and predorsal edges scarcely keeled medially. Caudal 
peduncle compressed, length 4/5 its least depth, which is 
31/5 in head. Head width 3 in its length, profile nearly 
straight and similarly inclined. Snout conic, conspiciously 
protruded, long as wide and lower profile slightly concave. 
Eye rounded, high, well advanced; adipose eyelid completely 
covers eye. Mouth large, front above with rather wide median 
gepression. Maxillary straight, expansion 3 in eye, reaches 
mandibular joint or more backward than in E. ringens. Uniser- 
ial minute maxillary teeth, not united in front of mouth, 
mostly inclined forward and posterior little enlarged, ex- 
tend to tip. Similar erect mandibular teeth. No vomerine teeht. 
Narrow palatine area of minute asperities. Upper pharyngeal 
area with minute asperities. Tongue small knob in front of 
mandible, with few minute asperities above, though basi- 
brenchial sheft finely asperous above. Mandible tip forward 
to front eye edge. Nostrils little nearer eye than snout Lip. 
Interorbital broadly convex. Cheeks and opercle smooth, with- 
out venules on latter. Gillopening forward to hind pupil 
edge. Gill-rakers 24 - 28, lanceolate, slender, 1 1/3 in eye, 
little longer than filaments. Scales caducous, narrowly im- 
bricated, little enlargen on costal region, with 6 or 7 basal 
and 6 to 8 vertical striae, latter often irregularly or al- 
ternately incomplete. Dorsal origin midway between hind eye 
edge and caudal base. Anal inserted opposite last third of 
dorsal base or little nearer caudal base then pectoral 
origin. Caudel deeply forked. Pectoral 1 4/5 in head, reaches 
