Depth 4 to 4 3/5; head 3f to 3 4/5, width 1 4/5 to 1 7/8. Snout 4 
to 4-4 in head from snout tip; eye 3 1/3 to 4, greater than snout, 1 to l\ 
in interorbital; maxillary reaches f to eye, length 4 1/8 to 4 1/3 in head 
from snout tip; teeth minute, in moderate villiform bands in jaws, none on 
palate; tongue with front end slightly truncate; interorbital 3 1/8, broadly 
convex. Gill rakers 4 f 11, lanceolate, \ of gill filaments, which Ig- in 
eye. 
Scales 26 to 28 + 3 or 4 in axial lateral series; 10 transversely 
above anal origin; 17 or l8 predorsal forward to front of snout; 4 or 5 rows 
on cheek. Head largely scaled, lips, front edge of snout, mandibular rami 
and branchiostegal region naked. Small scales on caudal base, prepectoral 
region, chest and breast. Scales with 13 to 17 basal radiating striae; row 
of 65 to 86 short, pointed apical denticles; circuli fine, little coarser 
to obsolete apically. 
D. VT - I_, 8, T, third spine 1 4/5 in total head length, last ray 
1 2/5 to 2; A. I, 9, t or I, 10, f, last ray if to 2 1/8; caudal 1 to 1 1/10 
little convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 to 2 1/5; pectoral 1 
to 1 1/5, rays t, 10; ventral I, 5, fin 1 1/3 to lA- in total head length. 
Anal papilla rather broad flap, little shorter than eye and its hind e dge 
notched. 
Brown, under surfaces of head and body paler. Iris dark gray. 
Dark brown longitudinal band from pectoral base to bases of medial lower 
caudal rays, where ending in a blackish blotch. Blackish brown bar down 
from origin of pectoral across its base. Spinous dorsal dark gray, with 
6 or more large rounded white blotches. Soft dorsal dark gray, with 4 to 
6 irregular rows of close set whitish rounded large blotches. Caudal pale 
brownish, with 6 to 8 dark bars on each ray, most intense basally on fin. 
