Depth 5; head 2 4/5, width 1 1/3. Snout 7 in head, from snout 
tip, elevated; eye 4*|, greater than snout, subequal with interorbital; 
maxillary reaches below middle of orbit, length 2 4/5 in head from snout 
tip; mouth cleft very oblique, begins opposite upper eye edge, and lower 
jaw protruded in front; teeth in numerous villiform rows, very small, 
equal; interorbital flat; no serrated ridges on head; upper surface of 
head flat; no preopercular spine. Branchiostegals 6. 
Scales 58 in lateral series; 17 transversely; 42 predorsal; 6 rows 
across interorbital. Scales strongly ctenoid behind head and base of 
dirst dorsal, on upper surface of head nearly as large as on body, extend 
forward to snout and cover cheeks and opercles. 
Dorsal VI - I, 8, second spine in total head length, first ray 
3; Anal I, 7, third ray 2 4/5; caudal 1 4/5; convex behind; least depth 
of caudal peduncle 2 4/5; pectoral 1^, rays l6; ventral rays I, 5? fin 2 
in total head length. Anal papilla short point (on figure). 
Dark brown, mottled with black. First dorsal black, with white 
band along lower third (figure shows fin pale with 4 oblique parallel black 
bands of which uppermost marginal)* 
Second dorsal with 6 or 7 bands of spots. Anal with bands of 
spots. Caudal reticulated with black spots and with black basal band 
(figure shows 5 transverse arched parallel blackish bands). Pectoral 
yellow, with several black bands of spots (about 8 transverse dark bands 
on figure). Ventral spotted. 
Length 137 mm. (Day.5 
India. Apparently close to Eleotris fusca. 
