wide dark or blackish brown lateral band, formed with variable small and 
still darker or blackish rounded spots, extends from pectoral axil to bases 
of upper and superomedian caudal rays. Blackish brown narrow band or line 
on side of snout and over postocular to suprascapula; another, little 
inclined from lower hind eye edge to upper horizontal line of papillae. 
Iris gray brown. Spinous dorsal brown to transparent, with margin and 
median band whitish, or with 4 horizontal brown bands. Soft dorsal whitish 
or transparent with 4 or 5 dark brown horizontal bands, edge of each little 
darker or as dark line. Anal similar. Caudal with 7 brown cross bands, 
each edged with darker line. Pectoral pale, with about dozen irregular 
transverse bands. Ventral with transverse brown bands. 
East Indies, China, Formosa, Riu Kiu, Japan. 
