976 . 
Depth 7 l/5 to 8; head 5 3/4 to 5 4/5, width 1 3/4 to 1 4/5. 
Snout 4 l/2 to 5 l/5 in head, 1 l/2 to 2 in eye; eye 2 l/2 to 3 1/8 in 
head; preoral length 5 l/5 to 5 l/2; maxillary reaches 3/4 to 4/5 in 
eye, length from front end 1 2/3 to 1 3/4 in head; mandibular barbel 
feeble, 1/4 of eye; teeth minute, in narrow villiform bends in jaws, 
lower narrower; interorbital 3 l/2 in head, low, cavernous, irregularly 
concave. Gill rakers 4+17 short elevate spinesoent tubercles on 
second arch, 2/5 of gill filaments, which l/4 of eye. 
Scales all fallen and pockets little distinct so squmation 
not made out; 4? above lateral line. 
D. II , 8 or II, 9 _ 1 20, second simple ray slender, length 1 
l/5 to 1 2/5 in head; interorbital space 1 2/5 to 1 3/5; A. 110, fin 
f ' 
height 2 2/3; pectoral fin rays I, 13, fin 1 4/5 in head, first ray 
filamentous* 
Light brown. *>ides of head and trunk silvery white. Under 
surface of head and belly grayish. Within gill opening outer faces of 
isthmus with numerous fine parallel close set vertical striaw, over 
gray or coppery gray* Breast coppery and conspicuous round white 
blotch before each ventral fin base, last of which strongly contrasted 
blackish brown* Striated area from within gill opening also extended 
back on upper side of chest and then continuous over belly behind vent¬ 
ral fin bases. Median dark pit before ventral bases with small lens¬ 
like body. Black ring around vent. Fins all paler or lighter than 
body. Iris whitish or silvery. 
East Indies, Philippines, Japan. A strongly marked species, 
easily known by its poculiar striated surfaces of the isthmus, sides 
of breast and belly, in combination with its contrasted coloration. 
