violaceous, rays golden. Spinous dorsal with 2 longitudinal brown bands 
Soft dorsal and caudal variegated with small brown spots, on dorsal form 
longitudinal bands and on caudal transverse bands. 
Pectoral with brown or reddish basal spot. 
Length 70 to 8l mm. (Bleeker.) 
East Indies. Bleeker says it is easily known by the large scales 
on the trunk. From Culius insulindicus Bleeker it differs in a deeper 
body and fewer scales in a lateral series. 
