1044 . 
Depth 7 to 8 l/2; head 6 l/4 to 6 3/4, width 2 l/5 to 2 l/4. 
Snout 3 l/8 to 3 l/5 in head; eye 3 l/4 to 3 2/5, 1 to 1 l/lO in snout; 
preoral profile nearly vertical, length 4 3/4 to 5 in head; maxillary 
reaches l/5 to l/4 in eye, length from front end 3 to 3 l/5 in head; 
mandibular barbel 1 l/2 to 1 3/4 in eye; teeth minute, in villifom 
bands in jaws, of 5 or 6 irregular series; interorbital 4 to 4 l/5 in 
head, 1 l/5 to 1 l/4 in eye, low, depressed concavely in middle. Gill 
rakers 0+8 low spinescent tubercles on second arch, l/3 of gill fila¬ 
ments, which l/3 of eye. 
Scales 167 in lateral line; 8 or 9 above, 14 or 15 below, 40 
predorsal forward to front of snout, of which 20 forward opposite hind 
orbit edge. Scales with 6 to 8 slightly converging rows of rather long 
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apical spinules, last extending little behind hind edge of soale; cir- 
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culi moderate, complete. 
D. II , 11 or II , 12_JL30, seoond simple ray pungent, with 
row of antrorse denticles along its front edge, length 1 l/3 to 1 2/5 
in head; interdorsal space 1 4/5 to 2 2/5; A. 118 to 133, fin height 
greater than second dorsal or 5? in head; pectoral rays I, 19 or I 
21, fin 1 l/2 in head, ventral rays I_, 10 to I_, 12, fin 1 4/5 to 2, 
first ray ending in filament. 
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Brown generally. Head usually darker than tail, especially 
below where often blackish brown or netral black. Iris dark gray. 
Inside mouth gray to blackish. Inside gill opening pale below, dark 
above and branch!ostegal region blackish brown. Chest, breast and 
belly neutral black to blackish. Fins mostly pale, paired ones darker. 
South Africa, tropical Indian Ocean, East Indies, Philippines. 
