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Depth 6-^ to 6 7/8; head 4 l/s to 4 l/s, width 1 s/s to 1 3/4. 
Snout 3 l/s to 4 in head from snout tip; eye 3 l/s to S-r, greater than snout, 
in interorbital; maxillary reaches 3/4 or to eye, length 3 4/5 to 4 l/s 
in head from snout tip; teeth very minute, simple, conic, in narrow bands in 
jaws; befid barbel at sj.’mphysis of mandible long as eye; interorbital 2 l/s 
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to 2 2/5 in head from snout tip, broad, shallowly concave. Gill rakers G-f- 17, 
lanceolate, 1-^ in gill filaments, which 1 2/3 eye. 
Scales 39 to 42 in median lateral series to caudal base and 4 
more on latter, mostly fallen and counted largely from pockets; 27 or 28 
predorsal to occiput. Scales with 2 or 3 basal radiating striae, edge 
scalloped; circuli 16 to 22, complete, 
D, ^ 8 to 10, seventh ray 1 2/5‘to 2 in total head length; 
A, I, 6 or 7, first branched ray 2 to 2 l/S; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 3 l/s to 3 3/5; P. 13, fin reaches 1/8 in ventral or 2 l/lO to 
2 1/3 in total length to caudal base; ventral inserted little nearer caudal 
than gill opening, reaches slightly beyond caudal; lower caudal lobe 41/8 
to 4^ in rest of fish, upper lobe about half of lower. 
Back brown, belly and under surfaces dusky to smutty, often with 
grayish cast. Head often dusky coppery below. Iris gray or coppery silvery. 
Dorsal pale, dusky to blackish posteriorly, also anal. Anal white, witfe 
medial basal blackish blotch. Pectoral whitish, with black basal blotch 
and larger one terminally. Ventral b-lack. Barbel blackish. 
