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Depth 5 3/5 to 7 4/5; head 3 2/3 to 4 1/4, width 
1 7/8 to 2. Snout 3 7/8 to 4 1/3 in head; eye 4 to 6, 1 1/3 
in snout, 1 1/3 to 1 2/5 in interorbital; adipose lids rather 
narrow; premaxillary extended 1 1/5 to 2 eye diameters be¬ 
hind eye, length 1 2/5 to 1 3/5 in head; Interorbital 4 to 6, 
slightly concave. Gill rakers 30 + 50, fine denticles, 
barely 1/3 gill filaments, which 1/2 of eye. 
Scales 44 to 51 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 
more on latter; 4 above, 4 to 6 below, 17 or 18 predorsal, 5 
rows on postocular. Axillary pectoral scale 3 in fin, ven¬ 
tral axillary scale 3 in fin. Scales with 2 or 3 basal rad¬ 
iating striae, edge scalloped; circuli fine. 
D. II, 8, I or II, 9, I, first branched ray 1 l/5 to 1 
2/5 in head; adipose fin 5; A. IV, 6, I to IV, 8, I, first 
branched ray 2 1/8 to 2 1/4; caudal 1 1/4 to 1 1/3, forked; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 4 to 4 1/3; pectoral 1 4/5 to 
1 7/8; 1 1/8 in postocular; ventral 1 1/6 to 1 1/4 in head. 
Brown, paler to whitish below. Back with 7 dukky brown 
saddles, interspaces with transverse streaks of paler brown. 
Along lateral line brownish blotch at each dark saddle and 
streaks over back. Head above mottled with darker. Four deep 
brown transverse blotches on mandible. Iris brown. Fins pale 
brown, each dorsal ray with 7 deep brown spots. Caudal with 
3 irregular broad deep brown transverse bands, in pale inter¬ 
spaces 3 or 4 narrow paler lines. Anal whitish. Pectoral 
with 4 transverse Irregular wavy brown lines and 3 on ventral 
only paler. 
