Depth 5 to 5 9/10; head 2 7/10 to 2 9/10, rather strongly de¬ 
pressed. Snout little longer than interorbital space; eye 4 2/5 to 5 3/5 
in head, 1 1/10 to 1 2/5 in snout, 1 to 1 3/10 in interorbital; maxillary 
reaches £ in eye; lower jaw prominent; bar of equally shaped villiform 
teeth in each jaw, in upper \ of eye diameter, lower bar somewhat narrower 
but little stronger teeth posteriorly; palate toothless; interorbital 
space 1 to 1 1/10 in snout; preopercle without spine. 
Scales 58 to 60 in lateral series; 18 transversely between anal 
and s econd dorsal, 28 round caudal peduncle. Scales on upper side of head 
reach to between eyes. 
Dorsal VI - I, 95 Anal I, 8; Pectoral 1, 15 • 
In spirits brownish, lighter on belly. Dark longitudinal bar 
from snout through eye to tail, rather broad and reaches over several rows 
of scales; margins not sharply defined, more or less variegated by lighter 
irregular spots, which sometimes confluent to 1ight streak. Well marked 
light streak borders upper edge of dark bar on postocular part of head. 
On root of tail bar broadens out and encloses one or more light spots. 
Caudal barred and variegated with dark and light color, other fins hyalin 
or partly marked with scattered blackish pigmentation. 
Length without caudal 32 to 57 mm* (Rendahl^ 
