Depth 4 3/5 to 5 1/3; head 3 2/5 to 3 1/3, width 1 3/5 to 2.Snout 
2 2/5 to 4 in head from snout tip; eye 5 to 6, 1 3/4 to 2 3/4 in snout, 1 1/4 
to 1 3/4 in interorbital; maxillary reaches eye center, not quite to eye 
with age, length 2 1/5 to 2 3/5 in head from snout tip; teeth moderately long, 
conic, sharp pointed, in bands in jaws; interorbital 5, concave; preopercle 
edge entire. Gill rakers 3 -f- 8, low broad tubercles, greatly shorter than 
gill filaments, which 1 3/5 in eye. 
Scales 28 to 36 - 1 - in median lateral series, with very small additional] 
or auxiliary variable scales or 1 to 6 on basal portions of scales on body; 
\d to 13 transversely; 18 to 30 predorsal. Finely serrated ridge along upper 
and hind edges of orbit, from which divided by 2 rows of scales; serrated 
|ridge each side of mouth;serrations variable, obsolete with age. Scales with 
10 to 12 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 29 to 35; circuit moderate. 
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D. VI or VTI—I, 8, t, or I, 9, i, third spine 2 9/10 in total head 
ength, first ray 2 1/2, last ray 1 9/10; A. 1, 7, I, to 9, t, second ray 
2 3/5 to 2 9/10; caudal 1 1/3 to 1 2/5, convex behind; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 3; pectoral 1 3/5 to 1 2/3; ventral 2. 
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Dark gray browm to walnut brown above, sides and under surface fawn 
color. Three large dark brown blotches on side, buckled across back by narrow 
dark bar. Under surface of head speckled with darker. Dorsals and caudal dark 
