369 
edge and behind eye; small photophor© at lower eye edge; 1 operculrar, low* 
Upper lateral series of photophores 25 or 26 between gill opening and ventral, 
16 between ventral and anal, 14 between anal origin and caudal base; lower or 
ventral series 8 on isthmus, then 28 or 29 to ventral, 15 between ventral and 
anal and 2 above front of anal* 
/ 
D. 12 to 15, fin height 2 l/8 to 2 l/2 in total head length; A. 17 Q r 18, 
fin height 3 l/8 to 3 l/5; caudal 1 3/5, forked, lobes slenderly pointed; vent¬ 
ral 1 l/3 to 1 3/5, rays 8; pectoral with long front ray 4 7/8 to 5 in combined 
% 
A 
head and body to caudal base, hind group of fin rays 3 and 2 in head; least o 
depth of caudal peduncle equals eye* 
Blackish brown# Iris grayish* Barbel pale or brownish white# Fins whitish# 
Atlantic# 
33444 U.S.N.M. N. 40 ° 26 ' 40." W. 66 ° 58 ' . In 956 fathoms. Alba- 
» 
tross Station 2083* Length 100 mm* Type of Hyperchoristus tanne ri* 
35624 U.S.N.M. N. 39 ° 11 * 00 " W. 72 ° 08 « 30 Albatr oss Station. 
Length 123 rnm* 
47617 U.S.N.M. Old Bahama Channel. Blake Station CXXV. In 500 fathoms. 
* 
Length 35 mm* It has the short barbel with the large subterminal bulb and a 
#• 
small terminal bulb. Specimen hardly sufficient for satisfactory description 
Genus PH0T0NECTES Gflnther 
It 
Fhotonectes GUlftEiER, Rep. Voy# Challenger, vol.22, 1887, p*212. Type Lucifer 
H tl 
albipennis D0DERLEIN, Virtually. Fho tonectes GTJNTHER proposed to replace 
Lucifer D0DERLEIN # 
Luc ifer (not J.V.Thompson) DODERLEIU, Archiv Naturges., 1882, p.26# Type Lucifer 
albipennis Doderlein, 
