Depth 5 to 5|; head 3 2/5 to 3 3/5, width l£ to 1 7/8. Snout 3 3/5 
to 4 in head from snout tip; eye 5 to 5&, 1 1/8 to li in snout, greater 
than interorbital in young to subequal with age; maxillary reaches 
opposite eye in young, -4 to eye with age, length 3 1/5 to 3 2/5 in head 
from snout tip; teeth finely villiform, in rather broad bands in jaws, 
uniform; interorbital 4^ to 5 i> l°w, depressed or but slightly convex. 
Gill rakers 2+8, short points, 3 in gill filaments, which 1 2/3 in eye. 
Scales 32 or 33 4 or 5 in axial lateral series; 12 transversely 
above anal origin; 15 to 1 ? predorsal forward opposite hind eye edge. 
Muzzle, most of cheek and branchiostegal region naked. Small scales on 
pectoral and caudal bases. How of minute papillae from over nostril^ and 
eye, giving branch to suprascapula on postocular region, down along 
lower eye edge to preorbital; 4 or 5 horizontal rows on cheek; row on 
each lower face of mandibular ramus and up on preopercle flange; vertical 
row on preopercle and on front of opercle, another on its lower edge. 
Scales with 22 to 2? basal radiating striae; row of 55 to 88 slender fine 
apical denticles; circuli fine, coarser apically with age. 
D. vi - I, 9, 1 , third spine 2 1/10 to 2\ in total head length, 
third ray 2~to 2 1/8; A. I, 8 , 1, or _I, 9, t, last ray 2 1/3 to 2 3/5; 
caudal 1 1/5 to I 4 , convex behind; least depth of cauuax peduncle c. 1/6 
to 2 -J; pectoral 1 -| to 1 1/3, rays l 6 or 17; ventral rays I_, 5, l1U x */5 
to 1 A- in total head length. Anal papilla cuneate, truncated depressed 
flap nearly equal to eye. 
Brown, little paler to light on belly and under surfaces. Dctrk 
axial lateral band on body from head to caudal base. On back most of 
scales with dark spot. Iris gray. Fins dull brown, lower ones much 
paler. First dorsal with 2 longitudinal dark brown bands and second 
dorsal with 5 narrower ones. Caudal with 7 or 8 transverse dark brown 
