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Depth 17, body partly cylindrical, caudal peduncle deeper than 
wide; head 3 - 5 , width 7-1/5. Snout 1-3/5 in rest of head; eye ll-l/5 
in head from snout tip, 7-l/5 in snout, l-l/8 in interorbital; maxillary 
reaches ^ in eye, length to anterior point 2-7/8 in rest of head posteriorly; 
canines slightly inclined posteriorly; interorbital 9fj in head from snout 
tip, level, with long wide depression. 
Scales 300 in median or lateral axial series to caudal base; 
206 predorsal fonward to occiput; 15 above lateral line to dorsal origin; 
19 on postocular to hind preopercle edge. Scales with 38 to 42 parallel 
vertical striae, more or less complete. 
D. II, 14, I, first branched ray 4-4/5 in total head length; 
A. II, 17, I, first branched ray 5-l/8; least depth of caudal peduncle 
1-2/5 in eye; caudal 4 in total head length, hind edge concave?; pectoral 
4-l/5; ventral 6-3/5, reaches 2-7/8 to vent. 
Back and top of head brown, sides and lower surfaces pale to 
whitish, evidently silvery white when fresh. Obscure silvery streak, 
not wider than pupil, from shoulder till below dorsal, where expanded 
2/3 vertical eye diameter in width. Fins all brownish. 
Micronesia (Yap and Panopa) and Polynesia (Ellice and Society 
Islands). Near Strongylura inoisa , though with some very diverse dis¬ 
tinctions as the fewer (14) branched dorsal rays, increased lateral 
scales (300) in lateral series. In the character of the wide depression 
on the top of the head, with the somewhat convex areas on each side, it 
agrees largely with S5^ incisa, 
U.S.N.M. no. 83424, Type. Tahiti. Wilkes Exploring Expedition. 
Length 640 mm. (Beak and caudal tips damaged). In the original descrip¬ 
tion head erroneously given as 5-l/3. 
