Depth to 5 2/5; head 2 - 4 , width 1 4/5 to 2. Snout 3 4/5 to 4 
in head from snout tip; eye 4-| to 52? greater than snout in young to I -4 
in snout with age, greater than interorbital in young to 1-3 in interorbital 
with age; maxillary extends \ to 3/5 in eye, length 2 1/3 to 2 4/5 in 
head from snout tip; teeth finely villifom, in bands in jaws, narrowing 
behind and inner row in each slightly larger; tongue subtruncate in front; 
interorbital 5 to 6 , low, depressed concavely. Gill opening extends for- 
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ward opposite hind edge of pupil. Gill rakers 6 -+-12, lanceolate, equal 
gill filaments, or 1/3 in eye. 
Scales 33 to 36 in axial lateral series to caudal base and 3 or 4 
more on latter; 12 or 13 scalestransversely between second dorsal and anal 
origins; predorsal scaleless, likewise head, chest,breast, prepectoral 
region and middle of belly* Largest scales on tail. Four short lines 
transversely of small papillae on each side of snout above, bounded by 
longitudinal line to fourth line, which continuous across front of inter¬ 
orbital. Five or 6 short transverse lines radiate in interorbital from 
each upper eye edge, and as many below down on cheek from each lower edge 
of eyes. Postocular line of papillae back toward suprascapula, with short 
radiating bars above and below. Above upper front angle of opercle 
vertical line of papillae extends down on subopercle, and another line in¬ 
clined back toward upper part of pectoral base. Line along each upper 
lateraledge of mandibular ramus, giving off 8 bars transversely inward. 
Line along lower cheek arched upward behind, and another along lower part 
of preopercular flange semi-parallel, and both giving off transverse bars, 
that of cheek extending both above and below and that on preopercular flange 
extended below. Scales with 13 to 24 little radiating basal striae; 35 to 
48 apical denticles, largely uniform; circuli rather coarse. 
