Body moderately long, cylindrical forward, and caudal peduncle 
7 
f 
rather long. Head large, obtuse, depressed. Snout moderate. Eye 
elevated, at first third in head. Mouth little inclined, lower jaw 
protruding. Maxillary extends below eye. Teeth without canines, 
pluriserial in jaws, and outer series little enlarged. Isthmus broad. 
Branchiostegals 6, with 1 or 2 upper ending anteriorly in sharp spine 
directed upward and forward. Scales 60 to JO in lateral s eries. Head 
scaleless. Dorsals moderate, well separated, first fin with 6 spines, 
second fin with spine and 7 or 8 rays. Anal with spine and 7 or 8 rays. 
Caudal and pectoral moderate, ventral small. 
One species in the East Indian region. The genus is especially 
interesting in the development of the s trong spine at the forward end of 
the first and second upper branchiostegals. 
