Largely dull chocolate to umber br 
with more or less dull uniform 
tinge. Many fine dark or dusky lg^fgitudinal#parallel lines on head and 
body. Sometimes a pale ill #§fined intercfbular band. Edge of opercle or 
gill opening sometimesjharrowly dark, jrris yellowish brown. Caudal spine 
often with groove dusky to blackish#Dorsals, anals and caudal largely 
dusky brown, fojfner 2 fins with nib-row blue border and also narrow basal 
line to same#of each basally. Bjle of caudal with#^ie whitish transverse 
band, variously distinct, often not evidentj#Sometimes clidal with traces 
of dark spots. Paired fins uniformly 
, variously jjlrk to dusky. 
Red Sea, Mauritius, Madagascar, East Indies, Philippines, Riu Kiu, 
fo fy p f Jl A , 
Japan, Micronesia, Hawaii. 
