200 
Depth 7 2/3 to 10, rather robust to subcylindrical 
or only slightly • compressed; head 2 4/5 to 2 7/8, from 
snout tip 4 to 4 2/5, width 2^ to 3, from mandible tip 
4 1/8 to 5 3/5. Snout 2 3/5 to 3 in head from snout tip; 
eye 3§ to 4 1/5, 1^ to 1 3/5 in snout, 1 to 1 l/lO in 
interorbital, 1 2/5 to 1-^ in postocular; maxillary reaches 
3/4 to eye, length 3 to 3 3/5 in head from snout tip; 
f 
mandible before snout tip 6 to 8 1/5 in total; interorbital 
2 7/8 to 3 3/4, low, nearly level. Gill rakers 6 or 7 
17 or 18, short, § of gill filaments, which 21/5 in eye. 
Scales 44 to 52 in axial lateral row to caudal 
base and 4 or 5 more on latter; 6 above, 47 to 50 predorsal 
of which 30 to 32 forward opposite gill opening. Dorsal, 
anal and caudal finely scaly. Scales with 4 or 5 short 
basal radiating marginal striae; circuli 30 to 50 basally, 
not extended apical^y. 
D. II, 12, I, or II, 13, I, first branched ray 
14/5 to 2 1/8 in head from snout tip; A. Ill, 12, I or 
III, 13, I, first bfanched ray 2 to 2 3/5; least depth 
of caudal peduncle 3 3/5 to 4 1/8; caudal 1 1/5; pectoral 
1 2/5 to 1 2/3; ventral 2 l/5 to 2;^, insertion of fin 
midway between front nostril and caudal base. 
