Depth 4; head 3? width 2. Snout 4 7/8 in head from snout tip; 
eye 4, greater than snout, greatly exceeds interorbital; maxillary ex¬ 
tends § in eye, length 2 1/10 in head from snout tip; lips thick and 
fleshy; teeth strong, canines bent back, lower pair lateral as one on 
each mandibular ramus medially; interorbital narrow, low, width \ of eye. 
Gill rakers 5 4 11, lanceolate, 4 gill filaments or 3 in eye. 
Scales 64-|-5 in axial lateral series; 19 above anal origin trans¬ 
versely, 19 predorsal forward opposite hind preopercle edge. Head naked. 
Scales with 9 to 11 basal radiating striae; 11 apical denticles, rather 
1arge, uniserial; circuli fine. 
D. VI - I, 11, i, fourth spine 1 3/7 in total head length, first 
branched ray 2; A. I, 12, t, first branched ray 2 2/3; caudal 3 in rest 
of fish, ends in median point behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 7/8 
in total head length; pectoral 1 1/6, rays 20; ventral rays I, 5? fin 1 
in total head length. 
Brown, little paler below. Chest, branch!ostegal region and isthmus 
dark chocolate, also a broad chocolate band transversely across middle of 
postventral region, up each side level with pectoral fin. Iris silvery 
gray. Head and body with many variable, mostly large rounded blue gray 
spots, more or less ringed with darker brown. Fins all pale gray brown, 
anal dark brown terminally, and both soft dorsal and anal with 4 basal 
blue gray large spots. Pectoral pale yellowish brown. Ventral gray brown 
outside, gray black inside or toward belly. 
Diagnosis included in that of the genus. Only the type known. 
U.S.N.M., No. 99045. Port Banalacan. February 23, 1909* / 1169*. 
