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Depth 4 1/2; head 3 1/8 to 3 1/4, width 1 3/5. Snout 3 to 3 1/10 in 
head; eye 3 1/10 to 3 1/8, subequal with snout, greatly exceeds interorbital, 
maxillary reaches front eye edge, length 2 1/2 to & 2/3; mouth large, jaws 
equal; teeth small, in narrow bands in jaws, outer series slightly enlarged; 
tongue broadly convex in front; interorbital 7, narrow, level. Gill rakers 
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44-6, lanceolate, 1 1/4 in gill filaments, which 2 1/3 in eye. 
Scales 29 or 30 -j- 3 in median lateral series; 13 or 14 transversely, 
7 or 8 imbedded predorsal scales, region largely naked. Cheek with 3 horizon¬ 
tal rows of minute pores of which 2 lower double rows; row from behind eye to 
suprascapula; row across opercle, along preopercle flange and forward on 
under mandibular face. Scales with 19 or 20 basal radiating striae, apical 
denticles 16 or 17 -f- 13 to 16; circuit minute. 
D # VT —I, 9, i, second spine terminally filamentous, 1 1/8 to 1 1/4 
in head, first ray 1 7/8; A. I, 9, I, fourth ray 2 2/5; caudal 1, rounded; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 2 1/3; pectoral 1/5 to 1 1/4; ventral 1 1/5 to 
1 1 / 2 . . 
* 1 
Brown, little paler on under surface of head and belly. Middle of side 
with 3 large rounded dusky brown blotches, each little larger than eye and 
last at caudal base. Back mottled with darker brown than.body color and dusky 
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blotch at base of spinous dorsal posteriorly or before soft dorsal. 
