Depth 6 7/10 in total length; head 4^, width 1^. Snout short, 
obtusely rounded, 4/5 of eye; eye 3 4/5 in head; maxillary scarcely reaches 
front eye edge; jaws equal, mouth cleft very oblique; jaws with band of 
small hooked teeth, outer row much enlarged; interorbital narrow, concave, 
width less than 1/3 of eye; upper profile of head very slightly convex. 
Scales 37 in lateral series; 9 transversely. Scales on body 
strongly ctenoid; on occiput and opercle cycloid, rest of head scaleless. 
Occipital scales not reaching to between hind edges of orbits, preceded by 
closed pore. Three series of scales between dorsals. Head without open 
pores or distinct series of warts. 
D. VI - I, 8, spines weak, 4/7 of body height, much lower than 
rays which longest posteriorly; A. I, 9> begins below third dorsal ray and 
continued some distance behind second dorsal base; caudal rounded, 5 1/3 
in total length; pectoral rays 19, subcuneiform, not quite long as head; 
ventral rays I, 5? fin moderate, not reaching vent, 2/3 length of head. 
Anal papilla moderate. 
Uniform brownish. Vertical fins hyaline; upper half of first 
dorsal brownish orange; second dorsal with 2 or 3 irregular series of spots 
on outer half; front anal rays brownish. Other fins pale brown. 
Length 65 mm. (Ogilby.) 
