Depth 8£; head 51, width 2 1 / 3 . Snout convex, shorter than 
eye; eye 3 in head, equals interorbital; maxillary extends below front 
of eye; mouth begins level with upper front part of eye, oblique; upper 
jaw protractile, lower jaw protruded; upper teeth a cute, conic, curved, 
pluriserial, in outer series shorter to much longer and 3 or 4 distant 
canine-like each side; lower teeth triserial to pluriserial, and uniserial 
posteriorly partly canine like. 
Scales over 100 in lateralseries. Head and median muchal line 
naked. Scales cycloid, minute, on trunk and anteriorly smaller than on 
tail * 
D. VI - I, 30 or 31? fins subcontinuous? and subequal, lower than 
body depth; A.I, 29 or 30, and anterior rays longer, like those of second 
dorsal; caudal shorter than head, einarginate, lobes rounded; pectoral rays 
23 or 24, obtuse; ventral rays JT, 5, and like pectoral shorter than head 
without snout. Anal papilla inconspicuous. 
Body above greenish rosy, below pearly. Iris rose. Pins pale 
golden. 
Median longitudinal part of caudal all black. 
Length 49 mm, (Bleeker,) 
Borneo. 
