brown, edge narrowly white, and hind half thickly dotted with 
white, Soft dorsal with basal half obliquely blotched deep 
dusky to brownish, black on paler ground-color, and outer half 
as broad submarginal duskyssepia band edged broadly with whitish 
and upper of edges forming fin edge. Caudal pale brown with about 
7 transverse darker streaks. Pectoral somewhat similar to caudal, 
only paler. Ventral pale brown, with 2 obsolete deeper brown 
ecross-bands, edge narrowly pale to whitish, Anal whitish. Length 
95 to°10S mm, Six from Fiji, 
Garmannia hemigymna(Eigenmann and Eigenmann). 
Head 3 to 3 1/6; depth 4 to 5; D. VII- 12 or 13; A. 10; 
scales 38 or 39 from near pectoral axil to caudal base, of which 
about 24 from opposite soft dorsal origin to caudal base, and 2 
more on latter; 5 or 6 scales transversely opposite soft dorsal 
origin; 10 scales across caudal peduncle transversely; snout 3 3/4 
to 4 2/3 in head; eye 3 1/3 to 3 7/8; maxillary 2 1/4 to 2 2/5; 
interorbital 2 1/4 to 21/3 in eye; head width 1 2/3 to 1 4/5 its 
length. Snout convex, length 2/3 to 3/4 its width, Maxillary 
little behind pupil, but not quite to hind eye edge. Lower jaw 
slightly shorter than upper. Teeth conic; large rather strong, 
uniserial above, biserial below, with inner row little larger 
and fewer. Tongue truncate. Interorbital very narrow, nearly 
level. Rakers 278, lanceolate, nearly long as filaments, which 
about 2/3 of eye. Scales mostly on posterior half of body, extend 
forward over costal region to pectoral axil and not along upper 
and lower body edges at front of soft dorsal and anal; radiating 
