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17 between ventral and anal in close linear groups of 1 to 4 or 3 to 7 in middle 
spaced, 10 or 11 between anal and caudal, 
D. 21 to 26; A, 27 to 32; pectoral 7 to 10; ventral 6, midway from snout 
tip or front eye edge and caudal base. 
Length 117 mm. without caudal. (Regan and Trewavas.) 
Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea. 
Aristcntomias lunifer Regan and Trewavas 
Aristostamias lunifer REGAN and TREWAVAS, Danish Dana Exped. Oceanogr. Rep., No. 
6, March 10, 1930, p.138, pi.13, fig.2, text fig. 132 (end of barbel). N. 
19 ° 1 ’ 65 ° 23 *, 600 meters, north of Virgin Islands; N. 35 ° 42 * W. 
73 ° 43 ’, 300 meters; Ts rW rtg '. 
(l) Aristos tamias scinti llans (not GILBERT) PARR,. Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collec¬ 
tion, vol.3, art.2, Dec.30, 1927, p.96, fig.54 (N. 23 ° 39 1 W. 76 ° 41 *, 
7000 feet; N. 32 ° 19 ’ W. 64 ° 33 *, 8000 feet). 
Depth 6 l/2 to 7; depth 4 to 4 2/3. Snout 3 l/2 in head; eye 5 to 5 l/2; 
barbel 1/3 to 3/5 fish, end luminous, hardly enlarged. 
Subocular luminous organ 1./2 to 2/3 eye; postocular organ 1/3 to l/2; semi¬ 
circular strip of luminous tissue before and below eye and subocular organ. Lat¬ 
eral photophores 18 or 19 between gill opening and ventral, sometimes gap after 
1 oureh, no close set groups but last 2 sometimes closer together than rest; 16 
-O 18 between ventral and anal, last 4 to 7 forming close group. Ventral series 
5 } 3 between isthmus and pectoral, 17 or 18 between pectoral and ventral divided 
into groups by gaps after sixth, ninth and tenth and sometimes thirteenth or four¬ 
teenth but none of groups with photophores close set; 13 or 14 between ventral 
