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Head 5.24 (5.62 in length), compressed, acute, the upper and 
lower profiles equally oblique; body long, compressed throughout its 
length; greatest depth at pectoral, 7.86; eye 6.9 in head, circular, 
lateral; snout 4.93, pointed; mouth large, lower jaw projecting; 
maxillary 1.53, extending about 14 eye diameters beyond vertical 
from posterior margin of eye, broadened posteriorly; jaws with teeth 
of moderate size; a few small teeth on vomer; palatines toothless; 
pseudobranchiae absent; interorbital 5.72, convex; body covered 
with large cycloid scales, 65 in the lateral line. 
Light organs as follows: On the head, one small suborbital; two 
small black organs on cheek, one above end of maxilliary, the other 
midway between this and center of pupil; three opercular organs, two 
on the anterior border of preopercle, the upper on a level with center 
of eye, the lower at angle of mouth, the third on subopercle shghtly 
above level of pectoral base; a small organ on mandible below and 
slightly in advance of suborbital; distal end of mandible glandular and 
apparently luminous; on body, three rows, the upper on lateral line, 
of 66 small, round photophores, the last of the series on base of caudal 
rays; second row slightly above level of pectoral, of 48 photophores, 
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F1Gc. 1.—DIPLOPHOS MOOREI, NEW SPECIES. 
2 before pectoral, 18 between pectoral and ventral, 13 between ven- 
tral and anal, and 15 extending along base of anal to above 23d ray; 
lower row, on branchiostegals 11, on isthmus to pectoral 13, pectoral 
to ventral 17, ventral to anal 12, anal to caudal 29, no gap in this 
series on caudal peduncle. 
Dorsal entirely in advance of anal, its origin in the middle of body 
length; distance from tip of snout to origin of dorsal 2, to anal 1.74, 
to ventral 2.41. 
Color in alcohol, head and body clove-brown, the scales edged with 
darker, cheeks and maxilliary pale, punctulated with brown, mandi- 
ble yellow at tip; dorsal and anal rays slightly pigmented at base; 
caudal finely punctulated with brown; ventrals and pectorals unpig- 
mented. 
Type.—Cat. No. 84293, U.S.N.M., 39 mm. long, taken in a townet 
at Station 10202, in the Gulf Stream, 5 miles west from Gun Cay, at a 
depth of from 75 to 0 meters. 
(moorei, named for Dr. H. F. Moore, Deputy Commissioner 
United States Bureau of Fisheries.) 
