Depth 525 head 3i; depth 1 7/8 its length. Snout 3 1/10 in head 
from snout tip; eye 4, 1 1/3 in snout, close together; maxillary reaches 
2 in eye, length 2 \ in head from snout tip; mouth cleft begins little below 
level of lower eye edge, lower jaw slightly longer; outer series of teeth 
slightly enlarged, with small canine at each side of lower jaw; preopercle 
without spine 
t angle 
Scales in lateral s eries about 95* Head naked. Scales apparently 
largest posteriorly, or on tail. 
D. VI - I, 12, third spine 1 3/7 in total head length, second 
branched ray 2 
, a » 
, 12, last ray 1^; caudal 1 1/8, acutely rounded be¬ 
hind; least depth of peduncle 2^; pectoral 1 1/10 ; ventral 1 7/8. 
Body pearly, with 4 broad brown cross bands, anterior and posterior 
ecges 
of which darker; first below 5 anterior dorsal spines; second 
corresponds to interdorsal space; third below end of soft dorsal; fourth 
across caudal. Rudimentary band in interspaces between each pair, first 
across neck. Straight silvery blue band from lower part of maxillary to 
upper opercle angle,- and faint blue line (disappearing after death) from 
lower front edge of eye to middle of premaxillary, ^irst dorsal brownish 
with some white marks 
and large black white-edged ocellus on summit. 
