width lj to 1 3/5. Snout 3 1/8 
4 * 
Depth 3 h t- 0 4 2/5 5 head 24 to. 2-^, 
0 4 in head from snout tip; eye 4 7/8 to I 2 to 2 in snout, 1 7/8 to 
2 in interorbital; maxillary reaches 1/8 to \ in eye, length 2 1/5 to 2-4 
in head from snout tip; teeth large, simple, conic, upper with inner 
largest and depressible, in about 5 series; lower teeth in 2 wide set 
rows with inner depressible; tongue convex on front edge; interorbital 
3 3/5 to 3 I in head from snout tip. Gill opening cleft well forward or 
extends opposite front eye edge. Gill rakers 2 4-7, short, finely spines- 
cent tubercles. 
Scales 28 or 29-f-2 or 3 in axial lateral series; 14 transversely 
above anal origin; 30 predorsal forward opposite hind nostril. Postocular 
scales rather large, smaller on cheek and absent from its lower part; 
muzzle and branchiostegal region naked. Long row of postocular papillae 
to suprascapula; 3 horizontal rather close set rows on cheek; row above 
n 
ostrils, arches back each side of interorbital and meets postocular row, 
then down below lower eye e dge to upper horizontal row on cheek; double 
close set row along each 1ower face of mandible ramus, continues upon 
preopercle flange; bar down on subopercle. Breast and chest scaly, also 
small scales on prepectoral and caudal base. Scales with 18 to 20 basal 
radiating striae; 30 ~f~ 30 very short apical points, with 4 transverse 
series of small basal elements; circuli fine. 
D. VII - _I, 8, I, fourth spine 2\ to 2 2/3 in total head length, 
last ray 1 4/5 to 2 1/5; A. I, 7, 1, last ray 1 7/8 to 2 2/5; caudal 1 1/8 
to 1 2/5, convexly*rounded behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 4/> to 
3; pectoral 1 1/8 to 1 1/3, reaches 1/3 to \ in base of soft dorsau or 
anal, rays 1, 14 ; ventral 5, fin 1 2/5 to 2 4 in total head length. Anal 
papilla pointed cutaneous flap long as eye. 
