Depth 4 1/2; head 3, width 1 1/3. Snout 4 2/3 in head from snout tip;! 
eye 7 1/3, 1 1/2 in snout, 2 in interorbital; maxillary reaches 1/2 in eye, 
expansion 2 1/2,length 2 1/2 in head from snout tip; teeth in broad villiforml 
bands in jaws, none on palate; tongue convexly rounded in front; interorbitalI 
3 3/4, level. Gill rakers 34-9, tubercles, half of gill filaments, which I 
1 1/5 in eye. I 
Scales 54 in median lateral series to caudal base; 18 transversely I 
* m 
at soft dorsal origin; 38 predorsal. Muzzle naked, rest of head scaly.Caudal I 
and paired fins with small scales crowded basally. Anteriorly on body scales I 
all cycloid. Cheek with 3 horizontal grooves over which scales do not pass. I 
Scales with 32 to 35 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 36; circuli I 
fine, irregular. I 
D. VI-4-1,8,i, third spine 2 4/5 in total head length, seventh ray I 
CC3 H 
H 
2 1/2; A. i,8,i, seventh branched ray 2 1/8; caudal 1 1/3, rounded behind; I 
least depth of caudal peduncle 2 1/2; pectoral 1 2/3; ventral 1 3/5. I 
Dark brownish, mottled with paler and dusky. Under surface of head I 
• sum 
brown with white markings, marblings, short streaks or spots, especially on I 
branchiostegal region.Kins all dusky, with more or less blackish generally I 
and marbled or spotted with whitish. Anal with especially prominent whitish I 
spots. 
