137 
16 between ventral and anal, 16 or 17 from anal to caudal (ll over anal base), 
D. 12 or 13, second ray 2 in total head length; A. 23 to 26, third ray 
2 2/5; caudal 1 l/2; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 3/4; pectoral 2, 
rays 9; ventral rays 1 2/3 in total head, rays 7; adipose fin 2 in eye. 
Length 305 ram. (Gt'nther, Norman.) Atlantic, lew Zealand Seas. 
Genus MANDUCUS Goode and B D an 
0 
danducua GOODE and BEAU, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, p.514. Type Gonostoma mad era- 
■< * 
se JOHNS OK, monotypic. 
Lychnopoles GAR’LAN, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol.24, 1899, p.244. Type Lych - 
nopoles arge nteolus GAHIMJ, monotypic. 
Parapho1 i chthys Y/HITLET, Australian Zoologist, vol.6, Feb •13, 1931, p.334# 
Fype Gone stoma modernse JOHNSON, virtually. Paraphotiohthys YilllTLEY 
proposed to replace Manduous GOODE and BEAN, thought preoccupied by 
•andue a HUEBNER 1806 in lepidoptera. 
Body oblong, compressed. n ead long, conic, much compressed, with thin 
bones. %e moderate. - Li outh very wide, mandible largely included. Upper 
teeth uniserial in front, sharp, conic, with small ones between, followed 
either side by few very long teeth with others smaller behind. Lower teeth 
uniserial, small ones between and double row of 8 smaller similar ones in 
front# v omer with few teeth. How of minute share teeth on Palatines and 
pterygoids, also small similar patch on upper side of tongue. Cpercles 
thin. Second suborbital not greatly enlarged. Gill openings very wide# 
Gill rakers rather long, few# ^o pseudobranchiae. Body with scales, except 
on top of head and. ridge on back, which rugosely wanted. Photophores in 2 
rows each side of belly close to ventral line, also row along lateral line 
