Strongylura anostamelia FOWLER, Proc. Acad, Kat, Sci, Phila¬ 
delphia, p. 5, 1919 (Hakodate, Japan). (Error.) 
Strongylura anastomella FOWLER, Hong Kong Naturalist, vol. 3, 
nos. 3 - 4, p. 262, fig. 8, Dec. 1932 (compiled). 
BeIonia ciconia RICHARDSON, Ichth. China Japan, p. 246, 1846 
(type locality: Chinese Seas; Canton). 
Belone esocina BASILEWSKY, Nouv. M&». Soc. Nat. Moscow, vol. 10, 
p. 260, 1855 (type locality: Mari prov. Shandun). 
Mastaoembelus esocina BLEEKER, Nederland Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4 
p. 149, 1873 (compiled). 
Tylosurus esocina CHU, Biol. Bull. St. John’s TJniv., Shanghai, 
no. 1, p. 86, Jan. 1931 (compiled). 
Belone japonica (DODERLEIN) STEINDACHNER and DODERLEIN, Denks. 
Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-nat. Kl., vol. 49, pt. 1, p. 293, 
1885 (name in synonymy). 
Depth 17-1/4 to 22-4/5, compressed; head 2-9/10 to 3-l/8, 
width 7-4/5 to 12-1/3. Snout l-l/3 to in head; eye 12-l/4 to 15-l/5, 
8 to H-l /5 in snout, 1 to 1-3/5 in interorbital; maxillary reaches ^ to 
2/7 in eye, length to maxillary point 2-l/8 to 3-2/5 in rest of head 
posteriorly; canines but slightly inclined backward; interorbital 10 to 
14-4/5, level, with broad depression. 
' • : 
Scales 178 to 190 in median lateral or axial series to caudal 
base; 122 to 125 predorsal forward to occiput; 12 above lateral line to 
dorsal origin; 14 postocular to vertical preopercle ridge. Scales with 
23 to 26 vertical striae each side of median vertical line, more or less 
complete. 
