Depth 4-4 to 4 1/3; head 3? width 1 2/3 to 1 7/8. Snout 3g to 3-| 
in head from snout tip; eye 4 2/3 to 5j» I-4 to lj in snout, lj- to 2 1/5 
in interorbital; maxillary reaches 1/5 in eye, length 2-| to 3 in head from 
snout tip; teeth finely villiform, in broad band in each ^aw, none on 
palate; end of tongue convex; interorbital 2| to 3, low, depressed, to 
slightly convex* Gill opening extends forward opposite hind preopercle edge. 
Gill rakers 4-^-9 o** 10, of which 3 above to ^ or 6 below rudimentary 
tubercles, others short points, J of gill filaments, which 2 in eye. 
Scales 33 or 34 in axial lateral series-to caudal base; 11 trans¬ 
versely above anal origin; 18 or 19 predorsal forward to front of snout; 
6 below eye on cheek. Head scaly, except muzzle and branchiostegal region. 
Small scales on pectoral and caudal bases. Row of papillae over eye, down 
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over suborbitals with branches on cheek and row from behind eye to supra- 
scapula; row on preopercle flange, forward on lower face of each mandibular 
ramus. Scales with 15 to 20 basal radiating striae; row of 26 to 46 conic, 
slender, apical denticles; circuli moderate, finer with age and obsolete 
apically. 
D. VII or VIII - I, 10, 1 or I, 11, t, fourth spine 2 7/8 to 3 1/3 
in total head length, last ray 1 9/1G to 2 1/5j A. I, 11, I, to I, 12, 1, 
last ray 2\ to 2 3/5? caudal l| to 1 1/3, convex behind; least depth of 
caudal peduncle 2\ to 2-|; pectoral 1% to l£, rays l5j ventral ray I, 5? fin 
1 7/8 to 2 in total head length. Anal papilla fleshy, rounded knob, 4 of 
eye. 
Brown, with darker brown axial streak on trunk and tail, in small 
example broken as 10 dark blotches, with last rounded and most contrasted. 
Two oblique dark brown bands across cheek from lower eyeedge to opercles, 
also 2 more dark parallel bars above in young. Narrow dark postocular line. 
