Depth 4 1/2; head 3 1/4, width 1 1/2. Snout 3 1/6 in head; eye 3 3/5, 
1 1/10 in snout, supero-lateral; maxillary reaches opposite front eye edge, 
length 3 in head; hand of small, simple, conic teeth in each jaw, and an outer 
series enlarged and curved; tongue broad, depressed, front edge convex; inter¬ 
orbital 6 1/2, narrowly convex ridge. Gill rakers l-j-5, lanceolate, short, 
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barely half of gill filaments, which 3 in eye. 
Scales 30-j-2 in median lateral series; 11 transversely between soft 
dorsal and anal origins. Scales in even longitudinal rows on trunk. Head 
largely naked, only a few small scales on opercles, mostly above. Lower cheek 
with 4 horizontal series of pores, close set, indistinct; 2 short parallel 
rows across opercle above; vertical series close behind preopercle edge and 
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horizontal series across opercle. Scales on predorsal and occipital region 
sparse, small, weakly cycloid and obsolete. Except rather small scales on 
caudal base, all other fins naked. Scales with 20 to 24 cinvergent basal < 
radiating striae; apical denticles 50, graduated larger above and below; 
circuli fine. 
D. VI—- 1 , 9, third spine 1 7/8 in head, third ray 1 4/5; A. I, 9, 
third 2 1/3; caudal 1 1/4, convex dehind; least depth of caudal peduncle 
2 1/2; Pectoral 1 1/2; ventral 1 2/5. Vent close before anal. 
Pale avellaneius generally. Back and upper surface of head with many 
