dorsal scales; snout 3 1/8 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 
3 3/5; maxillary 3; interorbital 3, 
Body elongately ovoid, well compressed, deepest at 
spinous dorsal origin; caudal peduncle length 3/4 its least 
depth, which 2 1/8 in total head length, Head width 1 3/4 
its length. Snout ark width 3/4 its length. Eye small, 
elevated, hind edge midway in head (from snout to tip). 
Mouth small, broad, lower jaw little protruding. Lips rather 
thick, narrow, Maxillary not quite to eye; expansion 2 in 
eye. Teeth strong, uniserial, little compressed, conic, 
largest, forward in each jaw, Nostrils simple pores; from 
one smaller, about first third in snout; hind one midway in 
snout. Interorbital convex. Preorbital edge denticulate; 
smaller denticles on hind preopercle edge; opercle, suboper- 
cle and interopercle each, with radiating striae behind, end- 
ing in oervinel denticles, 
Rakers 67-12; lanceolete, 4/5 of filaments, which about 
2 in eye. Scales in horizontal rows, converge toward caudal 
peduncle, mostiy uniform on head and trunk; muzzle, front 
half of interorbital, suborbitals, preopercle flange naked; 
© rows of cheek scales; bases of fins scaly; scales with 6 
marginal striae; apical denticles 51 to 60; circuli moderately 
fine; upper arch of lateral line more convex forward than 
upper profile, then parallel with latter, ends 5 scales from 
caudal peduncle; tubes in lateral line large, simple. second 
