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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 1 J 3 f 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 9. 



i. Neoscopelus macrolepidotus Johns. 



Neoscopelus macrolepidotus Johnson, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1863, p. 44. 



Scopehis 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. 



Fig. 67. Neoscopelus macrolepidotus Johns. 



B. 89; D. 1213; A. 1113; p - 16 18; V. 8; L.I. 

 3031; L.tr. 3 / 5 . 



Height 4 4 1 / 2 , head 3 3 2 / 5 , eye 4*/ 2 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 9 smaller organs and behind them a large one, 



