down toward pectoral origin; finelly uppermost along each 
side of head above, broken at blotch each side above and 
behind eye; bends a11 with more or less slightly darker mar- 
ginal lines, or sometimes absent. Hind edge of opercle flap 
oale, with narrow submarginal blackish crescent, which may 
extend variously above end below as submarginal dark line, 
Narrow brown lines extend back on trunk as pale brownish 
streaks, which fade out about opposite soft dorsal and anal. 
Sesles on trunk all more or less finely, though obscurely 
mottlea with darker. Spinous dorsal with moderately wide 
band of leaden bluish end submarginally narrow pale brownish 
streak, which gives place on soft dorsal to rather narrow close 
pale bluish-gray lines sloping down behind, forking or with 
narrow intervening similar lines on submarginal portion or Tig, 
Anals pale, with row of pale brownish spots basally, one behind 
each ray, median and submarginal line also at last rays to similar 
pattern on last dorsal rays. Caudal finely barred with similar 
transverse lines, which closer terminally on fin. ‘ectorals 
and ventrels, also pale brownish, 
Formaline specimens show brownish markings as pale yellowish- 
brown, also streaks back on fore part of trunk, all of paired 
fins and marginal portions of vertical fins. Slight variation 
in all our examples is noticed in the color-pattern, in which 
bands mav be broken in places, narrower, more extensive, etc, 
