1062 
Depth 13 to 15 3/4; head 7 3/5 to 91/5, 3 2/5 to 3 3/5 
to vent, width 3 1/8 to 4 In its length; combined head and 
trunk 1 1/8 to 1 3/5 In tall. Snout 6 to 6 1/2 In head; 
eye 8 to 9 1/2, 1 1/8 to 1 4/5 in snout, 1 to 1 1/4 in 
lnterorbltal; mouth, cleft extends eye diameters behind 
eje, length 2 1/o to 2 1/2 in head; teeth in jaws and on 
vomer uniserial; premaxillary with row medially of 6 to 3 de» 
pressible long teeth surrounded by loupi of 10 to dozen large 
teeth; interorbital 7 1/5 to 9, low, broadly convex. Gill 
opening slightly less than eye. 
Dorsal origin opposite last 1/4 to 2/5 in postrictal 
space, fin little higher than anal. 
Light or pale brown, finely marbled, mottled, clouded 
or blotched with darker brown, but markings nowhere sharply 
defined or greatly contrasted. Young with vertical fins 
more whitish marginally. 
Sokotra, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Cargados Carajas, East 
Indies, Philippines, Western Austra.lia, Melanesia, Polynesia, 
Hawaii. 
10528. Cebu market. August 17, 1909. Length 313 mm. 
1 example. Reef opposite Cebu. April 5, 1908. Length 
145 mm. 
