Depth 8 to 9-3/4, moderately compressed; head 
2^-, head from snout tip 3-3/4 to 3-4/5, width 2-4/5 to 
3. Snout 3 in head from snout tip; eye 3-7/8, 1-1/6 in 
snout, subequal with interorbital; maxillary reaches 7/8 
to eye, length 3-1/5 to 3-1/3 in head from snout tip; 
interorbital 3-'3/4 to 3-7/8, low, flat. Gill rakers 
5^ 11, lanceolate, 1-1/5 in gill filaments, which 
2§ in eye. 
Scales 31 or 32 in lateral axial series from 
above gill opening to caudal base and 4 or 5 more on 
latter; 6 above, 1 below, 40 predorsal forward to snout 
end of which 25 forward to occiput above gill opening. 
Scales with 6 basal radiating striae; circuli moderate, 
more or less complete. 
D. II, 10, first branched ray 5-4/5 to 6| 
in total head length; A. II, 10, first branched ray 
V 
4-3/4? to 5; caudal 2^, convex behing; least depth 
of caudal peduncle 7-2/3 to 8-3/5; pectoral 3-1/8 to 
3-1/5; ventral 6-1/5 to 6i, origin about last third in 
space betv/een front pupil edge and caudal base. 
