Depth 6 to 7 ; head 4, width 1 3/5 to I-4. Snout acute; eye 5 to 6 
in head, 1 to 1 1/3 in interorbital; upper jaw shorter, end before eye 
slightly superior; upper teeth pluriserial, acute, small, outer row little 
enlarged, likewise lower anterior row and inner posterior row; pre- 
opercular spine acute, curved. 
Scales 50 in lateral series; 11 or 12 transversely, 40 predorsal. 
Subocular region scaleless. Cheeks, preopercle and opercle with small 
scales, 15 in longitudinal series on opercle, strongly deciduous on cheek 
and preopercle. Scales on head, nape, chest, breast and belly cycloid, 
posteriorly ctenoid. Interocular, occipital and nuchal scales con¬ 
spicuously small, on sides of tail enlarged, on middle of sides less so. 
D. VI - I_, 8 or 9) second to fourth spines longest, rays higher 
though lower than body depth, soft fin obtuse; A. I, 8 or 9? like second 
dorsal; caudal longer than head without snout, obtusely rounded; pectoral 
rays l6 or 17, obtusely rounded, longer than head without snout; ventral 
rays I, 5? shorter than pectoral. 
Above brownish, brownish green or rose green, below paler or rose 
golden. Iris green, pupil edged golden. Fin membranes clear violaceous 
or brown, rays golden. First dorsal with 2 or 3 longitudinal brown bands. 
Second dorsal, caudal and pectoral variegated with brown, with dark longi¬ 
tudinal lines on soft dorsal and transverse dark lines on caudal and pectoral 
Pectoral base above frequently with brown or red spot. 
Length 62 to 114 mm. (Bleeker.) 
East Indies, Malaya. Bleeker separated it from Culius oxycephalus . 
Culius melanosoma and Culius macrocephalus in the presence of 11 orl2 
scales transversely between thesecond dorsal and anal fins (14 or 15 in 
the species named). 
