Depth 5; head 3 1/4, width 1 3/5. Snout 4 in head measured from V&J' 
upper jaw tip; eye 3, greater than snout, 3 times interorbital; maxillary 
reaches opposite eye, length 2 1/2 in head from snout tip; teeth fine, in 
narrow bands in daws, outer row slightly enlarged, one each side of mandibel 
forward especially larger; tongue moderate, depressed, truncate, free in 
front; interorbital narrowly concave. Gill rakers 2-f-4, minute points, less 
than short gill filaments, which barely 1/3 of eye. 
Scales 25—2 in median lateral series; 9 scales transversely at soft 
dorsal and anal origins; 8 predorsal scales forward to eyes. Scaleslarge, 
firmly adherent, in even longitudinal rows, little smaller on caudal base, 
and apparently few or absent from head. Scales with 7 basal radiating striae; 
apical denticles 18-j-17; circuli fine basally, laterally coarser. 
D. VI—I, 10, second spine 1 7/8 in total head length, first branch- 
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ed ray 2; A. 9, eighth ray 1 2/5; caudal 1 1/8, convexly rounded behind; 
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least depth of caudal peduncle 2 1/2; pectoral 1 1/4; ventral 1 1/5. Anal 
papilla well developed. 
Pale brownish generally, under surface whitish. Sides with 6 narrow 
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dusky lines, all along lower side variegated by as many dull obsolete 
blotches. Some obsolete or pale dusky streaks on head, as several broken 
blotches on cheek. Sides of head sprinkled with minute dusky dots. Dorsals, 
