Depth 14 to 16^, body robust, largely cylindrical, caudal 
pedunole compressed; head 2-l/5 to 2-l/3, width 7-l/5 to 8-l/3. Snout 
1-2/5 in head from snout tip; eye 11-1/8 to 13, 7-4/5 to 8-4/5 in snout, 
a 
1 to l-l/6in interorbital; maxillary reaches l/5 to l/4 in eye, length 
to front point 2 to 2^ in head posteriorly; canines inclined little 
posteriorly; interorbital IO4 to 4, level, with moderate and rather deep 
median groove. 
Scales 112 or 113 in lateral axial series to caudal base and 
8 or 9 more on latter; 80 to 92 predorsal forward to occiput; 12 or 13 
on postooular to hind preoperele edge; 10 above lateral line to dorsal 
origin* Scales with 52 to 86 basal parallel circuit, absent apically, 
D, II, 11 or II, 12, first branched ray 5 to 5-l/5 in total 
head length; A, II, 14, first branched ray 4-l/5 to 4-3/5; least depth 
of caudal peduncle l-l/8 to l-l/5 in eye; caudal 3-4/5 to 4^ in total 
head, truncate behind; pectoral 4 to 4-l/8; ventral 6-l/3 to 7, reach 
l'f to 2 to vent* 
Back brown, also head above. Sides and lower surfaces paler 
to whitish, with silvery tinge. Fins all pale brownish, with dark neutral 
gray blotch at pectoral basally and more vivid inside fin. On membranes 
close to each fin ray and on fin ray itself median dusky area, often as 
blackish bordering line. 
East Indies, Philippines, Vanicolo, Santa Cruz Island. Well 
figured by Bleeker and allied with Strongylura strongylura , though dis¬ 
tinguished chiefly by its larger scales and the caudal fin without the 
conspicuous median basal black spot. 
