Depth 5^5 head 3 to 3 1/5* Snout 4 in head from snout tip; eye 
5^, 1 1/5 in snout, equals interorbital; maxillary reaches 1/3 in eye, 
length 3 in head from snout tip; snout end level with lower edge of eye, 
mandible little protruded in front; teeth in bands in jaws, enlarged in 
outer upper and outer lower anteriorly and inner posterior row; front 
nostril tubular, at lip edge, hind one close before eye, rounded; inter- 
orbital low. 
Scales 56 in lateral series; 18 transversely; 20 to 25 predorsal 
forward to eyes. Scales ctenoid. Scales cycloid on head, some small ones 
extending forward to hind nostril. 
D. VI - 12, third spine 2 4/5 in total head length, first branched 
ray 2^, eleventh 2 1/5; A. 9? eighth ray 2 2/3; caudal 1 3/5? convex 
behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 2/3; pectoral 1 1/3, rays 14; 
ventral 1-| in total head. 
In alcohol dark or clear brown, with about 10 arched darker cross 
bands on trunk and front part of tail. Below and behind eye 2 or 3 dark 
bars. Dorsals and caudal with several rows of dark spots, latter with 
paler hind edge and rounded blackish spot at bases of upper rays. 
Length l8 to 93 mm.. (Weber.) 
East Indies. 
