Depth 5 to 6 in length; head 3 2/5 to 3^, width 1-| to 2. Snout 
depressed, wide; eye 5 to 6 in head, 1 to lj in interorbital; maxillary 
reaches £ in eye; teeth in villiform bands, pluriserial; ridges on inter¬ 
orbital snout and temporal regions smooth or crenlate. 
Scales 30 in lateral series; 9 or 10 transversely between second 
dorsal and anal: 25 oredorsal forward to eyes. Head above, cheek, pre- 
a 
opercle and opercle densely scaled, also between anterior nostrils. Scales 
on head ctenoid, in areas of preopercle, interopercle and cheek very small. 
Small scales on nape, chest, breast, belly and sides of tail ctenoid ciliate. 
Dorsal VI - I, 8 or 9, second and third spines longest or less 
than half body depth; Anal I, 8 or 9, like second dorsal; cauda; shorter 
than head, obtusely convex below, rounded or angulate above; pectoral 
rays l8 to 20, little shorter than head without snout; ventral similar, 
rays I, 5. 
Blackish to brown or brownish green above, below paler to 
golden. Iris violet or green, edge of pupil golden. Head and body dotted 
or spotted with blackish sparsely, on cheek and postocular region 
frequently radiating from eye. First dorsal black or brown, other fins 
with brownish or hyaline violaceous membranes, rays golden or red. Pectoral 
with basal irregular black spot, bordered red, otherwise brown variegated 
with many brown lines. Soft dorsal, ventral and anal bordered with red. 
Length 64 to 142 mm. 
East Indies, S*-am» 
(Bleeker.) 
CKJ * 
