1460 
Depth 6 to 8; head 3 1/8 to 3 2/3, width 1 3/5 to 2 1/8. 
u 
Snout 4 to 5 in head from upper Jaw tip; eye 5 1/5 to 8 3^4, 
1 1/4 to 2 in snout, 1 1/3 to 1 2/5 in interorbital; pre¬ 
maxillary reaches 1 1/2 to 1 3/5 eye diameters behind eye, 
length 1 1/2 to 1 3/5 in head from snout tip; interorbital 
5 7/8 to 8 1/2, concave. Gill rakers numerous, minute, low 
spinules; gill filaments 1 4/5 to 2 in eye. 
Scales 55 to 60 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 
4 more on latter; 5 or 6 above, 6 or 7 below, 19 to 22 pre¬ 
dorsal, 7 to 10 rows on postocular and hind portion for 
nearly half its area sometimes naked. Ventral axillary scale 
3 1/2 in fin. Scales with 3 or 4 basal radiating striae, edges 
scalloped; circuli very fine, not extended apically. 
D. Ill, 10, I or III, 11, I, first branched ray 2 to 2 2/5 
in total head length; adipose fin 6 1/2 to 7; A. Ill, 6, I or 
III, 7, I, first branched ray 2 2/3 to 3 1/4; caudal 1 4/5 to 
2, forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 6 1/5 to 6 1/4; 
pectoral 2 1/3 to 2 4/5; ventral 1 1/6 to 1 1/4. 
) 
Dusky olive above, below whitish. On back 7 dusky saddb 
like blotches with alternating paler ones. Head blotched with 
dusky and 2 dusky bands across Jaws below. Iris neutral gray. 
Dorsal and caudal grayish, finely banded with dusky, other 
fins whitish. 
