319 
and caudal# 
D* 26 ; A* 38; pectoral rays 3# 
Length 106 mm# without caudal* (Regan and 'frewavas.) 
Caribbean Sea* 
Eustomias micraster^ (Parr) 
Eustomias bibulbosus subspecies m icras ter PARE, Bull* Bingham Oceanor. Collec- 
tion, vol.3, art.2, Dec.30, 1927, pp.70, 72. 5T. 24 ° 51 W. 76 ° 38 ', 7000 
feet. 
^^omias bibulbosus micraster PARR, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, vol.3, 
art.2, Dec.30, 1927, fig.41. 
Eustomias micraster REGAN and THEWAVAS, Danish Dana Sped* Oceanogr* Rep., Ko*6, 
March 10, 1930, p*84, fig.62 (end of barbel) (Caribbean Sea off Dominica 
N. 15 ° 8 ' W. 61 0 31 •; Caribbean Sea off St. Croix N. 17 ° 58. 5 ' W. 
64 41 ’ and N. 17 0 54 ' W. 64 54 1 ; north of Virgin Islands IJ. 19 ° 
01 * W. 65 0 23 *; N. 17 ° 43 1 W. 64 ° 56 ’j 300 to 1000 meters) 
Depth 10 to 12; head 7 to 8 l/2. Eye 5 in head; barbel l/2 to nearly long 
as fish, axis unpigmented* 2 bulbs, sometimes subequal, terminal usually smaller, 
interspace 2 to 4 times diameter of larger* terminal appendage tapering, when 
complete once to nearly twice long as head, 4 to 8 branches near base and rarely 
others further along* all branches short filaments, generally with terminal 
swelling and sometimes with series* interorbital 7 to 8 in head* 
Lateral photophores 30 to 33 between gill opening and ventral, 17 to 19 be- 
•• 
tween ventral and anal* ventral series 7 between isthmus and pectoral, 30 to 32 
between pector^ and ventral, 17 to 19 between ventral and anal, 18 to 21 between 
