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5 1/2 in head from, snout tip; eye 8 to 8 3/4, 1 l/8 to 1 4/5 in snout, 1 l/4 
to 1 4/5 in interorbital; maxillary extends 2 4/5 to 4 3/4 eye diameters behind 
eye, expansion 1 to 1 l/2 in eye, length 1 l/5 to 1 l/4 in he? v d from snout tip, 
interorbital 5 l/3 to 5 3/4, slightly convex. Gill rakers 8 + 11, slender, 
lanceolate, 1 l/5 times eye; gill filaments slightly less than gill rakers. 
Scales all fallen. 
t 
Slender ovoid luminous organ below eye close above upper maxillary edge, 
less than eye; upper lateral series of photophores 8 or 9 between pectorals 
and ventrals, 4 between ventrals and anal, 1 opposite front of anal; between 
pectoral from above its base series of 12 rather large white luminous bodies 
of which but 4 behind ventral; lower or ventral series of photophores 4 before 
pectoral origin, then 11 to ventral origin, 5 between ventral and anal and 21 
to caudal base; 2 white luminous bodies at lower rudimentary caudal rays 
more 
and 1 at upper. 
D. Ill, 9, I to III, 11, I, first branched ray 1 2/5 (?) to 2 in total head 
length; adipose fin 4 l/Z to 7 4/5; A. Ill, 26, I to III, 29, I, first branched] 
ray 1 l/2 to 2 l/5; caudal 1 l/3 to 1 3/5, well forked; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 4 l/8 to 6 l/2; pectoral 1 4/5 to 2 l/8; ventral 2 to 2 1/b. 
hark brown, usually with more or less dusky, nearly blackish on under sur¬ 
faces. Iris neutral dusky. Fins pale brownish or whitish. When fresh body 
violaceous black# 
Atlantic, Indian, Pacific O 0 eans# 
5727.D. 5497. Bantigui Island, N. 64 ° W., 10 miles (N. 9 ° 7 1 15 
E # 124 ° 59 1 30 ,T ), between Leyte and Mindanao. In 960 fathoms. August 
3, 1909. Length 96 mm. 
4317. D. 5671. Chenoki Point, -« 31 LL, 42. 5 miles , •• • 1 5 
