Depth 4^ to 4 4/5; head 3 to 3 1/5? width equal to body depth. 
Snout length little greater than eye; eye 5 1/5 to 5£? elevated; maxillary 
reaches below front portion of eyes, length in profile 2 1/3 in head; 
mouth wide, inclined, lower jaw projecting; teeth in 4 rows anteriorly in 
each jaw, outer upper row fixed, enlarged, widely spaced, others small, 
depressible and uniform; lower teeth enlarged, fixed, irregularly disposed 
distributed in both outer and inner rows, especially far back and other 
teeth small, uniform and depressible; interorbital 3 2/5 to 4 1/5 in head, 
broad, flat; large pore on inner side of each nostril, one above and one 
behind eye, latter at origin of groove running above opercle, 2 more 
farther back on groove and 4 on hind edge of preopercle. 
Scales 50 to 52 in lateral series, 17 or 18 transversely, 32 to 
34 predorsal. Entire body, except lips, snout tip, space between eyes 
and lips, and chin, covered with scales. On middle of sides, behind 
pectoral and back to caudal scales ctenoid, much larger than elsewhere, 
others cycloid. Caudal scaly, other fins naked. Radiating downward 
from eye number of rows of minute papillae, with very small scales between 
posterior ones. 
Dorsal VI - I, 9; A. I, 8; dorsal and anal low, without elongated 
