to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 5 scales above lateral 
line to spinous dorsal origin, 10 below to spinous anal origin; 
54 predorsal scales; snout 3 1/2 in head; eye 5 7/8; maxillary 
5; interorbital 3 1/2, 
Head width 2 4/5 its length, Snout conic, long as wide, 
Lips broad, fleshy, not sharply defined, upper as thick as 
rounded lobe each side behind and both with fine cencesled 
longitudinal striae. Interorbital convex. Preopercle edge con- 
cealed by squamation, Rakers about 10 short rudimentary points; 
filaments 1 1/8 in eye. Squamation compact; head closely scaled, 
except first third of snout, preorbital and mandible to rictus; 
scales on lower surface fine and still finer over entire upper 
surface of head, also small scales on front cuborbitak and around 
eye; vertical fins all largely and closely scaled, only edges 
free, those on dorsal and anal lanceolate; basal radiating striae 
58; body scales elongate, apical radisting striae 11, complete, 
radiating from scale center, and 12 accessory marginals. 
Color in alcohol dark umber-brown, each row of scales with 
dark line or streak longitudinally at junctures of scales, also 
extending horizontally an head and others on vertical fins, 
Caudal brown, with broad submarginal dusky band sub-terminally. 
Ventral brownish, longest rays dusky. Length 127 mm. Sainoa, 
