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in snout, 1 l/4 in interorbitalj maxillary reaches 2 eye diameters behind eye, 
length 1 l/4 in head from snout tip; first pair of upper teeth placed high and p 
protrude through skin of snout, second pair longest or 3/4 of eye, 7 smaller 
pairs of canines followed by 16 small recumbent teeth; first pair of lower 
teeth small, exserted and divergent, second pair longest and followed by 8 
smaller pairs of canines; 4 or 5 teeth on each palatine; tongue with 2 groups 
of recurred teeth; barbel long, at least reaches anal, simple, filamentous; 
interorbital 3, moderately low, convex• No gill rakers; gill filaments short# 
Large ovate luminous organ below and behind eye and smaller one in front on 
upper maxillary edge# Two rows of elongated photophores on each side of body 
ventrally, 15 in upper row from pectoral to ventral# 
D. 14, fin height 1 2/5 in head; A# 15, fin height 1 l/2; caudal 1 2/5, 
forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 1 l/4 in eye; pectoral 1 in head, rays 
filamentous, in 2 groups with 3 in first and 4 in second; ventral 3 in combined 
head and body to caudal base, rays hair like# 
Head and body metallic bronze, thickly sprinkled with minute white glandular 
bodies with blackish edges# Fins white, except swollen black bases of posterior 
pectoral rays# 
Western Atlantic# 
84291 IT#S#N#M# 225 miles west of Bermuda# Grampu s (Bache) Station 
10171* In 75 meters# February 2, 1914* Length 35 mm# Type of Dactylos- I 
tomias digitatus # I 
B athophilu s metallious (Welsh) I 
Tri ohos to mias meta llious WELSH, ^roc. U.S.Nat. Mtfeu, vol#62, art#3, 1923, p#ll, I 
fig#10# Station 10161, 115 miles east from Cape Iiatteras; 
