Depth 3 2/3 to 3 4/5; head 2 4/5 to 3, width l4~ to 1 2/5• Snout 
4J- to 4-| in head from snout tip; eye 3 to 3 1/5, greatly exceeds snout 
or interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite front eye edge, length 3 in 
head from snout tip; teeth above biserial, pointed, outer larger, similar 
below; tongue truncate in front; interorbital width 2 in eye, narrow, 
deeply furrowed. Gill opening extends forward until nearly below hind 
eye edge. 
Scales 25 in lateral series; 12 transversely; 12 predorsal forward 
to eyes. Cheeks and opercles scaly. Postocular line of papillae back to 
suprascapula; horizontal row close along lower eye edge and another on 
lower part of cheek; line close along above maxillary; line along, edge 
of preopercle and forward on each lower face of mandible; vertical line 
on front part of opercle and another short horizontal line below. 
D. VI - I, 10, third spine 1 2/3 in total head length, first 
branched ray 2 1/5; A. I, 9, first branched ray 2 1/3; least depth of 
caudal peduncle 2 2/5; caudal 1 1/3, convex behind; pectoral 1, rays 21; 
ventral rays I, 5, fin 1 1/6 in total head length. 
In alcohol brown, with 10 transverse darker bands, subequal in 
width with pale interspaces. Vertical fins dark gray. Paired fin gray. 
Hawaiian Islands, Fiji. 
