

 double as long as snout. Maxillary reaches fully to the middle 

 of the orbit. The origin of the dorsal exactly midway between 

 the point of the snout and the base of the tail. Anal com- 

 mences far behind the termination of the dorsal. Base of ven- 

 trals rather before dorsal. Caudal forked, the lobes equal. 

 Twelve praeventral and 7 postventral abdominal serrated scales. 

 Silvery, with the occiput and a broad longitudinal band steel 

 blue, tip of the upper caudal lobe blackish. Length of the 

 specimen described about 91 mm. [Not seen by us]. 



Habitat: Strickland-river, South New Guinea. 



3. Clupea L. 



(LiNNfe. System, naturae ed. Xa 1758, p. 317. p. p.). 



Oblong, compressed. Scales mostly deciduous, thin, ventral 

 scutes with prominent spines or smooth. Origin of ventrals 



