80 
Depth 4 3/4 (?); head 3 3/5 (?); head 3 3/5, width 3 l/4. Snout 3 2/5 
in head from snout tip; eye 6 l/4, 2 in snout, 1 2/3 in interorbital; max- 
eye ' - ' | 
illary reaches behind eye at least 2/3/diameter, expansion equals eye, length 
1 5/6 in head from snout tip; mandible slightly protrudes with slight pointed 
bony spur pointing forward from symphysis; teeth rather long, slender, slightly 
curved, in bands in jaws and inner longest; irregular row of similar teeth on 
eqch palatine and scarcely any on vomer; interorbital 5, low, with broad deep 
groove extending on cranium to occiput; opercle with numerous feeble though 
distinct radiating striae. Gill rakers 5 <f 17, lanceolate, slightly longer 
than eye; gill filaments 3/5 of gill rakers. 
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Scales 50 in lateral line to caudal base; 7 above, 7 below, 38 predorsal 
forward to occiput. B a -teral line complete, well marked, tubes slender and 
well exposed. u cales very caducous, all fallen, and apparently not on head 
excepting occiput. 
D. 18 (?), inserted midway between hind preopercle edge and caudal base; 
A. 12, (?), inserted below last third of dorsal base; caudal damaged, apparently 
forked, small inconspicuous rudimentary rays 16 above or below; least depth of , 
caudal peduncle 3 2/3 in head; paired fins lost. 
Head black, ^-ris neutral black, pupil brown. Body brown, scale pockets 
dusky to blackish brown. Inside mouth and gill opening blackish • Fins brownish. 
Diagnosis. The poorly preserved specimen representing this species belongs 
in Karcetes. It differs from Narcetes erimelas Alcock in the anal origin at 
least below the last third of the dorsal base. 
Type. U.S.N.M. 
8740. D. 5460. *Halat Point Light, H. 24 0 E., 8. 2 miles (N. 13 0 
