Depth 5 1/4; head 4, width 1 2/5. Snout 3 1/2 in head; eye 5 1/5, 
1 3/4 in snout, 1 2/3 in interorbital; mouth wide, gape extends opposite 
1/3 of eye, inferiro; maxillary 2 in head; row of fine, even, close set, shorl 
teeth along each edge of jaw, lower all flaring out laterally; also 12 inner 
larger mandibular teeth, gradually larger to symphyseal pair, each of last 
inclined little outward; tongue adnate, knob like; interorbital 3 1/6, broad, 
flattened. 
Scales 50+5 in median lateral series; 16 transversely; 15 predor- 
% 
sal. Head naked. 
D. VI—I, 11, I, first branched ray 1 7/8 in head, third spine ' 
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2 3/4 in combined head and body; A. I, 10, i, first branched ray 2 1/8; 
caudal rounded convexly behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 1/8; 
pectoral 3 3/4; ventral disk 1 4/5. 
Mostly uniform umber. Under surface of head, ventrals and belly pale. 
