dal peduncle large, well compressed, least depth 1; to 
1 3/5 its length or 1 2/5 to 1.7/8 in head. Head width 
1 1/8 to 11/5 its length. Snout long, depressed. Eye 
very small, front edge about midway in head length, lit- 
tle advanced in young, diameter 4 in interorbital. Mouth 
wide, gape very short. Upper jaw protrudes. Lips thick, 
fleshy, finely papillose. kach jaw with broad bands of 
fine lanceolate teeth. Upper inner buccal fold much broad- 
er than lower. Upper maxillary barbel = to pectoral origin, 
lower 2/3; nasal barbel extends back about an eye-diameter 
beyond eye. Hind nostril about an eye-diameter behind front 
one, or about midway in snout length. Along preopercle edge 
4 rows of spines, hind ones twice length of others. Opercular 
spines similar, fewer, and of much less extent. Gill-rakers 
2- 5, short fleshy rounded tubercles, much shorter than 
filaments. Dorsal origin little nearer depressed pectoral 
tip than caudal base, to midway in young. Anal inserted 
Close behind dorsal base. Caudal slightly concave behi3 
. expands truncate. Pectoral small, low, outermost ray ending 
in short filament. Ventral inserted before dorsal or; 
reaches vent or = to anal, shorter in young. 
Color in alcohol: russet-brown generally, marked 
everywhere with round dark or dusky spots, large as or lit- 
tle larger than eye, though pattern with rather even speck- 
ed appearance. Spots especially smaller on upper surface of 
head. Fins with similar spots to those on body, only more 
obscure. Four examples, 133 to 240 mm, from Peru, of which 
