Depth 4; head 3? width if. Snout 5 in head; eye 3 1/5? greater 
than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches 2/5 in eye, length 2f in 
head; teeth small, conic, pointed, firm, uniserial in jaw; interorbital 
narrow, level, depressed between eyes, which impinge little on upper pro¬ 
file of head, bony width 2/5 of eye. Gill opening extends forward 
opposite hind preopercle edge, slit 1 4/5 in head. 
Scales 21 + 1 or 2 in axial lateral series; 6 transversely above 
anal origin. Predorsal, head, prepectoral region, chest, breast and belly 
naked. Scales with 13 basal radiating striae; row of 25 or 26 short 
conic apical denticles; circuli moderate, obsolete to absent apicaily. 
D. VI - I, 8, T, first 4 spines (damaged) extended to reach 4/5 to 
caudal base, last dorsal ray if in head; A. I, 7? 1? last ray 1 1/3 or 
reaches caudal base; caudal 1, apparently rounded behind (damaged); least 
depth of caudal peduncle 2; pectoral 1 1/8 times head, rays 16; ventral 
I, 5? fin subequal with head. Anal papilla f of eye, slender, tip notched 
Dull brownish, edges of scales with darker dots. Blackish blotch, 
little smaller than eye at bases of median lower caudal rays. Dark 
horizontal postocular bar, continued forward as band over front of snout 
to each eye. Three indistinct dark blotches on tail above anal base and 
3 more on under surface of caudal peduncle. Iris gray. Fins all brownish 
though 3 or 4 small dark brown spots on each membrane of dorsal and 5 or 
6 on each caudal membrane. 
Polynesia. Resembles Eviota distigm a Jordan and Seale in the 
. . . urn m mm m m m nmmtmmmB* * m m m h m fr t m mu. m nmm 
elongated front rays of the spinous dorsal, but with different coloration. 
The black s tripe around the lower lip and the dusky blotch in the upper 
axil of the pectoral, described by Jordan and Seale are now scarcely 
evident in the type. 
