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Snout rather long and distinctly depressed. Jaws equal. Gape 
of mouth oblique, nearly extending to vertical through hind- 
border of eye, superiorly bordered by intermaxillary, the 
maxillary, which is posteriorly much dilated, behind it. Origin 
of dorsal above that of ventrals, far before middle of body. 
Anal behind beginning of last '/,; of length, its posterior 
portion opposed to adipose fin. Long pectorals below middle 
of body, reaching to end of ventrals. Caudal forked. Small 
teeth in a band on jaws and vomer. Mucous membrane of 
mouth blackish. Luminous organs separate, on the head 
and between the mandibular branches. A luminous spot below 
each scale of the lower part of the body. Pseudobranchiae 
large. Gillrakers rather long and slender. Gillmembranes free 
from isthmus, slightly overlapping eachother at chin. Bran- 
chiostegals 8—g. 
I. Neoscopelus macrolepidotus Johns. 
Neoscopelus macrolepidotus Johnson, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1863, p. 44. 
Scopelus macrolepidotus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 414. 
Neoscopelus macrolepidotus Alcock, Descript. Catal. Indian Deep-Sea Fish. 1899, 
p- 164. 
Neoscopelus macrolepidotus Brauer, Deutsche Tiefsee-Exp. Tiefseefische 1906, p. 147. 
Neoscopelus macrolepidotus Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische 1913, p. 83. 
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Fig. 67. Meoscopelus macrolepidotus Johns. 
B. 8—g; D. 12—13; A. 11—13; P. 16—18; V. 8; L.L. 
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Height 4—4'/,, head 3—37/;, eye 4'/, to more than 5, shorter 
than snout. Origin of dorsal nearly midway between end of 
snout and end of adipose fin. Origin of anal half a head-length 
behind last dorsal rays. Pectorals much longer than head. 
Luminous organs: one on the lower portion of the praeopercle, 
a few small ones on the gillmembrane. On each side ventrally on 
the tongue 8—g smaller organs and behind them a large one, 
