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fig.3. N. 5 ° 31 * W. 86 0 31 ', 1010 fathoms. Gulf of Panama. /| 
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Depth 6 l/8; head 3 l/4. Snout to eye 3 1/2 in head; orbit 5 7/8; eye 
8 , 2 l/5 in snout, 3/o of interorbital; maxillary extends 7/8 of eye behind 
eye, expansion 7/8 of eye, length 1 7/8 in head; teeth small, suboonio, hoocked, 
incurved, unequal, bands of several series on prenaxillaries, maxillaries, 
dentaries and palatines, outer series smallest, inner much largest and depressible 
; single large tooth each side of vomer; interorbital low. Gill rakers 3 13, 
less."half of eye. 
Scales 105 in lateral line; 11 above, 9 below# 
D. 19, fifth ray 6 3/4 in head; A. 14, eigth ray 5 3/5; caudal damaged, 
* 
evidently forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 3/4; pectoral damaged; 
ventral 5 l/3. 
Deep black over entire surface and linings of body cavity. Length 432 
mm. 
Gulf of Panama. 
N arcetes erimelas Alcoclc 
Harcetes erimelas ALCOCK, Ann. Mag. Eat. Hist., series 6, vol.6, 1890, p.305. 
About 75 miles west of Goa coast, Laccadive Sea (N. Lat. 15 ° 02 ' E. 
T 0 \ 
hong. 72 34 *), in 740 fathoms; Illustrat. Zool. Investigator, Fishes, 
pt.l, 1892, pi.4, fig.l. - GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic Ichthy., 1895, pp# 45, 
510 (copied). - ALCOCK, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol.65, pt.2, 1896, 
p.335 (compiled); Cat. Deep Sea Fishes Indian 1/Jus., 1899, p.175 (Arabian 
Sea near Lacca dive Islands, 740 fathoms). 
Depth 5 l/8; head 3. Snout 3 in head; eye 5 4/5, 1 9/l0 in snout, less 
