soft dorsal origin and 8 below to spinous anal origin; predor- 
scal scales about 42; snout 3 3/5 in head; eye 44; maxillary 
24, interorbital 4. 
Bedy elengately ellipsoid, well compressed; least depth 
of caudal peduncle about 14 its length or 3 4/5 in head; Head 
width 2£ its length. Snout convex, length 5/6 its width, Eye 
lerge, hind pupil edge slightly advanced from head center, Mouth 
small, low, lower jaw well included, Lips narrow, finely pap- 
illose. Maxillary to pupil; expansion 2$ in eye. Bands of 
small coule teeth in jaws, outer row little enlarged; lower teeth 
smaller, Hach side of snout in front with short marginal slit 
at front preorbital edge; chin with 4 pores; inner hehaay of 
mandibular rami anteriorly each with 4 short even barbels, Hind 
nostril twice size of front one, which about midway in snout 
length, iInterorbital broadly convex, Preopercle edge denticu- 
late behind, dénticles larger below te corner, where 2 largest, 
Sidely separate, upper longer and broad lower directed downward 
and backward; suprascapula membraneous, scaly, 
Rakers 77112, III, lanceolate, 1# in filaments, which 
21/5 in eye. scales weakly ctenoid, in backward inclined 
longitudinal rows, smaller on chest, each side of breast, pre- 
pectoral, predorsal, narrowly on soft dorsal and anal basally, 
over most of caudal and bases of paired fins; radiating basal 
striae ll or 12; apical denticles 33 to 39; circuli fine; cheek 
with 12 rows of scales, first 4 or 5 rows enlarged; lateral line 
