Depth 4 2/5 to 5; head 3 to 4, width 2 to 2 1/8. Snout 3 in head;\' 
eye 4 to 5 1/4, 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 in snout, 1 1/3 to greater than interorbital; 
maxillary reaches eye, length 2 3/5 in head; teeth conic, well spaced, uniseri¬ 
al in jaws, and each side below little advanced posteriorly directed canine; 
tongue rounded, entire; interorbital ,4 1/8, little convex. Gill rakers 7 short, 
flexibe, feeble points on lower half of first arch, 1/2 of gill filaments, 
which 1 1/3 in eye. 
Scales 120-f-lO in median lateral series; 40 transversely between soft 
v. 
dorsal and anal origins; 26 predorsal. Head and narrow median predorsal strip 
naked. Caudal base, chest and breast finely scaled. Scales with 5 to 10 basal 
radiating striae; apical denticles 16 to 24; circuli very fine. 
D. VI, I, 18, I, spines end in filaments, second 2 3/4 in combined 
head and trunk, third ray 2 1/5 in head; A. I, 17, i, third ray 2 1/8; caudal 
1 1/10, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 1/8 ; pectoral 1 2/5; 
ventral 1 1/2. 
Uniform dull brovm. or olive, under surface of head and belly pale to 
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whitish . Gray or pale bluish line from near end of maxillary, bordered by 
dark line, extends to upper angle of opercle behind. Sometimes similar smaller 
line on preopercle and another on subopercle, or behind eye some round spots 
of same color. Dorsals light brown, crossed by pale reddish longitudinal 
