254 
each premaxillary and mandibular ramus, longest near front oz jaw correspond to 
t 
pair slightly shorter in mandible; single slender tooth on extreme outer angle 
of vomer each side and similar tooth rear middle of each palatine; pair of teeth 
on tongue; barbel inserted on mandible before eye, length 1 2/3 in combined head 
and body to caudal base, expanded subterminally; interorbital 5, little convex* 
Gill rakers 3+9, short, slender denticles, little longer than gill filaments 
or 2 in eye 
Four small photophores on head; 1 short curved bar on hind edge of orbit, 
others small round spots as 1 on subopercle, 1 near maxillary tip, 1 near mandibu* 
lar angle* Series of photophores on branchiostegal membranes, 1 for each inter- 
radial space, lateral row of photophores well below middle of sides, 63 extend 
from head to opposite front of anal; lower or ventral row 42 before ventral, 
16 between ventral and anal, 8 opposite anal and 6 on caudal peduncle# 
• ** 
B. 16, first ray 2 1/8 in total head length; A. 20, fin height 2 1/10; 
caudal damaged, small, forked; pectoral 2 1/4, rays 7; ventral 1 4/5, rays 8; 
least deotli of caudal peduncle equals eye. 
Blackish. Barbel black on basal half, terminally pale, Iris neutral black* 
Fins whitish* 
Facific Ocean. 
i 
52056 IT.S.U.M* 
Bear ITiihau, Hawaiian Islands, ilbatross Collection 4177. 
Length 74 m. Type* 
Leptostomias l eptobol ns Regan and Tremvas 
Leptostomi' s leptobolus IMG.Ill and TREITAYAS, Danish Dana Exped. Oceanogr• wep*. 
I;o*6, arch 10, I960, p*60, fig*40 - b 
of barbels). Caribbean Tea c T 
.Dominica K. 15 ° Off » .. 61 0 31 300 meters; east of Barbuda IT, 17 0 41 
