3 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 
same to soft dorsal origin, 10 below to spinous dnal: origin; 
about 30 predorsal scales; snout 3¢ in head; eye 34; maxil- 
lary 22; interorbital 3. 
Body elongately fusiform; least depth of caudal peduncle 
14 its length or 2 2/5 in head, Head width half its length, 
Snout conic, length 7/8 its width. Eye é@hevated, hind pupil 
edge midway in head length. Mouth slightly inclined, jaws equal. 
Maxillary to eye, largely concealed by preorbital; expansion 
3% in eye. Bands of small simple conic teeth in upper jaw and 
front of lower, and form single row of simple larger conic ones 
behind in latter; pair of close-set canines in front above and 
pair of wide-set divergent canines below anteriorly; no other 
teeth, Tongue small, free, far back. Front nostril about 
last third in snout, hind one larger and close behind. Inter- 
orbital broadly convex. Hind preopercle edge with obsolete 
minute serrae, lower edge entire. Opercle with rather short 
broad spine, 
Rakers iv-+vii low tubercles; filaments 3 in eye, »cales 
finely etenoid; basal strise 93; apical denticles 95 to 1003 
circuli very fine; 5 rows of scales on cheek to preopercle 
ridge; large suprascapula scale, edge entirely finely pectinate, 
7/8 of eye; muzzle largely naked, with many pores in preorbital 
and sides of mandible; lateral line concurrent with dorsal profile, 
