Depth 4; head 3£, width equals length behind eyes. Snout slightly 
elevated; eye 4 in head, 1 1/3 in snout, 1 1/3 in interorbital; maxillary 
reaches in eye; mouth cleft oblique, begins opposite upper eye edge; 
teeth in numerous villiform rows, outer upper rather enlarged, also few 
anterior lower and literally inner row enlarged; front nostril tubular; 
upper surface of head and interorbital flattened; spine directed downward 
at preopercle angle. 
Scales 50 in lateral series; 12 transversely; 23 predorsal not ex¬ 
tending forwards to eye and none on sides of head. Scales on body ctenoid. 
r 
D. VI - I, 8, first spines with filamentous ends extending short space 
beyond membranes, fin height half body depth, second dorsal highest 
anteriorly or equals 2/3 body depth and similar to anal; A. I, 8; caudal 
wedge shaped; pectoral rays 15 , long as head without snout; ventral rays I , 
5 , long as pectoral. 
Dirty grayish, with vertical bands most distinct in posterior half of 
body. Many dark spots on head. Dorsals and anals with bands of black 
spots. Caudal nearly black and slightly reticulated. (Day.) 
Andaman Islands. Length not given. Day says it differs from Eleotris 
fusca in the fewer number of scales on the body, scaleless head, and lesser 
width of interorbital space. 
