Depth 3 3/5 to 4£; head 3 to 3^, width 1 1/3 to l£. Snout 4 to 
5h in head; eye 3 1/8 to 3 f, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary 
reaches £ in eye, length 2 1/5 to 2 ^ in head; teeth simple, conic, uni¬ 
serial, usually with pair of little enlarged wide set caninesin front of 
f 
lower jaw; interorbital narrow, depressed, sunken between eyes which im¬ 
pinge on upper profile, bony width 1/3 eye diameter. Gill opening 2 in 
head. 
Scales 26 -f" 2 in lateral axial series; 7 transversely above anal 
origin. Predorsal, head, prepectoral region, breast and chest naked. 
Caudal base Scaly. Scales with 14 to l 6 basal radiating striae; 25 to 31 
apical denticles, uniserial; circuli moderately coarse. 
D. VI - I, 10, 1 or I, 9 $ I* first spine sometimes filamentous or 
reaches middle of base of soft dorsal, to 1 2/3 in head, second branched 
ray 1 4/5 to 2; A. I, 8 , 1, seventh branched ray l\ to 1 3/5? caudal 
1 to 1 1 / 5 , convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 1 2/3 to 2 ; 
pectoral 1 to 1 1/5 times head, rays 15 ; ventral I, 5 ? fin subequal with 
head. Anal papilla long as pupil. 
Pale brownish, with 7 obscure narrow transverse darker cross bars, 
last close before caudal base and with black, median contrasted blotch 
less than eye. Transverse dark bands with 2 above anal base and 3 on 1ower 
surface of caudal peduncle. Iris gray. Sides and lower surface of head 
with slightly darker brown irregular blotches, more as speckled on mandible 
and branchiostegal region, though not greatly contrasted. First dorsal 
dark gray terminally, cream white basally. Second dorsal brownish basally 
and broadly whitish terminally, only edge narrowly gray. Anal dark brown. 
Caudal light brown, yellowish basally and with 4 or 5 narrow transverse 
