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Depth 6 to 8 2/5; head 3 1/4 to 3 2/3, width 1 9/10 
to 2 1/4. Snout 3 2/3 to 4 in head from snout tip; eye 4 1/5 
to 4 3/4, 1 to 1 1/8 in snout, greatly exceeds interorbital; 
premaxillary extends 1/2 to 3/4 eye diameters behind eye, 
length 1 2/3 to 1 4/5 in head from snout tip; Interorbital 
4 1/2 to 5, concave. G-ill rakers as minute numerous spinules; 
gill filaments 1 1/2 in eye. 
Scales 41 or 42 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 
more on latter; 4 above, 5 below, 12 or 13 predorsal, 4 rows 
on postocular to hind preopercle ridge. Scales with 3 basal 
radiating striae; circuli fine, not extended apically. 
D. II, 9, I or II, 10, I, first branched ray 1 1/3 to 1 
l/2 in total head length; aidpose fin 5 2/5 to 5 1/2; A. I, 8, 
I, first branched ray 2 3/4 to 2 4/5; caudal 1 2/5 to 1 1/2, 
deeply forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 1/2 to 4; 
pectoral 2 to 2 1/8; ventral 1 1/6 to 1 1/5. 
Back brown, mottled with darker. Four dusky transverse 
rather narrow bands on back. Along lateral line 8 dark blot- 
ches, below and in each interspace smaller dark spot, also 
dark spot may join or oppose larger dark blotches of lateral 
line. No dark blotch on shoulder girdle. Iris silvery. Dor¬ 
sal and caudal grayish. Paired fins and anal whitish. 
Caribbean Sea. 
