160 
middle one in the vertical through the last VO or somewhat 
before, slightly higher than the anterior SAO, the uppermost 
near lateral line in the vertical through end of dorsal or 
origin of anal. Generally 6—8 supracaudal and 4—6 infra- 
caudal luminous patches. Length 60 mm. [After Brauer, not 
seen by us]. 
Habitat: Ombai straits. — Indic to 35°S.; Pacific from 
near Japan to 30°'S:; Atlantic 42° N. to7387 5: 
6. Myctophum punctatum Raf. 
Myctophum punctatum Rafinesque, Indice d’Ittiol. Siciliana, 1810, p. 56. 
Scopelus caninianus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XXII. 1849, p. 445. 
Scopelus Heideri Steindachner, Sitzber. Akad. Wien, LXXXIII. 1881, p. 401. 
Scopelus Miilleri Goode, Fish & fishery Industr. I. Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. 
Washington, 1884, Atlas, Pl. CCIII. 
Myctophum (Myctophum) punctatum Brauer, Deutsche Tiefsee-Exp. Tiefseefische, 
1906, p. 188. 
Myctophum punctatum Zugmayer, Exp. Monaco, XXXV. Poissons IgII, p. 26. 
Myctophum punctatum Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische, 1913, p. 86. 
D. 12—14; A. 18—20; P. 14—15; V. 8—g; L.1l. 4o—44. 
Elongate. Height 4—4'/,, head 3?/, to more than 4. Eye 
2'/,—23/,, about 3 times longer than snout, which has a 
median crest, is strongly curved, nearly vertically sloping 
down to the mouth. Mouth slightly oblique, hinderend of 
maxilla slightly dilated, 
surpassing posterior bor- 
der pof ,eye,, Oricinwon 
dorsal opposite to origin 
of ventrals, situated be- 
fore the middle of the 
length of the body, its 
end opposite to origin of 
anal, the end of which 
lies behind the vertical 
through the hindborder 
of the adipose fin. Pec- 
torals situated in the middle of the height of the body, sur- 
passing the origin of the ventrals, which extend to the anus. 
Scales cycloid, their surface minutely spinulous. Luminous 
organs: an antorbital on the posterior dorsal and on the 
anterior ventral border of the eye. 2 praeopercular organs, 
Fig. 62. Wyctophum punctatum Raf. (after Brauer). 
