Depth 4 1/3? body moderately compressed; head 3? broad as deep. 
Eye 4g- in head, slightly less than snout, slightly greater than inter¬ 
orbital; maxillary reaches 1/3 in eye; no canine teeth; no preopercular 
spine. First gill cleft reduced in size. Lower gill rakers 13 ? 
moderately developed. Psendobranchiae well developed. 
Scales 28 in lateral series; 9 transversely. Head scaly, except 
on interorbital, snout, suborbital and mandible. Row of small spiniform 
cutaneous projections on supraorbital, continued on to snout. Rows of 
papillae as 6 vertical rows below eye, with horizontal row below, around 
lower edge of preopercle, and in groove below mandible. 
Dorsal VI - I, 8 ; Anal I, 9? Pectoral 21, longer than ventrals. 
Brownish, with irregular darker mottling. Dorsals and anal dark, 
latter with light edge. 
Length 58 mm. (Barnard.) 
Portuguese East Africa. According to Barnard "This species is 
easily distinguished by the large scales and the rows of papillae on the 
head". 
