1536 
. Saurlda tumbll (not BLOCH) WEBER and BEAUFORT, Fishes 
. T *■ *• 
Indo Austral. Archipelago, vol. 2, 1913, p. 142 (part). 
Depth 73/5 to 7 7/8; head 4 1/4 to 4 2/3, width 1 1/2 
to 1 4/5, Snout 3 1/3 to 4 2/5 in head; eye 6 to 6 1/2, 1 1/2 
to 1 2/3 in snout, 14/5 to 2 in interorbital; adipose lids 
expose 1/2 of eye, 3/5 of eye in smaller example; premaxillary 
extends 1 1/2 eye diameters behind eye, length 1 1/2 in head; 
teeth fine, villiform, in 4 or 5 series in jaws with innermost 
longer, all exposed; 2 rather broad bands of similar teeth on 
palatines; interorbital 2 7/8 to 3 1/4, broadly depressed, 
slightly concave. Gill rakers as minute splnules; gill fila¬ 
ments 1 1/6 in eye. 
Scales 59 to 60 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on 
latter; 5 above, 8 below, 23 or 24 predorsal, 4 postocular rows. 
Pectoral axillary scale 1 3/4 to 1 4/5 in fin, ventral axillary 
scale 2 1/4. Caudal scaly. Scales with 3 or 4 basal radiating 
striae, edge scalloped; circuli very fine, not extended apically. 
