Depth 3^ to 3 2/3; head 2| to 2 7/8, width 1 2/5 to 1-|. Snout 
4 to 5 in head; eye 3 to 3 1/5, greater than snout or interorbital; 
maxillary reaches 2/5 to \ in eye, length 2 1/3 to 2f in head; teeth 
very small or minute, uniserial or in very narrow bands; interorbital 
narrow, depressed between eyes, which impinge on upper profile, width 
1/3 of eye. Gill opening 2 in head. 
Scales 22 or 23 -f- 2 in axial lateral series; 8 or 9 transversely 
above anal origin. Predorsal, head, chest, breast, prepectoral and belly 
naked. Caudal base scaly. Scales with 12 or 13 basal radiating striae; 
17 or 18 apical denticles, simple points; circuli moderate. 
D. VI - I, 8, 1, first spine If to 1-1 in head, first branched 
ray 1 4/5 to 2; A~ I, 7, 1, last ray 1 7/8 to 2; caudal 1 to 1 1/10, con¬ 
vex behind; least depth of caudax peduncle 2 1/5 to <^1; pectoral x, rays yfy f, 
7; ventral rays I, 5, fin subequal with head. Anal papilla 2 0i -j®* 
Pale brown, nearly uniform. Pale or whitish line along side 
of back whole length of trunk and tail; second axial along side of body; 
third along lower side of body. Iris gray. Fins largely uniform brown¬ 
ish. 
Polynesia. This species may be said to be characterized largely 
by the 3 whitish longitudinal lines on the side of the body, but not in¬ 
dicated in the original figure by Jordan and Seale, though described in 
their text. 
