Depth 5 1/3 to 65 head 3 1/5 to 3j, width 1 1/5 to 1 2 / 5 . Snout 
4 1/8 to 4 2/5 in head from snout tip; eye 4 4/5 to 5? 1 to 1 1/8 in 
snout, little greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches 1/3 to \ in 
eye, length 2 \ to 2*jr in head; teeth large, simple, conic, well spaced, 
uniserial in jaws, and small band on each palatine; interorbital 6 to 7 , 
level. Gill rakers on second arch 5, 1/3 of gill filaments, v/hich 3 in 
eye. 
Scales 40 + 4 in axial lateral series; about 18 transversely. 
Caudal base scaly, otherwise fins naked. Scales with 16 radiating striae 
basally; circuli rather coarse, more or less continuous. 
D. VI, 12, 1 or 13 , I, third spine 2\ to 2 1/3 in head, fin 
height 1 7/8 to 2; A. I, 9, 1 or 10, 1, fin height 1 4/5 to 2 1/8; caudal 
1 to 1 1 / 5 , rudimentary rays well developed; least depth of caudal peduncle 
2 3/5 to 2 2 / 3 ; pectoral l\ to 1 1 / 3 , rays 20 ; ventral 1 1/3 to 1 2 / 5 . 
Brown, above and on sides sprinkled with innumerable darker dots, 
some rather pale extending on breast and belly. Broad blackish brown 
band, bordered broadly by pale in front and behind, not crossing belly, 
also reflected up on spinous dorsal. Dark line forward and down from 
front eye edge toward middle of maxillary. Broad blackish brown band, less 
than eye in width, obliquely down toward preopercle angle. Blackish 
brown spot about size of pupil before pectoral origin. Fins all more or 
less gray brown, soft verticals broadly edged paler to whitish. Ventrals 
whitish. Iris neutral gray. 
Natal, Zululand. 
