Depth 4; head 2 5/6, width 1 2/5. Snout 3-4 in head from snout 
tip; eye 11 3/5, 1 4/5 in snout; maxillary reaches about 2/3 in eye, 
length 2 \ in head from snout tip; upper jaw with inner band of minute 
villiform teeth, and outer larger row, none on palate or tongue; inter¬ 
orbital 3 2/5. Gill rakers 10 knob like tubercles. 
Scales 88 + 6 in axial lateral series; 32 transversely above anal 
origin. Scales before spinous dorsal, and on head above and breast, 
besides on caudal base especially reduced and crowded. 
D. vl - i, 9, *, second spine 3 2/5 in head from snout tip, third 
branched ray 2 2/3; A. 1, 8, 1, first branched ray 4 1/5, sixth ray 2j; 
caudal 1 3/5, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 3/7; 
pectoral 2, rays 17; ventral rays 1, 5, fin 2 1/6 in head from snout tiD. 
Anal papilla little longer than eye. 
Deep blackish brown, with slate colored suffusion. Belly, lower 
surface of head and breast dirty brownish, scarcely paler. Head below 
with paler bloLches, sometimes confluent. Fins dusky brown, variegated 
with blackish brown spots, forming somewhat barred appearance. 
Borneo. 
