Body elongately ellipsoid, compressed; least depth of 
caudal peduncle 1 2/5 to 1 2/3 its length or 2 2/5 to 24 
in total head length. Head width 2 te 21/10 its length, 
Snout conic, width 2/3 its length. Eye with hind pupil 
edge about midway in total head length. Mandible well 
protruded, Maxillary extends little beyond eye front but 
not quite to pupil; expansion 3 in eye. Teeth in bands, 
minute, simple, in jaws, on vomer and palatines, none on 
tongue. Nostrils small, together, about midway in snout. 
Interorbital broadly convex. Preopercle edge minutely and 
obscurely denticulate, gash just above corner; lower oper- 
cular spine string. Rakers 12t 24, lanceolate, filaments, 
5/6:of rakers which 2 in eye. Scales adherent; radiating 
basal striae 8 to 13; apical serrae 90 to 102; circuli very 
fine; cheek scales in 4 rows; lateral line complete, of 
small, simple tubes, cincurrent with dorsal profile, Fifth 
dorsal spine 1 4/5 to 1 7/8 in head; third anal spine 2 1/3 
to 2 9/10; pectoral 13; ventral 1 4/5 to 2; caudal slightly 
longe:s than heed, 
Color in alcohol dull brown generally, paler below and 
washed most everywhere. with siivery. Fins and iris dull 
brown. Hind caudal edge with trace of dusky. Length 77 to 
258 mm, Thirty-nine examples from Filo,Mani, Oahu, Hawaiian 
Islands, Wake Island and Fiji. The smaller examples vary 
