945 . 
Depth 6 2/3 to 7 l/5j head 4 3/4 to 5 l/4, width 2 to 2 1/4* 
Snout 4 2/3 to 4 3/4 in head, 1 2/5 to 1 2/3 in eye; eye 2 l/2 to 2 3/4 
in head; preoral vertical, length 5; maxillary reaches nearly or quite 
opposite hind eye edge, length from front end 1 3/4 to 2 in head; barbel 
absent or vestigial; teeth minute, in narrow villiform bands or triser¬ 
ial, uniform; interorbital 3 l/3 to 4 l/4 in head, 1 2/5 to 1 l/2 in eye, 
well concave. Gill rakers 6 ♦ 17, low spinescent tubercles on second 
arch, 2 l/3 in gill filaments, which l/4 of eye. 
Scales most all fallen, thin, large, cycloid and pockets large¬ 
ly obliterated; 5? scales above lateral line, 10? predorsal forward 
opposite hind edge of orbit. Scales with simple; rather large, complete 
circuli. 
D. 13., 7—84? to 100, second simple ray slender, entire, 1 l/4 
to 1 2/5 in head; interdorsal space 1 3/5 to 1 3/4; A. 115, fin height 
3?; pectoral 1, 9 or 1^, 10, length 1 l/8 to 1 l/2? in head; ventral rays 
I_, 11, length 1 2/5 to 1 3/5 in head. 
Brownish, long slender tapering tail paler. Most of head end 
trunk more or less dusky to blackish brown, with brilliant leaden silvery 
reflections, especially sides of head and abdomen. Iris dusky or dark 
neutral gray* Inside mouth pale or gray* Inside gill opening sprinkled 
with dusky* paler well inside and often with silvery or coppery tints* 
Often silvery gray lateral streak along middle of side of tail* Fins 
all pale or very light brownish, often with dark speck at base of each 
dorsal and anal ray. 
Hawaiian Islands. A very abundant species, with head, trunk 
and fore part of body blackish, overshot with silvery gray sheen. 
