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In .ALTSIS 0? SPECIES 
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ye 4 to 5 In head ; D. 16 
Eye 5 4/5 in head; D. 18 to 20 
lucidimanus. 
plionterus. 
Chirostomias lucid imams Beebe 
Chir ostomias luc 5 . d inaru s B ITDD , Zoologica • r .Zool. Soc., vol.13, ho.4, arch 
1932, p * 52 • Ten miles south of ITonsuch, Bermuda, 500 fathoms. 
Depth 6 l/5; head 6. Snout 3 3/4 In head; eye 5 4/5; 2 large front upper 
canines, then 5 moderate wide spaced teeth outside, in line with second canine 
10 even normal jaw teeth; barbel long as head, elongate blue black bulb some¬ 
what compressed, terminal part projects as 2 large tubular divisions each tipped 
with pair of sharp tcothlike structures opening toward one another with voner- 
most with few very short tubercles at tip and lower tipped with long, beaded, 
luminous tentacle while from ventral side 5 long tentacles spring from single 
base; dorsal surface of bulb with number of isolated luminous spots r ich con- 
* 
solidate into thick luminous white comb, smooth and rounded, with slender term¬ 
inal filament; luminous tissue dies out on surface of mid bulb of scattered 
spots and dots. 
lateral ohotonhores 23 between ; ill opening and ventral, 19 between ventral 
and anal of which 7 above anal; ventral series 9 between isthmus md pectoral 
£5 between pectoral and ventral, 19 between ventral and ansi with 6 above anal, 
10 from anal to caudal. 
• 16; A. 22; pectoral rays 6; ventral rays 7. 
Black, length 725 mm. without caudal. (Beebe.) 
Bermuda. 
