65 
Depth 5 l/4; head 3. Snout to eye 3 l/8 in head; eye 5 l/s, orbit 
4, eye 1 3/5 in snout, twice interorbital; maxillary reaches hind eye edge, 
expansion 2 in eye, length 2 l/5 in head; teeth small, slender, uniserial 
on premaxill&ries, maxillaries, dentaries, and palatines, 1 to several each 
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side of vomer; interorbital depressed. Gill rakers slender, less than half 
eye. 
Scales 44 in lateral line; 4 above, 4 below. 
D. 13 or 14, fin base 2 l/4 in head and most all before anal; A. 11 
or 12, fin base 3 2/5; caudal damaged, deeply emarginate; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 3 2/3; paired fins damaged, both evidently small. 
Black outside and on linings of body cavities. Length 230 mm. (Garman.) 
Gulf of Panama. ' 
Bathytroctes inspector Garman 
Bathytroctes inspector GARMAN, Mem. 'ibis. Comp. Zool., vol.24, 1899, p.288, 
pl.M, fig.l, N. 6 10 » W. 83 0 6 *, 1471 fathoms. 
Depth 4 7/8; head 3 l/3, width 2 2/5. Snout 3 2/3 in head to eye; 
orbit 2 3/5; eye 3 7/8, equals snout, greater than interorbital; maxillary 
reaches opposite hind eye edge, expansion 2 2/5 in eye, length 2 in head; 
jaws equal; bony interorbital (damaged) about 2 2/3 (?) in eye. Gill rakers 
5-15, lanceolate, 1/2 of eye or twice gill filaments. 
Scales 47 in lateral line to caudal base; 5 above, 6 below, 24 predorsal 
forward to occiput. No scales now remaining in lateral line, which apparently 
axial along side of body. Scales all very caducous, most all fallen, thin, 
cycloid. 
