Depth 5 to 5 1/2; head 3 to 3 1/3, width 1 4/5. Snout 2 1/2 to 
2 4/5 in head; eye 4 to 6, 1 1/2 to 2 in snout, greater than interorbital; 
maxillary reaches front eye edge, or 1/3 in eye, length 2 3/5 in head;upper 
teeth uniserial, anteriorly slightly larger and slightly curved in jaw; lower 
teeth biserial, outer series ending in slight antero-lateral canine; tongue 
with front edge broadly convex, not notched; interorbital 6 1/2 to 8 in head, 
level. Gill rakers 14-7, lanceolate, 1 1/4 in gill filaments, which 1 4/5 in 
eye 
Scales 78 to 80-4-7 to 10 in median lateral series; 30 transversely 
between soft dorsal and anal origins; head naked and occipital scales not 
reaching eyes. Scales with 10 or 11 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 
7 or 8—7 or 8; circuli fine. 
D. VI—I, 12, t, fourth spine 1 1/5 to 1 4/5 in head, ends in fila- 
ment, twelfth ray 1 3/5 to 2 2/5; A. I, 12, i, twelfth ray 1 3/5 to 2 2/5; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 2 3/4 to 3; pectoral 1 1/4 to 1 l/3;%entral 
1 3/4 to 1 3/5; caudal ends in long median point, length 2 7/8 to 3 1/4 in 
rest of fish. 
Light brown or gray brown, slightly paler to whitish on under surface 
of head and belly. Four longitudinal pale streaks or narrow bands; first begin 
on 
nape and reaches last dorsal ray; second starts from snout through eye an d 
