* 20 / 
Depth 3 7/8 to 44*, head 2\ to 34* width 1 2/5 to 1 2/3* Snout 3 4/5 
to 4 in head from snout tip; eye 4 7/8 to 8J, 1^ to 2^ in snout, 2 1/5 to 
3i* in interorbital; maxillary reaches 4/5 to, or to front eye edge, length 
3 to 3 2/3 in head from snout tip; teeth in rather broad villiform bands in 
jaws, of 8 to 10 irregular series; palate toothless; tongue convexly 
rounded in front; interorbital 2 1/5 to 2jj>~ in head from snout tip, broad, 
flat; no preopercular spine. Gill rakers 4 to 6 -f-10 to 13, lanceolate, 2 
to 2 2/3 in gill filaments, which 2/3 to equal to eye. 
Scales 29 to 34-Jr4 to 8 in axial lateral series; 10 or 12 trans¬ 
versely above anal origin; 14 to 19 predorsal forward to upper lip. Head 
scaly, except end of snout, lips, mandible and branchiostegal region. Small 
scales on chest, breast and caudal base. How of papillae over nostrils and 
eyes, join postocular row extending to suprascapula, then branch down 
around lower eye edge and forward on preorbital; 2 horizontal rows on cheek; 
row along each lower face of mandibular ramus; row along preopercular flange. 
Scales with 14 to 24 basal radiating striae; 75 to 100 -fc- 91 to 110 slender 
minute apical denticles, uniserial, little enlarged toward outer edges of 
scale; circuli very fine, little coarser apically. 
D. VI - I_, 8, 1, third spine 2 3/5 to 2 2/3 in total head length, 
third ray 2 to 2 1/10; A. I_, 9? 1 or 1, 8, 1, ninth ray 2 to- 2 1/3; caudal 
1 to 1 1/5, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 to 3; pectoral 
l4 to li, rays ii, 12 or 13 ; ventral rays I, 5? fin 1 1/5 to 1-| in total 
head length. Broad flat anal papilla equals eye or little longer. 
Largely dark uniform brown above, under surfaces of head, belly 
and tail lighter. Some scales on sides of body with obscure blackish brown 
spots. Three dark or blackish brown streaks back and little inclined down 
along side of head. Iris grayish. Spinous dorsal brownish, membranes darker 
