Depth 7^ to 7 4/5 in body measured from snout 
tip to caudal base, body subcylindrical; head from snout 
tip 4 3/4, width 2 2/3 to 2 4/5. Snout 2 ^ to 2 3/5 in 
head from snout tip, free upper portion little wider 
than long, width in snout to eye I- 4 - to 1 2 / 5 ; eye 4 1/5 
to 4 2/5 in head from snout tip, 1 3/4 in snout, li in 
interorbital; maxillary reaches 4/5 to eye, nearly 
vertical, length 2 9/^0 to 3 in head from snout tip; 
interorbital 3^, level. Gill rakers 7 ^ 18, lanceolate. 
Scales 46 to 50 in axial lateral series to 
caudal base and 5 more on latter; 7 above lateral line, 
2 below, 33 or 34 predorsal to occiput. Few basal scales 
at front of dorsal and anal. Scales with 3 or 4 basal 
radiating striae; circuli fine. 
D. II, 11, first branched ray 2 to 24 in head 
from snout tip; A. II, 11, first branched ray 1 4/5 to 
2 ; caudal 1 1 / 8 , deeply emarginate; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 3 4/5 to 4; pectoral 1 3/5 to 1 2/3; ventral 2 3/5 
to 2 4 / 5 , inserted slightly nearer head than caudal base. 
Pale brown, scales on back narrowly edged dusky. 
Predorsal with 3 close set parallel neutral gray lines. 
Narrow neutral gray streak from above pectoral axil to 
caudal base medially, little expanded behind. Beak and 
snout dusky terminally. Iris white. Fins grayish, front 
dorsal and anal lobes dusky, ventral pale. 
