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greater than interorbital; maxillary extends l/5 to 2/5 eye diameter behind 
eye, length 1 l/3 to 1 l/2 in head from snout tip; interorbital 4 to 4 l/5, 
nearly level# Gill rakers 5 f 12 (?), finely lanceolate, little over half of 
eye; gill filaments subequal with gill rakers* 
One preocular photophores, little below middle of front eye edge; 1 on 
cheek below hind eye edge, though but little below lower eye edge; 2 oper- 
culars at same level, slightly above origin of pectoral fin; upper lateral 
series 11 between pectoral and ventral, 11 between ventral and front of anal; 
lower or ventral series with 9 branchiostegals, 7 on isthmus, 3 before pectoral 
fin origin, 11 between pectoral and ventral, 10 between ventral and anal, 12 
or 13 from anal origin to caudal base* 
• * 14, first branched ray 1 2/3 to 2 in total head length; adipose fin 
4 l/2; A. 14, first branched ray 2 to 2 l/8; caudal 1 l/4 to 1 l/2, forked; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 3 7/s to 4; pectoral 1 1/5 to 1 2/5; ventral 
1 4/5 to 1 2/5; ventral 1 4/5 to 2# 
Brown generally* iris neutral gray* Photophores all set^ in blackish 
pigment* Iris silvery white, also reflections on sides of head* Pins pale 
brownish to whitish* 
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Oceans* The rows of photophores or spots on 
the front of the back and the 2 series along the middle of the tail are not 
Evident in my examples# 
D. 5507. Camp Overton Light, Higan Bay, (Mindanao), S* 1 E», 
* 8* 6 miles (N# 8 ° 21 ? 12 n E* 124 ° 12 ! 6 northern Mindanao and 
vicinity* In 425 toms* August 5, 1909* Length 27 mm. 
D* 5319. China Sea vicinity of Formosa (N. 21 ° 31 1 E* 117 ° 53’) 
November 5, 1908. Length 16 mm. 
