Body robust, stout, compressed. Head width 2 to 2 1/5 
in its total length. Snout convex, length 3/4 its width, 
Eye impinging on upper profile, hind pupil edge slightly 
advanced from middle in head length, Jaws nearly even or 
lower only very slightly advanced. Maxillary to hind pu- 
pil edge, to eye center in young; expansion ot to 22 in 
eye. Bands of villiform teeth in jaws and on vomer, none 
on palatines or tongue. Interorbital convex. Preopercle 
edge and ridge, also infraorbital edge, finely, though 
rather unevenly, serrate. Rakers II, 2 to 4 8vi, or 17, lan- 
ceolate, about 2 in eye; filaments 2/3 of rakers. Scales | 
large, adherent; basal striae 14 to 19; apical serrae very 
fine, about 100 to 122; circuli mocarate; 2 rows of scales 
on cheek; each tube in lateral line, simple, crenulated 
area above and below medianly on scale, Suprascapula entire, 
Third dorsal spine 1 7/8 to 2 in head; first dorsal ray 1 4/5 
to 1 7/8; second anal spine 3 to 3 3/5; caudal 1 4/5: pecto- 
ral 1 3/5 to 1 7/8; ventral! 1 3/4 to 2 1/84 
Color in alcohol olive-brown, Obsolete dusky band 
from snout tip to upper caudal lobe base, where ending in 
large blackish blotch. Lower surface little paler. Spi- 
mous dorsal largely blackish, pale basally and soft dorsal 
Similar, Caudal mostly pale, somewhat Gusky basally, Other 
fins all pale. Soft dorsal and anal each with dusky bar 
along its base to spinous dorsal, with dusky streak from 
