Depth 3 to 3 1/2; head 2 1/2 to 2 7/8, width 1 3/4. Snout 3 2/3 to ___ 
4 in head from snout tip; eye 2 4/5 to 3, greater than snout, greatly exceeds 
interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite front pupil edge, length 2 to 2 1/3 
in head from snout tip; mouth moderate, obliquely vertical, mandible protrud¬ 
ing; teeth biserial in jaws, rows widely spaced; upper jaw with inner row s 
short and teeth much smaller, lower jaw with inner row much larger?and extend 
» 
ing all around jaw, outer row only anterior; tongue with front edge convex; 
interorbital 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 in eye, narrow. Gill rakers 3—10, lanceolate, 
♦ 
half of gill filaments, which 3 in eye. 
Scales 22 to 25—3 in median lateral series; 10 transversely. On chee 
2 short horizontal rows of minute close set papillae; row along preopercle 
flange and then forward upon under face of mandible; row vertically down 
across opercle c;ose behind preopercle. Scales with 12 or 13 basal radiating 
striae; apical denticles 16 to 21; circuit moderate. 
D. VI—I, 9, second spine 1 1/2 in total head length or 2 8/5 in fish 
total 
without caudal, second ray 1 1/4 to 1 7/8 in head length; A. I, 9, second ray 
1 2/5 to 1 7/8; caudal 1 1/10 to 1 1/8, rounded behind; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 2; ventral 2 2/15 to 2 2/3; pectoral 1 1/8, length 2 2/6 in fish 
with out caudal. 
Brown, but little paleron under surface of head and belly. Two pale 
