Depth 4 1/4 to 5; head 3 1/2 to 3 2/3, width 2 1/8 to 2 1/5. 
Snout 5 to 5 2/3 in head; eye 3 1/10 to.3 1/5, greater than snout, 
greater than interorbital to subequal with age; maxillary reaches well 
beyond eye though not to little inclined hind preopercle edge, expansion 
3 l/5 to 3l/2 in eye, length 1 1/2 to 1 3/5 in head; interorbital 31/4 
to 3 2/5, low, very slightly and broadly convex, dill rakers 5 f 13 to 15 
lanceolate, 1 1/2 in eye, equal gill filaments. 
Scales 38 to 40 in lateral line; 3 above, 3 or 4 below, 13 or 14 
predorsal to occiput. Apparently no enlarged axillary ventral scale. 
Caudal base scaly. Scales with 4 or 5 basal radiating striae and 5 or 6 
short weak apical marginals; circuli very fine, obsolete apically# 
