are slender canines and arrow-shaped at tip. 12 luminous 

 organs in ventral series between isthmus and pectorals, 18 

 between pectorals and ventrals, 22 between ventrals and anal. 

 10 above anal, the last 2 are smaller and situated higher 

 upward, 4 behind anal. 38 organs in the lateral series. Sides 

 of head and body greyish silvery, brownish above and below. 

 Fins translucent. Length 75 mm. 



Habitat: Timor sea (421 M.)!. -- Pacific near Hawaian 

 islands (470 2232 M.). 



2. Astronesthes chrysophekadion (Blkr.). 



Stomianodon chrysophekadion Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXII. 1849, Bijdr. Ichth. 



Bali, p. 10. 

 Astronesthes chrysophekadion Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 27. 1875, p. 150. 



B. 14; D. 12; A. 20; P. 6; V. 7. 



Height 8 9, head about 5, eye about 3, about twice as 

 long as snout. Barbel a little shorter than head. Pectorals 

 and ventrals about half of head, the last scarcely nearer to 

 anal than to head. Origin of dorsal somewhat behind inser- 

 tion of ventrals, a little shorter but higher than anal. 6 une- 

 qually long, arrow-shaped teeth in intermaxilla, the 2 anterior 

 very long and curved. Maxilla with about 20 subequal small, 

 close-set teeth. Mandible with 10 12 long curved unequal 

 teeth, the anterior ones the longer and arrow-shaped. About 

 50 luminous organs in the lateral series. Blackish or brown, 

 opercle and sides lighter. Length of single specimen known 

 115 mm. [After Bleeker; not seen by us]. 



Habitat: Bali. 



6. Malacosteus Ayres. 



(AYRES, Journ. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1849, p. 53). 



Elongate, compressed, tapering behind head, scaleless. Head 

 compressed, snout very short. Gape of mouth extremely wide. 

 Jaws extending beyond the root of the pectorals. Opercle 

 very narrow and membranaceous. No barbel at chin. Pectorals 

 rather long and narrow (or rudimentary?). Ventrals behind 

 middle of body. Dorsal and anal opposite and nearly equal, 

 at no great distance from the caudal. Unequal, pointed teeth 

 in a single series in both jaws and in pairs on the tongue. 



