355 
starting basally with rather large white body and ending xvlth larger incurving 
axis; beyond white bulb and end of axis; beyond white bulb md end of axis 
an expansion without filament. 
p 
ostocular luminous organ little longer than eye# Lateral photophores 26 
between gill opening and vent, 13 between ventral and anal# Ventral series 8 4 
2 between isthmus and pectoral, 26 or 27 between pectoral and ventral, 13 or 14 
between ventral and anal, 9 to 11 betyreen anal and caudal# 
L# 13 to 16; A# 16 to 17; pectoral rays 5; ventral rays 7# 
Length 25 mm# without caudal* (Regan and Trewavas#; 
Atlantic# 
Melanostomias albibarba Regan and Trewavas 
Melanostomias albibarba REGAN and TREWAVAS, Danish Dana Exped* Oceanogr# Rep#, 
Uo#6, March 10, 1930, p#114, fig 109 -b, (end of barbel)# Caribbean Sea 
west of St. Lucia II. 13 ° 47 ’ W# 61 ° 26 f , 2500 to 3000 meters; off Dom- 
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inica N# 15 8 1 W# 61 31 T , 300 meters; Caribbean Sea off St. Croix N# 
17 ° 58. 5 » W. 64 ° 41 ' and N. 17 ° 54 * W. 64 ° 54 300 meters; N. 17 ° 
43 T W. 64 56 1 , 100 to 6oo meters; 1. 34 40 ’ <• 33 16 ’, 1000 meters 
N. 13 ° y’ W. 57 0 20 4000 meters; N. 29 ° 24 » W. 48 ° 8 », 110 meters. 
Melanostomias melanops (not BRAIIER) PARR, Bull# Bingham Oceanogr# Collection, 
o e 
vol.3, art.2, Dec.30, 1927, p.42, fig.24 (end of barbel) (N. 24 W. 77 
17 1 , 6000 feet; N. 23 ° 58 ' W. 77 ° 26 *, 7000 feet). 
Depth 7 1/2 to 10; head 6 to 7 l/2. "^ye 5 to 6 in head; barbel 2 to 2 l/2 
in head, unpigmented except at base, sometimes with black dots along hind surface; 
near end with translucent and compressed expansions, that on anterior side of 
