V 
Depth 4 to 5 2/3j head 3 to 3 1/8, width 1a . Snout 3 4/5 to 3 7/8 
in head from snout tip; eye 5 ? 1 1/5 to if in snout, 1 to 1 1/8 in inter¬ 
orbital; maxillary reaches opposite front eye edge, length 2 3/5 to 2 f 
in head from snout tip; teeth villiform, slender, conic, in 7 or 8 trans- 
verse irregular series, in rather broad bands in jaws, outer row in each 
slightly enlarged; tongue with end convex around edge; interorbital 5 * 
low, depressed, level. Gill opening extends forward opposite hind pre- 
opercle edge. Gill rakers 2 9, short low knobs, 1/3 of gill filaments 
which 1 3/5 in eye. 
Scales 37 or 38 -f- 2 or 3 in axial lateral series; 11 transversely 
above anal origin; 16 to l8 predorsal forward opposite hind eye edge. 
Muzzle, front of interorbital, cheek and branchiostegal region naked. 
Row of fine papillae begins over nostrils, runs in interorbital over eye, 
down along hind and lower eye edge to middle of maxillary, with 2 close 
set postocular rows, upper to suprascapula and lower turns vertical on 
preopercle giving 2 rows on lower edge of cheek, both forward on lower 
face of mandible; 4 horizontal rows on cheek; 2 vertical close set rows 
on front of opercle and other short various rows on subopercle. Scales 
on chest, prepectoral region, and caudal base small. Scales with 19 or 
23 radiating basal striae; 80 to 86 uniserial apical denticles, slender, 
sharp pointed, close set, larger laterally on scales; circuli fine, 
obsolete apically. 
D. VII or VIII - t, 10, ! or if, 8 , 1, fourth spine 2-f in total 
head length, fifth branched ray 1% to 2 1/8; A. 1, 10, 1, sixth branched 
ray 2 to 2 1 / 10 ; caudal if, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 
2\ to 2 3 / 5 ? pectoral 1 1/5 to 1 1 / 3 , rays 20 ; ventral rays 1 ^, 5 ? fin if 
to 1 7/8 in total head length. Anal papilla long, pointed, flap long as 
eye. 
