12; 



by a series of 3 blunt tubercles the last and middle of which 

 are more approximated than the middle and the anterior. 

 Mandible slightly prominent, with a ventrally directed spine 

 at the symphysis. Origin of dorsal and anal opposite, far be- 

 hind ventrals, which are situated slightly before middle of 

 length and reach beyond the anus, which is situated nearer 

 to ventrals than to anal. End of pectorals far distant from 

 ventrals, in the middle of the body or slightly before it. 

 Caudal deeply forked. Scales large, thin, 4 between anal and 

 dorsal. Intermaxilla with 8 10 unequal teeth, one or two of 

 which are enlarged. About 90 100 maxillary teeth, the ante- 

 rior third of which smaller and vertically inserted. The pos- 

 terior obliquely directed forward, generally increasing in size 

 from before backward, intermingled with about 10 12 larger 

 ones. In the anterior part of the mandibula about 12 sube- 

 quel teeth between which 2 much larger ones, one behind 

 the 3 or 4 most anterior ones the second nearly at the end 

 of the row, behind them a continuous series of about 100 

 gradually increasing in size from before backward; 2 3 on 

 the palatines, 4 6 on the pterygoids. Luminous organs small: 

 A black suborbital one, 2 operculars above each other, the 

 dorsal on the level of the eye, the ventral on the level of 

 the maxilla, 9 10 between branchiostegal rays. 13 in a ven- 

 tral series between isthmus and ventrals, 5 between ventrals 

 and anal, the 2 anterior of which before anus, 14 15 between 

 origin of anal and caudal, the 3 4 hindermost behind anal. 

 A lateral series of 8 9 between operculum and the vertical 

 through anus, the one or two hindermost more distant. Uni- 

 form brownish or blackish brown. Length 60 mm. 



Habitat: Floras Sea (538 M.)!; Banda Sea (1000-2474 M.)! ; 

 Timor Sea (421 M.)!; Manipa strait (1556 M.)!; Molucco pas- 

 sage (1500 M.)!; Celebes Sea (700 2291 M.)!; Halmahera Sea 

 (1000 M.)!. Indie, to South of Kerguelen islands. Pacific 

 between Behring Sea and 50 S. Atlantic between Davis 

 Strait and 52. 39' S. 



3. Cyclothone acclinidens Garm. 



Cyclothone acclinidens Garman, Albatross Exp. XXVI. Fishes, 1899, p. 246. 

 Cycle f hone acclinidens Brauer, Deutsche Tiefsee-Exp. TIefseefische, 1906, p. 85. 

 Cyclothone acclinidens Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische, 1913, p. 19. 



B. 14; D. 1314; A. 18 20; P. 10; V. 67. 



