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Depth 5 2/3 to 6 2/3; head 3 2/3 to 3 3/4, width 2 to 2 l/lO. 
Snout 4 to 4 2/5 in head from snout tip; eye 3 to 3 l/s, much greater than 
snout, l-l to 1 1/3 in interorbital; maxillary reaches 4/5 or to eye, length 
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3|- to 4 in head from snout tip; mandibular barbel 2 2/5 to 2 3/5 in body with 
caudal, broad, band like; teeth scarcely evident; interorbital 2 2/5 to 
2 4/5 in head from snout tip, broad, nearly level. Gill rakers 5 4 - 14, 
lanceolate, slender, 1^ in gill filaments, which 2^- in eye. 
Scales 37 or 38 in lateral or axial series to caudal base and 
4 more on latter, estimated from pockets, (all scales now fallen); 
24 predorsal, 
J,» 10, second branched ray 2 in total head length; A, ^ 7, 
first branched ray 1 7/8 to 2; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 to 4 l/S; 
pectoral rays 11 to 13, fin reaches -g- to 7/8 in dorsal base; ventral 
reaches 2 I /3 to 2 3/5 in space between mandible tip and caudal base, extends 
slightly beyond caudal base; lower caudal lobe 3 2/5 to 3 2/3 in rest of 
body, upper caudal lobe 2 in lower lobe. 
Brown above, sides whitish and under surface grayish dusky, 
soiled or darker on belly. Iris, silvery gray. Band like barbel black 
with narrow white midrib. Vertical fins whitish. Dorsal grayish terminally. 
Caudal with faint gray blotch at end of lower lobe, another medially and 
third basal, also dusky black area at base of upper lobe. Pectoral with 
upper and lower edges whitish, medially black. Ventral black, edges paler. 
East Indies, Polynesia. Gilnther’s speciman was 175 mm. long. 
His description and figure agree in most all details, though the last dorsal 
and anal rays are said to be blackish. 
