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Scales 65 in median lateral series from upper edge of rill opening to 
caudal base; 8 transversely from dorsal origin to lateral series of photo¬ 
phores. Scales cycloid, without striae; 6 basal circuli, apically scale 
entire. 
Small suborbital photophoret 2 small black photophores on cheek, one 
above maxillary end and other midway between first and eye center; 3 oper- 
culars, of which 2 on front border of opercle with upper level with eye 
center and lower behind mouth angle, third on subopercle slightly above level 
of pectoral fin origin; small mandibular photophore-slightly before suborb¬ 
ital, terminal end of mandible glandular, apparently luminous; 3 close set 
series of lateral photophores ventrally, upper on lateral line of 66 small 
round spots and last in series on caudal base; median row slightly above 
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level of pectoral fin, of 48 photophores as 2 before pectoral, 18 between 
pectoral and ventral, 13 between ventral and anal and along anal base till 
above twenty-third ray; lower row as 11 branchiostegals, 13 from isthmus 
to pectoral, 17 from pectoral to ventral, 12 from ventral to anal, 29 from 
anal to caudal and without break in series on caudal peduncle. 
D. 12, fin height 1 3/4 (?) in total head; A. 38, fin height anteriorly 
2 1 / 5 ; caudal damaged, apparently forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 
4 to 5; pectoral 2 (?) to 2 l/8; ventral 2 2/5. 
Blackish brown, scales edged darker or blackish. Cheeks and maxillary 
pale, dotten w‘th brown. Mandible tip gray. Fins whitish. 
Atlantic Ocean. 
84292 U.S.E.M. Providence Channel. Grampus (Bache) Station. 
March 3, 1914. Length 32 to 41 mm. Two examples. 
84293 I7.S.H.M. Gulf Stream 5 miles from Gun Cay. In 75 meters. 
