Depth to 5|; head 3 7/8 to 4, width 2 1/3 to 2 1/3. Snout 4 
to 4j in head from snout tip; eye 3 ^ to 3 - 4 , greater than snout, equals 
interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite front of eye, length 2 2/5 to 
2 2/3 in head from snout tip; teeth above in rather narrow band, inner 
minute and villiform and outer row enlarged, well spaced and canine like; 
teeth below uniserial, anterior large curved canines with others graduated 
smaller posteriorly; interorbital 3 to 3 1/5 i n head from snout tip, low 
and depressed medially. Gill opening extends forward opposite hind pre- 
opercle edge. Gill rakers 9 -+-18, lanceolate, subequal with gill fila¬ 
ments or 2 in eye. 
Scales 115+10 in axial lateral s eries; 30 scales transversely 
above anal origin, scales forward little more than half way in predorsal, 
then head naked, except scaly cheek and opercle. Chest, breast, pre¬ 
pectoral region and caudal base scaled. Scales firmly adherent, non- 
imbricate and cycloid. 
D. VI - _I, 26, I, last spine well posterior to fifth and first 
1 1/10 to 1 1/8 in total head length, third ray \ to lj; A. I, 24, 1, 
third branched ray I 4 ; caudal 3 4/5 to 4 1/3 in rest of fish, little 
emarginate behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 1 7/8 to 2 ; pectoral 
1-t to 1 1/3, rays 20; ventral r^ays I, 5, fin I4 to l£ in total head 
length. Anal papilla small, rounded, convex, long as pupil. 
Brown, and light brown on lower surface of head and belly. Ins 
pale gray. Vertical fins all dark brown, caudal pale to whitish medially 
and within emargination. Paired fins light brown. 
Philippines, Rui Kiu, Japan. Closely related to Ptereleopris 
microlepis (Bleeker), but without the dark, contrasted or conspicuous 
transverse bar on the base of the pectoral. Tomiyama also adds that 
species "has a different markings on vertical fins and 2 or 3 more rays 
of both dorsal and anal fins”. 
