410 
head. Head width 2 to 2¢ its length. Snout rather conic, com- 
pressed, width 1 1/6 to 14 its length. Eye elevated, nearly 
midway in head length. Mouth small, lower jaw -included, 
liaxillary to front nostril, or little beyond in smaller examples, 
though not to eye; expansion 2 to e+ in eye. Teeth small, rather 
obtuse, biserial above; lower biserial forward but uniserial 
along jaw sides; small patch of low vomerine teeth; np others, 
Mental barbels not extending beyond hind preopercle edge, 
Front nostril last 2/5 to 1/3 in snout; simple pore; hind one 
short vertical slit close before front eye edge, interorbital 
little convex, 
Rakers iv 314 or 15, i, lanceolate, 1¢ in filaments, 
which 11/6 to 1 2/5 in eye. Scales large, finely ctenoid, 
in parallel rows above lateral line and horizontal rows 
below; caudal scales basal, little smaller than those on trunk; 
3 rows (injured) of cheek scales; 1 or no scales behind depressed 
dpinous dorsal tip; basal striae 5 or 6; apical denticles 142 
to 187; circuli very fine; lateral line concurrent with peduncle 
base; tubes arborescent. Third dorsal spine 1 2/5 to 1% in head; 
first dorsal ray 24 to 2 2/5; second anal spine 2% to 3 1/10; 
first anal ray 2 2/5 to 26; caudal deeply forked, upper lobe 
little longer, 14; pectoral 1 1/3 to 13; ventral 1 1/3 to 
1 .2/5% 
