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Depth 3 3/5 to 4; head 3 2/3 to 3 4/5, width if to 1 7/8. Snout 
1/5 to 3/10 of a diameter shorter than eye, obtuse; eye 3 1/5 to 3 2/5 
in head, maxillary reaches nearly to or to vertical of front eye edge, 
length 3 2/5 to 3 4/5 in head; interorbital 4 to 4-f, gently convex. Lower 
gill rakers 7* 
Scales 29 or 30 in lateral series; 8 transversely. All scales 
imbricate, on head, nape and throat cycloid and smaller than body scales, 
which of equal size and ciliated. 
D. VII or VIII - I, 10 to 12, fifth and sixth spines 1 7/8 to 2 2/5 
in head, reach to or beyond second dorsal origin, posterior rays 1 1/5 to 
1-1; A. I, 11 to 14, begins below second dorsal origin, similar; caudal 
rather short, 4 1/5 to 4-f in total length; caudal peduncle rather slender; 
pectoral rays 15, reaches end of first dorsal, if to 1 2/5 in head; ventral 
1 3/10 to 1 3/5, not or quite reaching vent. Anal papilla oblong, not or 
quite reaching anal. 
Pale olive green, more or less clouded above with purplish-brown. 
Iris silvery. Fins hyaline. Dorsals and anal with broad coppery marginal 
band. 
Length 52 mm. (Ogilby.) 
Queensland. 
