405 
Blackish brown, light brown on areas where skin torn away. 
Iris neutral dusky. Pins largely whitish, dorsal and anal with 
dark brown anteriorly. 
Pacific Ocean. 
75803 U. S. N. M. Monterey Bay, California, Albatross . 
Station 4540. Length 72 mm. Type of Zastomlas scintillans 
Aristostomias tittmanni WELSH, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 
62, art. 3, 1923, p. 3, fig. 2. From 115 miles east of 
Cape Hatteras, 100 meters. -- REGAN and TREWAVAS, Danish 
Dana Exped. Oceanogr. Rep. No. 6, March 10, 1930, p. 140, 
figs. 135 and 136 (N. 8° to 37°¥J. 25°to 83? 40 to 2000 
meters)• 
r 
Depth 6 l/2; head 3 l/5, width 4. Snout 3 l/4 in head; eye 
5 l/2, 1 2/3 in snout, 1 l/5 in interorbital; maxillary extends 
2 3/4 eye diameters behind eye length but slightly less than head; 
teeth unequal, upper with 2 pairs of long, hollow, terminally 
barbed canines, followed by 5 pairs of much smaller terminally re¬ 
curved teeth, then 12 pairs of straight recumbent teeth; lower 
teeth with 2 pairs of large and 5 pairs of smaller blade like ter¬ 
minally barbed teeth, first 2 pairs fitting in grooves on side oi 
snout where mouth closes; palatines v/ith 4 small teeth each side; 
tongue v/ith 2 groups of strong retronse teeth, barbed inserted be¬ 
hind eye, 1 3/4 in combined head and body to caudal base, simple, 
filamentous, ends in smooth, ovoid knob; interorbital 4, convex. 
No gill rakers. 
