Depth 8 2/5 to 9, 3 to 3 l/3 to vent; head 4 4/5 to 
5 4/5 to caudal base, 2 to vent, width 3 to 3 2/3. Snout to 
eye 4 to 61/3 in head; orbit 4 2/3 to 5 1/2; eye 6 2/5 to 6 
1/2, 1 2/3 to 1 7/8 in snout, slightly greater than interor¬ 
bital in young to 1 3/5 in interorbital with age; maxillary 
reaches 1/2 in eye or to hind eye edge with age, with small 
concealed spine, length 2 1/3 to 2 2/5 in head; teeth minute, 
slender, uniserlal, uniform, in jaws and on palatines; inter¬ 
orbital 4 2/5 to 5, broadly and slightly convex* Gill rakers 
4 -f- 11, short points, equal gill filaments or 1/2 of eye. 
Scales very small, adherent. Lateral line axial, extends 
2/3 in tail. 
D. XII to XV, first spine inserted little behind ventral 
base, last spine 5 1/5 to 6 in head; A. XIX to XXVIII, 56? 
to 98?, caudal 2 l/2 to 4 in head; pectoral 1 4/5 to 1 7/8, 
fin reaching 4/5 to 7/8 to ventral; ventral 2 1/5 to 3, fins 
confluent. 
Brown. Iris neutral gray. Inside mouth and gill open¬ 
ing black. Edge of gill opening narrowly blackish. Jaws 
dark brown. Fins brownish. 
