S4$ 
small teeth in front and 3 large well spaced lateral ones of mostly falling op¬ 
posite eye; small depressible tooth each side of vomer and 2 or 3 small teeth 
on each palatine; barbel but slightly less than head, with but slightly swollen 
terminal bulb ending in single filament little longer than eye; interorbital 
4 l/5 in head from snout tip, low, scarcely convex# Gill rakers 0-8 weak 
short denticles, barely half of gill filaments, which about half of eye* 
Hounded lminous organ 3/5 of pupil, close below posterior portion of eye; 
lateral series of photophores 40 between pectoral and ventral, 7 between ventral 
and anal, then skin damaged; lower or ventral series 12 on isthmus, then 44 to 
ventral, 5 between ventral and anal, then 16 to caudal* 
D# 18, fin height 2 in total head length, origin about 1/2 eye diameter be- 
t 
hind anal origin; A. 21, fin height 1 4/5; caudal 2 l/4, apparently only with 
slight notch; least depth of caudal peduncle 1 3/5 in eye; pectoral 1 3/4 in 
total head length, rays 6; ventral 1, rays 6* 
Blackish, pale brown where skin has slipped and on most of head. Iris neu- 
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tral dusky# Fins whitish# 
Diagnosis, Characters contained largely in the genus# 
Type No# TJ.S*N,M# D# 5125# Nogas Island (l!#), S# 11 0 E., 24 miles 
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(N# 10 48 1 E# 121 48 1 30 )* Sulu Sea, vicinity of southern Panay# In 
411 fathoms# February 3, 1908. Length 108 mm# 
(For Mr. Frank J. Myers of Ventnor, New Jersey, an earnest student of the 
Rotataria, to whom I am indebted for assistance in securing ichthyological 
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material#) 
