588 ^h: C. T. Regan on Clxpeid Fishes. 



1. KowALA, Cuv. & Viil., 1847 

 (type Kowala thoracata, Cuv. & Val.). 



Noar Harengula, but with a single broad supraniaxillary 

 (supplemental bone) and with a silvery lateral band. Abdo- 

 minal serrature begins at isthmus. Scales with complete 

 transverse grooves. 



A single species. 



I am indebted to Dr. Pellegrin for com|)aring the types of 

 Kotoala thoracata and Meletta lile, and tor the inforn)atiou 

 that they are the same species. 



Kowala thoracata. 



Kowala thoracata, Cuv. & Val. xx. p. 863 (1847). 

 Meletta lUe, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 378. 

 Vlupea Hie, Gunth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 450 (1868). 



Clupeoides tile, Weber & Beaufort, Fish. Indo-Austral. Arch. ii. p. .57 

 (1913). 



Depth 2§ to 3^ in the length, length of head 4 to 4^. 

 Diameter of eye 3 to 3^ in length of head. Maxillary 

 extending to below anterior ^ of eye. Scales 40/10-11. 

 Scutes 17-19 + 9-12. Dorsall4^17. Anal 17-22. Pelvics 

 8-rayed, inserted below or a little in advance of origin of 

 dorsal. 



Kurrachee to New Guinea. 



Thirty specimens, up to 120 mm. in total lengtli. 



Weber and Beaufort (Verhand. Akad. Amsterdam, (2) 

 xvii., 1913) state that in this species the median scales 

 between the head and the dorsal fin are keeled scutes. I 

 find that tiie median scales are quite thin and that the 

 appearance of a keel is due to the underlying series of supra- 

 neural bones, tlie edges of which reach the dorsal profile. 



Clupeoides, Bleek., 1851 

 (type C. borneensis, Bleek.). 



Near Kowala, but supraniaxillary not so large, abdominal 

 serrature beginning behind thorax, and scales with only one 

 transverse groove, the rest radiating. 



Rivers of Borneo and New Guinea. 



Four species — C. borneensis^ Bleek., C. hypselosoma, Bleek., 

 C. veniilosus, Weber and Beaufort, and C. papuetisis, liani- 

 .say and Ogilby (c/. Weber and Beaufort, Fish. Indo-Austral. 

 Arcli. ii. p. 57). 



