Depth 14-|- to 14-4/5,,strongly compressed, deepest about anal origin? 
head 3-| to 3-7/8, width 7-l/8 to 8-l/5* Snout 1-g- to 1-3/5 in head} eye 
8-4/5 to 9^, 6-l/5 to 7 in snout, 1 to l-l/8 in interorbital; maxillary 
reaches eye, length to point in front 2^ to 3^ in head posteriorly; canines 
small, more or less inclined little backward; interorbital 9 to 10 in head 
from snout tip, with broad median depression. 
Scales 445 to 470 in lateral axial series to caudal base; 350 to 360 
predorsal forward to occiput; 25 above lateral line to dorsal origin; 14 
or 15 on postocular to preopercle ridge. Scales with 20 to 27 vertical 
parallel striae each side of median vertical line, none continuous, at 
least in small or young. 
D. II, 22 or II, 23, first branched ray 4-4/5 to 6 in head to snout 
tip; A. II, 22 to II, 24, first branched ray 4 to 4-l/5; least depth of 
caudal peduncle 1-2/3 to 1^ in eye; caudal 2-4/5 to 3-2/3 in head, well 
forked; pectoral 3-l/5 to 4; ventral to 4-7/8. 
Back brown, sides and lower surfaces bright silvery white. Pale 
bluish band along edge of dark color of back and in band dozen or more dark 
or dusky blotches. Iris silvery white. Fins all more or less brownish, 
lobes of dorsal and find anal, and pectoraL ends, dusky to blackish. 
Red Sea, Natal, India, Philippines, Formosa, Japan, Queensland, 
New South Wales, Hawaii. 
A437. Manila market. March 12, 1908. Length 434 mm. 
A437. Manila market. March 13, 1908. Length 427 mm. 
Genus Xenentodon Regan 
Xenentodon REGAN, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 7, p. 332, 1911. 
(Type Belone cancila BUCHANANAHAMILTON, designated by JORDAN Genera 
of Fishes, pt. 4, p. 540, 1920.) 
