Depth 4 to 4 3/5; head 2| to 2 9/10, width l£ to l|. Snout 4 1/5 
to 4 1/3 in head from snout tip; eye 5 3/5 to 6, 1 1/8 to l£ in snout, 
1 1/8 to in interorbital; maxillary reaches front of eye in young to 
in eye with age, length 2 4/5 to 3 in head from snout tip; teeth minutely 
viHiform, unitorm, in rather broad bands in jaws and none on palate; 
tongue oroad, free, convex in front; interorbital 4 2/3 to 4 4/5 in head 
from snout tip, low, depressed or little concave; head unarmed or without 
preopercular spine. Gill rakers 3 + 9 , short points, 1/3 of gill filaments, 
which 2 in eye. 
Scales 55-^8 in axial lateral series; 19 transversely above anal 
origin, 34 predorsal forward midway in interorbital. Muzzle front of 
interorbital, lower half of cheek and preopercle, branchiostegal region naked. 
Lower scales of cheekjvery small or minute. Small scales on chest, breast, 
prepectoral and caudal base. Scales on head chest and breast cycloid, others 
ctenoid. Scales with 13 to l8 basal radiating striae; 38 to 54 apical 
denticles, graduated laterally larger on scale; circuli fine. 
Dorsal VI - I, 7, \, second spine 2 2/5 to 2*js- in total head length, 
third branched ray 2 to 2^; Anal I, 7, i, third ray 1 4/5 to 2 2/5; caudal 
