6; head width 11/5 to 11/4. Hind eye edge slightly advanced 
from center in head length. Maxillary reaches eye center, Jaws 
even. Teeth in broad bands in jaws, narrow bands on vomer and 
palatines. Interorbital slightoy concave or depressed, taken 
14. 0r Itl,: vier Vil, lew, broad, asperous tubercles, greatly 
shorter than filaments, which 1 2/8 to 2 in eye. Body covered 
with fine asperities or simple denticles, smaller behind and ab- 
sent from caudal peduncle. Vent nearer caudal base than snout 
tip by about 2 eye-diameters. Color in alcohol largely derk 
brown, obscurely mottled or speckled with darker. Fins brown, 
bases and lower pectoral rays finely specked with darker, Length 
135 to 210 mm, Two from the Columbia River, Oregon, Poitaitroe, 
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Head 2 3/5 to 2 2/3; depth 6; D. VII or VIII -18:; A. se 15; 
snout 3 4/5 to 4 in head; eye 8 1/10 to 9 1/8; maxillary 2 to 2/10; 
bony interorbital 5 1/3 to 5 1/2, slightly concave; head width 1 2/5 
to 1 2/3. Snout length’ 3/5 to 2/3 its width, Lower jaw little 
shorter than upper. Preopercle with strong spine, armed with 3 
spines projecting upward, Rakers 3-413 lew asperous tubercles; 
filaments 1 1/4 in eye, Color in alcohol brown above, Head more 
er less mottled darker. Upper lid of eye deep brown,w ith pale 
blotch. Inside gill-opening, prepectoral, postpectorai and axillary 
regions continued as band to caudal base, just below middle, brassy 
or gilt. Vertical fins dull yellowish basally, otherwise brown, 
