1344 
Depth 11 1/8 to 19 1/5, 4 2/3 to vent; head 7 1/6 
to 7 1/4 In total, 21/3 to 3 to anal, width 2 4/5 to 3 3/4. 
Snout to eye 2 1/8 to 2 2/5 in head; orbit 7 4/5; eye 9 to 
11 3/4, 31/4 to 5 1/5 in snout, 1 1/4 to 2 4/5 in interorbit¬ 
al; maxillary reaches 9/10 to or 1/4 in orbit, or to front 
edge, length from snout tip 2 1/4 to 2 1/3 in head; teeth 
finely villlform, premaxillary band broader than maxillary 
band, palatine patches oval and separated, pterygoid in very 
narrow band; interorbital 4 2/5 to 7 3/4, below, broadly 
convex. Gill rakers 4 or 5 ^ 10 to 14, lanceolate, rather 
robust, 1 3/5 in orbit; gill rakers 3/4 gill filaments. 
Scales 36 enlarged in lateral line to anal, then about 
28 to first third of anal; i4 above, 4 below, 31 predorsal 
to occiput. Top of head naked, postocular scaly. Fins 
scaly. Scales very caducous, mostly all fallen. S ca i es W ith 
5 to 7 short marginal basal radiating stria,e; circuli very 
fine, numerous, not extended apically. 
D. I to III, 9, I or 10, I, first branched ray 1 2/3 
to 21/8 in head, fin origin nearly over ventral with age, in 
young at first eighth between ventral and anal origins; 
first anal ray 2 4/5 to 4 1/5; tail long slender tapering 
filament, caudal very short; pectoral 1 9/10 to 1 1/6, ventral 
2 1/5 to 2 2/5. 
