origin 82 to 102 predorsal scales; snout 4 te 4% in head 
from upper jaw tip; eye 5 te 5 2/3; maxillary 2 to 2 1/10; 
interorbital 7 1/3 to 7 3/5. 
Body elongate, deeper forward, well compressed; caudal 
peduncle length about ‘ 4/5 te 7/8 its least depth, which 
31 to 3 2/3 in total head length, Head width 1 7/8 te 2 
in its length, Snout length abovt 2/3 to 3/4 its width at eye 
front. Eye close to upper profile, hind edge about = eye- 
diameter before head center, Mouth large, lower jaw well 
protruded, “axillary extends back little beyond hind eye, 
Pair of well-spaced canines in front of each jaw, lower 
closer; bands of teeth in jaws, inner depressible and largest 
above in front ard below laterally; lower teeth form 3 rows 
en each side of jaw, outer row firm, ewcurved; narrows bands 
efef pointed teeth on vomer and palatines.: Nostrils together, 
Clese before eye, Interorbital scarcely convex, with concave 
depression in front. Hind preopercle edge serrate, lover 
serrae larger, nene on lower edge; median opercular spine 
lengest, most backward and variously cleser to upper or lower, 
Rakers II te IV, 4,12 or 13, IV to VI, lanceolate; filaments 
3/5 te 4/5 ef rakers, latter 1 3/5 te 21/10 in eye. Scales 
on head, breast, prepecteral and predorsal cycloid; body scales 
finely cteneid; apical denticles about 2o te 27; basal striae 
4 to 7; abeut 30 scales on cheek; enly upper half of maxillary 
scaled finely; fins all finely scaled basally; lateral line 
