f 
Depth 3 3/5 to 4£; head 3 2/5 to 3 3/5, width 1 1/3 to 1 2/3. 
Snout 4 1/5 to 4^ in head; eye 3 1/3 to 3 3/5-> greater than snout or 
interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite hind pupil edge, length 2\ to 
2^ in head; teeth firm, erect, simple, conic, upper with outer row widely 
spaced and inner as narrow band of minute teeth, lower triserial; inter¬ 
orbital very narrow, depressed between eyes and equals 2/5 of eye. Gill 
rakers 3 +- 5 or 6 short, weak points, about 1/3 of gill filaments, which 
i of eye. 
Scales 21 or 22 + 2 or 3 in axial lateral series; transversely 
8 or 9 at soft dorsal and anal origins. Head, predorsal, pectoral base 
and prepectoral, chest and preventral region naked. Scales with 15 or 
16 basal r adiating striae; row of 35 to 47 apical denticles, uniformly 
short and simple. 
D. VI - I, 10, t, first spine 1^- in head to 3 in combined head 
and trunk, first branched ray 1 1/3 to 1 3/5 in head; A. 1, 8, 1, eighth 
ray 1 1/5 to 1 1/3; caudal 3 to 3 1/5 in rest of fish; least depth of 
caudal peduncle lj| to 1 4/5 in head; pectoral 3 to 3 1/8 in fish without 
caudal, rays 1, 15; ventral 1 1/10 in head. Anal papilla flattened, end 
fringed, little longer than pupil but less than eye* 
Light brown. Each scale with dark basal pocket made up of 
minute dark brown dots and due to scale rows form series of little crescents. 
Above opercle and each side of occiput blackish brown blotch little larger 
than pupil; posterior on predorsal 4 transverse dark brown bars; along 
dorsal bases about 10 dark brown blotches, contrasted but otherwise ir¬ 
regularly or little defined. Side of head with irregular and numerous 
dark brown spots, fewer in small specimens; also invade lips, interorbital 
and branchiostegals, where still smaller and more numerous. Two large and 
conspicuous blackish brown blotches on pectoral base. Iris gray, with 
