Depth 3-|; head width 2. Snout shorter than eye, acute; eye 3^ 
in head, 1 in interorbital; orbit smooth; maxillary not quite reaching eye; 
lower jaw longer, mouth cleft short; upper teeth pluriserial, small, equal, 
none canines; postocular groove inconspicuous; no preopercular spine. 
Scales 25 in lateral series; 13 predorsal. Head entirely scaled. 
D. VI - I, 9 or 10, first dorsal rounded with flexible spines of 
which third longest or more than twice lower than body depth, second dorsal 
obtusely angulate behind and higher than first dorsal, though lower than 
body; A. I, 11, acute, lower than body; caudal obtusely convex, 4 2/3 in 
body; pectoral 5, obtuse, rays 13; ventral rays J_, 5, fin 6 in body. Anal 
papilla large, quadrate, bilobed. 
Body anteriorly red, posteriorly green, scale edges darker. First 
dorsal with yellow basal band, median black band and above broadly black. 
Second dorsal violaceous, with yellow spots. Pectoral violaceous, with 
basal double black and yellow blotch. Other fins red, ventral and anal 
edged black below. 
Length 59 mm* (Bleeker.) 
Sumatra, Said to be related to Ble otris cypri.noldes , 
