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ventrals; terminally expanded and compressed, with elongate subterminal dark of 
brown body, also smaller whitish body, ovioid, from which slender terminal fila¬ 
ment arises; inter orbital 2 3/4 to 3, convex, -ill rakers as about 12 rather 
irregular, short, minute spines on lower branch of first r^rch. 
Luminous organ on cheek along tipper maxillary edge and below and behind eye 
1 l/5 to 2 times eye diameter; conspicuous photophore about center of preopercle 
flange; upper laterals between pectoral ventral 27, between ventral and anal 10 
or 11 and 2 or 3 more continued back above front of anal base; lower laterals 
38 to ventral, of which 8 from middle of isthmus and 2 before pectoral origin, 9 
from Ventral to anal origin, 14 from anal origin to caudal base. 
D. 14 or 15, fin height 2 3/s to 3 in total head length; A. 19, fin height 
3 to 3 7/8; caudal 2 to 2 l/2, forked, lobes pointed; least depth of caudal 
peduncjgdj 1 to 1 l/4 in eye; pectoral 2 l/3 to 2 2/5 in total head length; ven¬ 
tral 1 i/s. 
Dark brown, nearly uniform. Iris gray. Fins all pale or whitish. 
Indian Ocean, Caribbean Sea. Well figured by Brauer though both of my ex¬ 
amples with shorter barbel. He also shows the lower caudal lobe larger and 
longer. Though in both my examples the ends of the caudal lobes are broken off 
they show the bases of the lower caudal rays much stronger or 1 rger than the 
upper. 
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2632. D. 5502. Macabalan Point Light (Mindanao), S. 35 E., 8. 2 
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miles (N. 8 ° 37 1 37 E. 124 ° 35), vicinity northern Mindanao. In 214 
fathoms. August 4, 1909. Length 245 mm. 
•2100. D. 5227. Point Origan, S. 44 ° E., 13. 30 miles (N. 12 ° 53 1 
45 " E. 121 ° 52 » 30 "), east of Mindoro. In 322 fathoms. May 5, 1908. 
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Length 195 mm. 
