1086 
Depth 12 1/3 to 21 2/3; head 5 4/5 to 8, 3 1/4 to 3 
2/3 to vent, width 3 to 4 1/2 in its length; combined head 
and trunk 1 to 1 1/4 in tail. Snout 5 to 6 in head; eye 
7 2/3 to 11 1/2, 1 2/5 to 2 in snout, slightly greater than 
interorbital in young to 1 1/3 with age; mouth cleft extends 
1 1/8 to 2 eye diameters behind eye, length 2 to 2 1/4 In 
head; teeth uniserial in jaws and on vomer, young with inner 
maxillary row medially of 1 to 3 large depressible teeth; 
premaxillary with row of 3 large median depressible teeth 
surrounded by outer loup of dozen smaller ones, though larger 
than maxlllaries; Interorbital 7 to 11 1/4* convex. Gill 
opening long as eye. 
Brown, aften paler below. Very variable with several 
irregular rows longitudinally of variable rounded or oval 
black spots, often larger than eye, or smaller or absent from 
head or on tail often as transverse rows. Sometimes spots 
confluent, densely reticulated or marbled with brown or pale 
intervening spaces may be contracted to form strong contrast¬ 
ed network of light or even whitish lines. Fins sometimes w ith 
light border. 
Red Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, Natal, Mauritius, Madagascar, 
India, Ceylong, Singapore, East Indies, Philippines, China, 
Formosa, Riu Kul, Japan, Queensland, Western Australia, Mel¬ 
anesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Hawaii. 
