359 
Depth 9 to 10; head 6 2/3 to 7 l/2. Eye 6 to 7 in head; barbel 1 2/3, 
terminal half swollen, ending in translucent compressed expansion containing 
large ovate white bulb curving axis and prolonged in thread right up to bulb, 
except for white spot near basal end of swollen part; pigment spots near end 
of axis and ro* nd thread from bulb; young with basal part of stem black, swol¬ 
len part lightly pigmented* 
Postocular luminous organ long as eye. Lateral photophores 26 to 28 between 
gill opening and ventral, 12 to 14 between ventral andanal. Ventral series 8 
2 or 3 between isthmus and pectoral, 27 between pectoral and ventral, 13 or 14 
between ventral and anal, 9 or 10 between anal and caudal* 
D* 14; A. 17 to 19; pectoral rays 4 or 5; ventral 7* 
Length 153 mm. without caudal. (Regan and Trewavas.) 
Atlantic. 
Melan ostomias macr ophot us Regan and Prewavas 
Melano stomias macroph otus REGAN and TREiVAVAS, Danish Dana Ebcped. Dceanogr. Rep., 
iiO.6, March 10, 1930, p.115, fig .111 -b (end of barbel). Caribbean Sea 
south of Virgin Islands M. 17 0 55 T W. 64 ° 48 *, 400 meters; N. 10 ° 24 1 
W. 54 38 ? , 100 meters; off Dominica N. 15 ° 8 1 W # 61 0 31 f , 300 to 
o Q 
800 meters; west of Jamaica N. 18 22 1 W. 78 38 T , 100 meters; near St. 
Croix N. 17 ° 43 1 W. 64 ° 56 f , 100 to 500 meters. 
Depth 10; head 7. Eye 6 in head; barbel 1 2/3 to 1 5/6 in head, stem 
black except short white ring about middle of length; beyond with narrow anter¬ 
ior and posterior translucent expansions as far as large yellowish oval bulb, 
beyond which short, flat, black expansion; axis covered by bulb, ending in black 
