Depth 5; head 4, width 2. Snout to eye 3 l/8 in head; eye 
5 l/2, 1 1/2 in snout, 1 in interorbital; orbit 3 1/2 in head, 
i 
1 in snout; preoral length 4 2/3 in head; maxillary reaches l/4 
* 
in. orbit, length from front end 3 4/5 in head; mandibular barbel 
2 1/2 in eye; teeth minutely villifom, in rather narrow bands 
of jaws in 4 or 5 irregular series transversely; interorbital 4 
l/2 in head, low, slightly concave. Gill rakers 2+9 low spin- 
iferous tubercles on second arch, 1/4 of gill filaments, which 1 
l/2 in orbit* 
Scales 84 in lateral line to pseudocaudal; 7 above, 14 below, 
36 predorsal well forward on snout of which 18 forward till opposit 
hind eye edge. Scales with 7 to 10 parallel apical spinuliferous 
keels, spinules minute and last slightly project beyond scale edge; 
circuli moderate, complete. 
ray pungent, with row of antrorse 
s 
D. II, 10—82, second 
errae along front edge, length 1 l/2 in head; interdorsal space 
2 3./5; A. 84, fin height 4 l/2?; pectoral I, 18, fin 1 9/lQ in 
head; ventral I, 8, fin 1 3/5. 
Largely uniform umber or dull brown. Iris grayish. Inside 
mouth pale. Mandible below and branchiostegal region dark neutral 
gray to blackish. Chest, breast and bel?.y neutral gray. Inside 
gill opening blackish brown, paler below. 
Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Eastern Indian Ocean. 
U. S. N. M., No. 44420. Bengal Pay. Investigator Collection. 
Length 170 mm. 
