origin and 8 below to spinous anal origin; 7 predorsal scales; 
snout 2 3/4 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 5 3/4; maxillery 
4 1/8; interorbital 4. 
Body elongately fusiform, strongly compressed; caudal 
peduncle length 3/4 its least depth, whith 2.2/5 in total 
head length. Head width 21/5 its length. Snout compressed, 
width at eyes 11/3 its length. No posterior canines. Inter- 
orbital convex, Rakers 8+12? short rudimentary points, 3 in 
filements, which 11/6 in eye. Head naked, except cluster of 
5 scales just above opercle; predorsal and breast scales little 
smaller than others; smaller body scales crowded along bases of 
dorsals and anals and caudal scaly basally about 2/5 its extent, 
smaller scales crowded above and below marginally much further 
back; basal radiating striae 49 te 52, apical Se or 33, all 
connected by broed median reticulatédarea; circuli very fine, 
fewer and obsolete apically; tubes in lateral line largely 
arborescent, with 3 to 8 branchlets, 
General color in alcohol whitish, especially clear ahove 
pectoral and behind gill-opening. Broad deep brown blotch on 
head behind eye low as eye and tren slopes back to embrace 
upper naif of operculer flap, On trunk same color extends back 
from predorsal to behind pectoral base, not below it. Vertical 
wedge of dusky-brown on back just efter middle of depressed pec- 
‘toral, extending above to edge of spinous dorsal from efter fourth 
to seventh spines, nelow narrowed a& point just before anal. 
