Hepsetia insularum (Jordan and Evermann). 
Head 3 2/3:to 4; depth 42 to 5; D. IV or VI - Il, 10, 
if A. 22. to Or ic, 1;-/ecales 45 or 46 in median lateral 
series from shoulder to caudal base and 5 or 6 more on lat- 
ter; 6 or 7 scales transversely at soft dorsal origin; 17 
to 19 predorsal scales to head; snout 3s td@ 52 in head: eve 
22 to 22: maxillary 2 1/5 to 2; interorbital 2 2/5 to 3. 
Bedy compressed, deepest at ventral origin; caudal 
peduncle slender, compressed, least depth 1; to 2 in its 
length or 2: to 3¢ in head. Head width 1 9/10 to 2 in 
its length. Snout obtuse, shorter than eye, length about 
2/3 to = its width. Eye large, impinging on upper profile, 
hind pupil edge about midway in head length. Mouth moderate, 
jaws even. Maxillary partly concealed by narrow preorbital, 
reaches beyond front eye edge, though not quite to pupil. 
Teeth minute, in narrow bands in jaws. Muzzle cavernous. 
Interorbital level. Gill-rakers 7 - 25, lanceolate, slender, 
slightly longer than filaments or about 2 in eye. Scales 
narrowly imbricated, exposed edges mostly entire, with 1 to 
5 basal points and about 12 to 30 basal parallel circull. 
Spinous dorsal inserted about midway between eye center and 
Caudal base, little more forward in young; first spine 2 1/5 
to 2 in head. Soft dorsal origin at first third or 2/5 be- 
tween spinous dorsal origin and caudal base; first branched 
ray 2 to 21/5 in head. Anal inserted well before soft dor- 
sal origin or about midway between lowest pectoral ray base 
and caudal base or midway between pectoral origin and caudal 
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base in young; first branched ray 1 7/8 to 2 1/8 in heed. 
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