cireuli very fine; lateral line slopes obliquely from shoulder 
to caudal base medianly; small simple tubes oblique. Third 
dorsal spine 2 2/5 to 2 9/10 in headl first dorsal ray 1¢ to 
21/8; second anal spine 2 2/5 to 3; first anal ray 1 4/5 to 
21/5; caudal convex behind, 1 3/5 to 1 2/3; pectoral 1 2/5 
to 1.7/8. 
Color in alcohol brownish generally. Head mottled with 
deep brown variable ocellated spots, smaller on muzzle, some 
‘ fused or linked along pectoral base and chert, even forming 
bars or short lines, Many spots on muzzle, in some specimens, 
fade pale or whitish. From above pectoral axille to base of 
lower caudal lobe broad pale band, also another along dorsal 
bases which it largely includ<«s, pale straw-brown to whitish, 
Area between extends as broad dusky or bleckish band, and 
out on caudal base medianly, in smaller examples this may be 
broken somewhat as about 15 obsolete dakker blotches within 
dark band. Spinous dorsal brownish, edge narrowly darker. 
Soft dorsal whitish, with sub-basal blackish blotch, gradually 
more extensive outward on last membranes. Anel brown. Upper 
caudal lobe white, Pectorel pale brown like breast and with 
few similar ocellete spots basally and in exil. Y‘entral brown, 
+ris golden, Length 113 to 153 mm, One from Fiji, and 6 in 
the Academy from Honolulu, 
