Depth 4§; head 3‘t• Snout 4 in head from snout tip; eye 4, sub¬ 
equal with snout; maxillary reaches 4/5 to eye, length 3 7/8 in head from 
snout tip; interorbital low. 
Scales 28 to 30? in lateral series; 10 transversely. Scales small 
on head and trunk, larger on tail. 
D. VI - I_, 10, third spine 2 1/6 in total head length, first 
branched ray 2; A. I_, 10, third branched ray 2; caudal 1 1/10, little con¬ 
vex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 ; pectoral 1 ^: ventral 1 1 / 3 . 
Body yellowish, without dark lateral band. Blackish blotch 
above pectoral origin. Fins hyaline. 
Length 50 nim. (Klunzinger.) 
Ogilby separated it from Hypseleotris cyprinoides "since it 
differs not only in having a larger number of dorsal rays, but in the 
possession of no less than ten transverse series of scales between the 
origin of the second dorsal and the anal fins." 
