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Depth 4 2/5; head 3 1/8, width 1 4/5. Snout 3 2/5 in head from snoi 
tip; eye 3 3/4, 1 1/10 in snout, slightly greater than interorbital; maxillary 
not quite reaching opposite front of eye, expansion 1/3 of eye, length 2 2/5 
in head from snout tip; teeth small, simple, conic, in bands in jaws; inter¬ 
orbital 3 1/2, depressed, scarcely concave. Gill rakers 3—8, lanceolate, 
shorter than gill filaments, which equal eye. 
Scales 39-1-2 in median lateral series; 10 transversely between soft 
dorsal and anal; 18 predorsal. Scales crowded on predorsal and breast, and 
largest on posterior regions of body. Head naked, except small scales on occi-| 
put which extend forward opposite hind pupil edge. Sealeswlth 10 to 14 basal 
radiating striae; apical denticles 20 to 23; circuli coarse. 
D. IX—I, 11, second spine 3 in total head length, first branched 
ray 2; A. I, 7, first branched ray 2 1/3; caudal 1 1/4, convex behind; least 
depth of caudal peduncle 2 7/8; pectoral 1 l/o; ventral 1 2/3. Anal papilla 
long as pupil. 
Pale brownish, back and sides with 9 darker cross bands, represented 
by as many obscure brownish blotches on side of body axially, in whicn scale 
edges darker. Blackish blotch at suprascapula. Iris pale slaty. Dark streaks 
from below eye over cheek. Dusky blotch on opercle. Spinous dorsal dusky, 
otherwise fins all pale or dull gray brown. Dorsals with 5 dull longitudinal 
