728 . 
Depth 5 1/2 to 5 2/5; heed 5 to 5 2/5, width 1 4/5 to 2. 
Snout 3 1/3 to 3 2/5 in heed; eye 3 l/4 to 3 1/3, 1 in snout, 
1 to 1 1/10 in interorbital; maxillary reaches l/4 to 2/5 in 
eye, length from front end 2 2/5 to 2 4/5 in head; mandibular 
barbel 1 l/3 to 1 2/5 in eye; teeth minute, villiform, in nar¬ 
row bands in jaws of 4 to 6 irregular transverse series; inter¬ 
orbital 3 1/2 to 3 3/5 in head, low, nearly level. Gill rakers 
1 + 13, low spinescent tubercles on second arch, l/3 of gill 
filaments, which 2 l/5 in eye* 
Scales (pockets) 114 in lateral line to pseudocaudal; 14 
above, 19 or 20 below, 36 prodorsal forward to snout end of 
which 20 extend forward till opposite hind edge of orbit. 
Scales with 6 or 7 radiating rows of short broad based apical 
spines, last projecting slightly behind scale edge; circuli moder¬ 
ate, complete. 
D* ii* ^ or ^ second slender ray pungent, besally 
with row of antrorse serrel along front edge, terminally filamentous, 
length 5 in total fish; A. 91 to 98, fin height 3 1/3 to 3 2/5 in 
heed; pectoral rays I, 19, fin 1 1/4 to 1 2/5 in head; ventral rays 
£, 11, fin 2 in bead. 
Brown. Head, above pale, much lighter than body* Jaws, under 
surface of head, opercles, breast and belly dark gray to neutral 
black, same shade extended back far as depressed pectoral above 
front of anal fin. Iris grayish. Inside mouth gray. Inside gill 
opening blackish. Fins light brown. 
Hawaiian Islands. 
