Depth 1*3 to 2 l/8; head 3 l/4 to 3 2 / 5 , width 2 l/4 to 2 2 / 5 . Snout 
I 1/4 to I I/M eye 4 3/4 to 5 7/8, 3 2/5 to 4 l/3 in snout, I 2/3 to I 7/8 
in interorbitaj| teeth 18 to 20 in jaws, moderate; maxillary 4 l/8 to 4 2/3 
in head; inter§§ v bital 3 to 3 l/8; opercle, preopercle flange and humeral 
arch with radifjting striae, rather fine, not prominent. G-ill rakers 8 - 16, 
short, cuneate, fjfleshy, flexible 
11, narrowly - imbricated, circuli extremely 
Scales broadly^ 
fine and numerous; apical denticles%4 to 22, with II to 13 transverse 
fl l 
It 
series of basal elements more or lesjl as complete cusps. 
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D. IX, 27, i to 29, i, last spilfe I 4/5 to 2 l/8 in head, nineteenth 
m 
ray I l/3 to I 2/3; A. Ill, 25, i tjf 27, i, third spine 2 l/2 to 2 3/5, 
nineteenth ray I l/4 to I 2/3; caufcl deeply emarginate or lunate, end 
produced in points, long with 2 to, 3 2/3 irrcombined head and body; 
least depth of caudal peduncle m 2/3 to 2 3/4 in head; pectoral I to 
I i/lO; ventral I l/6 to I l/3;ly?audal s| 
to 3 1/3. 
