Depth 4*jr; head 3^, width 1 7/8. Snout 5 1/5 in head; eye 3 1/8, 
greatly exceeds snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches jjr in eye, length 
2 4/5 in head; teeth simple, conic, uniserial in jaws; interorbital low, 
depressed between eyes which impinge on upper profile, bony width about 
2/5 of eye. Gill opening 2 in head. 
Scales 22 4 - 2 in axial lateral series; 7 transversely above anal 
origin. Predorsal, head, chest, breast, prepectoral and belly naked. 
Caudal base scaly. Scales with 8 to 10 basal radiating striae; row of 20 
or 21 low apical denticles; circuli coarse. 
D. VI - I, 8, 1, second spine 1 3/5 in head, first branched ray 2; 
"" 1 1 u ■' — «*** 
A. I, 9, i, fin height 1 2/3; caudal (damaged) 1; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 2\x pectoral 1, rays 155 ventral I, 5, fin subequal with head. 
Anal papilla short, slender, flap, tip notched. 
Brown. Iris gray. Black blotch on base of caudal, reflected 
out on bases of lower median rays. Fins all brownish. 
Polynesia. The details of color given by Jordan and Seale as: 
the wide grayish band from posterior of eye along lower part of side to 
caudal; a narrow brown line from posterior of eye along middle of body 
to caudal; dark line from eye down side of snout; upper half of spinous 
dorsal whitish, lower half dusky; soft vertical fins more or less shaded 
dusky; paired fins white; cannot now be seen clearly in the type. 
