Depth 3; head 3 1/3, width 2. Snout 3 2/5 in head; eye 4, 1 1/5 in 
snout, equals interorbital; maxillary reaches 1/4 in eye, length 2 1/4 in head; 
teeth rather large, conic, in bands in jaws with outer row slightly enlarged, 
especially anterolaterals last of which curved; tongue obtuse, rounded in front; 
interorbital 4 1/6, broadly convex. Gill rakers 0—5, lanceolate, rather flexi¬ 
ble, 1 1/3 in gill filaments, which 1 8/3 in eye. 
Scales 52-f-8 in median lateral series; 21 transversely; 23 predorsal. 
Head largely naked, except upper part of cranium forward to middle of interorb¬ 
ital and upper part of opercles. Row of fine papillae along preorbital and 
close along lower and hind edges of eye, giving 6 short branches down below eye; 
postocular row back to suprascapula; row along preopercle edge and forward on 
lower face of each mandibular ramus; row horizontally from above maxillary bacK 
across cheek. Scales with 20 or 21 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 25 
to 30; circuli fine. 
D. VI—I, 14, r, fourth spine 1 1/10 in head, fourth ray 1 3/4; A. 
I, 14, i, fourth ray 1 3/4; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 1/8; pectoral 1; 
ventral 1; caudal 2 4/5 in rest of fish, pointed behind. 
Dull brown, becoming pale on under surface. On trunk and tail 6 trans¬ 
verse dark vertical bands.C^heek with scattered pale spots. Spinous dorsal dusky 
terminally and soft dorsal with median longitudinal dusky terminally and soft 
