5 more on latter; 22 scales above latersel line to spinous 
davent spine base, 29 below to spinous anal origin; 86 preée- 
dorsal scales; snout 5 2/5 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 
5 2/5; maxillary 2 1/6; interorbital 8. 
Body elongately ovoid, deepest forward, well compressed; 
caudal peduncle length about 5/6 its least depth, which 3% 
in total head length. Head width 2 2/5 its length, Snout 
length 3/5 its width. Eye close te upper profile, its hind 
edge about half an eye-diameter in advance of center in head 
length. Mouth large, lower jaw protruding. Maxillary extends 
back little beyond hind eye edge; expansion 1 3/5 in eye. fair 
of well-spaced canines in front of each jaw, xBRrerxekoxarxin 
frankxefxeasaxjanx lower closer; bands of teeth in jaws, inner 
depressible, several front inner upper ones elongated; lower 
teeth form 2 rews on each side of jaw; moderate conic teeth 
in bands on vomer and palatines. Nestrils together, close 
before eye. Interorbital slightly convex. Hind preopercle 
edge €enticulate, with serrae coarser until angle, none 
below; median opercular spine most backward, closer to lower, 
Rakers v, 3+-10, vi, lanceolate, though robust; filaments ? 
of rakers, which 21/10 in eye. %cales cycloid; basal striae 
4 or 5S; circuli moderate and apically breken as very hetere- 
geneous short sections; 43 scales on cheek; about upper fourth 
ef maxillary only finely scaled; .lateral line concurrent with 
dorsal profile, slopes until midway on caudal base, 
