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No.6, %rch 10, 1930, p.67, pl.4, fig.2. N. 25 50 * W. 76 55 *, 1000 
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meters, Bahamas; N. 23 36 * W. 51 17 *, 65 meters. 
Depth 7 l/2; head 5. Snout 3 l/4 in head; eye 10, 3 in snout; maxillary 
tf 
extends 4 3/4 eye diameters behind eye* length 1 l/8 in head; interorbital 
moderately low* 
Postoeular luminous organ equals 1 l/5 eye diameters, well separated from 
eye* Lateral series of photophores 13 or 14 between gill opening and ventral, 
8 or 9 between ventral and anal; ventral series 5 between isthmus and pectoral, 
14 between pectoral and ventral, 8 or 9 between ventral and anal; ventral series 
5 between isthmus and pectoral, 14 between pectoral and ventral, 11 between 
ventral and anal, last 3 or 4 close together, 5 between anal and caudal* 
D* 14, fin height 2 l/4 in head; A. 15, fin height 2 l/lO; caudal 2 2/3, 
forked, lower lobe longer; least depth of(^judal pedunqel/ 6 3/4; pectoral 1 2/5, 
rays 3-4; ventral rays 19 or 20, length 4 1/2 in body without caudal, origin 
little nearer caudal base than snout end* 
Length 72 ram* to caudal base* (Regan and Trewavas*) 
Caribbean Sea* 
Bathophil us digitatu s (Welsh) 
Dactylostomias digitatus WELSH, Proc* TJ*S*Nat* Mus*, vol*62, art*3, 1923, p.9, 
fig.9. Station 10171, 255 miles west from Bermuda, 75 meters. 
Bathophilu s digitatus PANE, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr, Collection, vol.3, art.2, 
Dec.30, 1927, p.90 (copied). - REGAN and TREWAVAS, Danish Dana Exped. Ocean¬ 
ogr. Rep., i-o.S, March 10, 1930, p.67, fig.45 (copied). 
Depth 7 7/8; head 3 2/3, width 2 l/5. Snout 2 l/3 in head; eye 5 l/4, 2 l/j 
