1009 * 
Depth 6 1/2 to 7 (to end of broken tail); head 6 1/4 to 6 1/2, 
wiath 1 l/2 to 2* Snout 3 2/3 to 4 l/5 in head; eye 2 4/5 to 2 7/8, 
greatly exceeds snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite hind 
ey© edge, length from front end 1 4/5 to 1 7/8 in head; preoral vertic- 
I 
ally oblique in profile, length 4 2/3 to 6 l/5 in head; mandibular bar¬ 
bel 2 1/5 to 2 3/5; teeth in villifom bands in jaws, with outer row of 
larger, well spaced, curved, pointed teeth, in lower jaw smaller; inter¬ 
orbital 3 1/2 to 4 1/4 in head, low, nearly level. Gill rakers 2+8 
short low knobs on second arch, nearly 2/5 gill filaments, which 1/3 of 
eye. 
Scales all fallen, only indistinct pockets remaining, evidently 
of quite snail size. Only few small scales remaining on breast, which 
finely rugose* 
££* or 1°?# soft fin not made out, second simple ray 
with at least series of 4 low antrorse points well spaced terminally; 
in^erdorsal space 2 to 2 1/4 in head; A. 154? to end of broken tail, fin 
rather low, height nearly equals eye; pectoral rays I, 20, fin 2 3/5? in 
head; ventral rays I, 8, broken off short. 
Brown, sides of head, body and tail burnished with silvery white. 
* 
Iris pale or whitish. Inside mouth pale and gill openings dark brown. 
Fins all pale brownish or tinged with brassy, not dark. 
Gulf Streaxa* West; Indies* 
