Depth 12, body elongated, compressed, little higher 
than wide; head 3 1/4. Snout 4 2/3 in length of body; eye 2 
in postorbital, rather over 1 in Interorbltal; upper jaw rather 
v/ider than long, not long as eye; upper surface of head flat, 
D, 9, first ray inserted over fifth anal ray; A, 15, 
base not twice that of dorsal, fin not lower than body, lower 
edge concave; caudal rounded, (Day.) 
India, Differs from all the known species of the 
genus in its short premaxillary so that triangular upper Jaw 
wider than long. 
