B elone gray! BLEEKER, Verh. Batav. Genootsoh. (Nal. Ich. Bengal. 
Hind.), vol. 25, p. 26, 1853 (copied). 
?Esox indica MCCLELLAND, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, 
p. (573) 582, 1842 (type locality* Loodianah). — BLEEKER, Verh. 
Batav. Genootsoh. (Nal. Ich. Bengal. Hind.), vol. 25, p. 24, 1853 
(copied). 
Depth 13-1/3; head (beak ends broken) 2f, width 8 . Snout 1-4/5 in 
head, from end of frontal extension 3-l/5; eye 7 in head, 4 in snout, greater 
than in terorbital; maxillary reaches 1-8 in eye, length from frontal extension 
5 in head; interorbital 8 , level, with broad median cmcave groove. No gill 
rakers; gill filaments 2-l/3 in eye. 
Scales all fallen and pockets largely obliterated. Predorsal 
pockets 130 to occiput. 
D. II, 14, fin height 7 in total head length; A. II, 15, fin 
height 6 jb least depth of caudal peduncle l-l/z in eye; caudal broken off; 
pectoral (damaged) about ^ of postocular; ventral nearly long as eye, fin 
origin slightly nearer vertical edge of preoperole than caudal base. 
Large dull brown (stained greenish). Pale narrow lateral axial 
streak, most distinct between dorsal and anal and width about "4 of eye. 
India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Borneo. % example in very poor 
preservation after many years in a Icohol. 
A. II. 3. P., no. 7571. Ganges River, India* Dr. Marmaduke 
Burroughs Length 138 mm. (Caudal and beak broken). 
Xenentodon c ancil oides (Bleeker) 
