Depth 6| to 7 l/3> head 4 to 4 3 / 5 , width 2 to 2 1/5* Snout 
obtusely convex; subequal to little longer than eye; eye 4 1/3 to 4 2/3 
in head, greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches below front part of 
eye; jaws equal, upper begins opposite or below level of lower eye edge, 
teeth pointed, conic, curved, uniserial with 3 to 6 each side canines or 
canine like in upper jaw; lower teeth biserial in front, uniserial posteriorly, 
each side externally 5 or 6 canines; interorbital 2/5 to 2/3 of eye. 
Pharyngeal teeth multiserial, curved, hooked* 
Scales 85 to 90 in lateral series; 22 or '23 transversely between 
second dorsal and anal. Head and median nuchal region naked, latter with 
small scales on sides. Scales on body ctenoid, larger on sides and tail. 
D* VI - I, 12 or 13, fins partly joined, second to fourth spines 
sometimes extend beyond membranes and lower than body depth, second dorsal 
and anal lower than body; A. I, 11 to 13; caudal obtusely convex, shorter 
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to little longer than head; pectoral obtusely rounded, shorter to little 
longer than head without snout, rays 19 or 20; ventral rays I, 5, little 
shorter than head without snout. 
Body above rose green, below rose pearly. Iris yellowish rose. 
Jaws, cheek, opercle to pectoral base with 6 to 9 violaceous blue spots 
forming 2 or 3 longitudinal rows. Middle of predorsal with deep violaceous 
oblong spot. Sides below with longitudinal rosy band, ^ins yellowish golden 
or rose, membrane pale hyaline. Spinous dorsal spotted sparsely with violet, 
apex with violet black spot. Second dorsal with 4 to 6 longitudinal violet 
or rose bands. Anal with submarginal violet band, and basaily and terminally 
posteriorly 8 to 10 golden violet rings more or less united like band. 
Caudal above and below with rosy ocelli or golden violet rings, lower median 
in young form oblong violaceous blotch. 
Length 64 to 115 mm. 
East Indies. 
(Bleeker.) 
