Depth 4 to 5; head 3 1/3 to 3 2/5, width 1 4/5 to 2. Snout 3 to 
3 1/6 in head from snout tip; eye 5 1/3 to 6, 1 4/5 in snout, 1 1/3 to if 
in interorbital; maxillary reaches 2/5 to f in eye, length 2 1/5 to 2f in 
head; teeth large, conic, simple, sharp pointed, irregularly biserial, at 
least anteriorly in jaws where little enlarged or canine like, with last 
antero-lateral below largest; palate toothless; tongue large, thick, convex 
in front; interorbital 3 2/3 to 4, low, nearly level. Gill rakers 047, 
lanceolate, if in gill filaments which 1 1/5 in eye; 2 lowermost gill rakers 
rudimentary small tubercles. 
Scales 120 + 12 in lateral axial series; 36 transversely above anal 
origin. Head, including predorsal, naked, also chest. Breast and caudal 
base scaly. Scales with 10 basal radiating striae; 8 rather long, uniserial 
apical denticles; circuli fine. 
Dorsal VI - I, 11, t, spines flexible with third 1 7/8 to 2 1/8 in 
head, third ray 2 1/3 to 2f; Anal. I, 11, t, third ray 2f to 2 7/8; caudal 
3 1/10 to 3 f- in rest of fish, median rays of each lobe extended in slender 
point; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 f to 2 3/5 in head; pectoral 1 3/7 
to if, rays 20; ventral rays I, 5, fin 1 4/7 to if in head . Anal papilla 
small, rounded. 
Back and upper surfaces pale fawn color, sides and below silvery 
white. Iris whitish. Dark brown band narrowly around snout end, through 
eye back above pectoral origin and along back to median upper caudal rays 
finally ending in caudal extension. Second parallel narrow blackish brown 
band from middle of maxillary back over cheek to mid-pectoral base down 
along lower part of tail and finally ending in lower caudal e xtension. 
Dorsals pale brownish, first fin with large terminal black blotch over first 
3 f membranes and broadly ocellated with white. Second dorsal with narrow 
brown margin next to white submargin. Ventrals and anal more or less cream 
white. 
