Depth 3 4/5 to 4$ head 3 1/8 to 3<L > width to 1-4. Snout 4 to 
4 J in head from snout tip; eye 5 i= to 6 , 1 1/3 to l-g- in snout, 1 4/5 to 2 
in interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite front eye edge to 1/5 in eye, 
length 3 1/5 to 3 4 in head from snout tip; teeth finely villiform, in 
rather broad bands in jaws, none on palate or tongue; end of tongue con- 
vexly rounded; interorbital 3 to 3 3/5? low, depressed, level to slightly 
concave. Obtuse short preopercular spine. Gill opening extends forward 
to or slightly before vertical hind edge of preopercle. Gill rakers 2 -f* 8, 
short firm points, 1 of gill filaments, which 1-4 in eye. 
Scales 28 ~h 3 or 4 in axial lateral series; 10 transversely above 
anal origin, 19 or 20 predorsal forward above hind nostril. Row of papillae 
over nostril and eye back and down to postocular line extending to supra- 
scapula, then down from hind eye edge along lower eye edge, and forward to 
preorbital; 2 short bars, as one along each side of front of snout edge; 2 
short parallel transverse close set bars at each side of internasal space; 
horizontal row below eye on cheek; row along each side of lower mandibular 
face to and along preopercular flange. Head scaled, 7 rows on cheek below 
eye; muzzle and branchiostegal region naked. Small scales on chest, breast, 
front of interorbital, prepectoral region and caudal base. 
D. VII - 2? 8, I, second spine 2 1/10 to 2 1/8 in total head 
length, last ray l| to 2; A. I, 8, t, last ray 1 4/5 to 1 9AO? caudal 
1 1/10 to 1 1/8, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 1/8 to 2^; 
pectoral 1 1/3 to l|, rays i, 14; ventral rays JE, 5 ? fin 1 1/8 to lA- in 
total head length. Anal papilla long flat lobe, 1§ times eye. 
Dull dark brown, scarcely paler on breast and belly or under sur¬ 
faces . Side of body with 7 broad blackish brown longitudinal bands, 
traversing scale junctures. Two blackish brown bars horizontally on upper 
