2069 
Depth 5 2/3; head 3 2/3, width 2 2/5. Snout 6 in head from 
snout tip; eye 4 3/5, greater than snout, 1 l/lO in interorbital 
anteriorly; maxillary reaches 1 3/4 eye diameters behind hind eye 
edge though not quite to well inclined hind preopercle edge, slender, 
length 1 1/3 in head from snout tip; interorbital 4 1/4, slightly 
depressed. Gill rakers 6 f 11, slender, lanceolate, equals interorbital; 
gill filaments 2 1/3 in gill rakers. 
Scales 35 in lateral line to caudal base, enlarged, especially so 
on caudal peduncle so depth 1 3/4 in least depth of caudal peduncle; 
3? above, 4 below, 11 predorsal forward to occiput. Ventral with 
pointed axillary scale 3 3/5 in fin. Scales with 3 basal radiating 
striae; cireuli fine. Scales quite caducous, mostly fallen. 
