Depth 4 to 4 1/85 head 4 to 4 1/5, width 1 4/5. Snout 5 in 
head; eye 5, greater* than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches \ in 
eye, length 2 1/3 to 2 2/5 in head; teeth simple, conic, firm, uniserial 
in jaws; interorbital narrow, barely £ of eye, depressed within eyes which 
slightly impinging on upper profile. Gill opening lateral, 2 in head. 
Scales 26 HI-2 in axial lateral series; 7 transversely above anal 
origin. Predorsal, head, prepectoral, breast, chest and belly naked. 
Scales with 8 to 11 basal radiating striae; 20 to 26 apical denticles, 
uniserial, short, simple points; circuli moderate. 
S “ h I’ third spine lj to 1 4/7 in head, third branched 
ray 1 2/3 to if; A. I, 8, i, third branched ray 1 7/8 to 2; caudal 1 to 
1 1/8, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 to 2 1/8; pectoral 
1 to 1 1/8, rays 16 or 17; ventral rays I, 5, fin 1 to 1 1/8 in head. 
Anal papilla short fleshy point A of eye. 
Light brown, with 5 close set darker brown t ransverse bands on 
pi edorsal which extend down to middle of side of head; on body 6 transverse 
darker bands, narrower than pale interspaces and last as dark blotch at 
caudal basally; 2 reach over anal base and between 2 on caudal peduncle 
below another smaller on lower surface of caudal peduncle. Several ob¬ 
scure dark spots on cheek and side of head. On line of back traces of 
intermediate dark cross bars like those on predorsal. Iris gray. Dorsal 
dar*c brown, 1irst clouded with blackish brown and second with 6 or 7 dark 
bands inclined down posteriorly. Anal similar, only bars inclined up and 
posteriorly. Other fins pale to whitish. 
East Indies, Philippines, Hawaii. 
