196 
regularly biserial abo~e, uniserial below, strong, pointed, with smaller 
ones in interspaces. One or 2 minute teeth on vomer. Few small teeth at 
front end of each paltine. Pterygoids minutely toothed. Branchiostegals 
17. P ; o pseudobranchiae. Two series of prominent photophores each side of 
abdomen and 2 or more additional rows above on sides of body. Dorsal in¬ 
serted before first third in total. Anal rays 57 to 61, f ‘in length little 
over half fish. Caudal small, forked, Paired fins moderate. 
Triplophos he mingi (Me Ardle) 
Photlchthys heming i MC ARDLE, Ann. Mag. lM at. Hist., ser.7 
Bengal Bay, in 475 to 880 fathoms; Illustrat. Zool. 
pt.8, 1905, pi.36, fig.2. 
Triplophos hemingi LLOYD, - d em. Indian Lius., vol.2, 1909, 
- 3 OR IAN, Discovery ,Rep. 
Triplophos elongatus BRATJER, 
vol.2, 1930, p.296 (type). 
Zool. Anzeiger, vol.25, 1902 
, vcl.8, 1901, p.521. 
Imre s|i^gat or , F i she s, 
p.150 (Bay of Bengal) 
, p.282. South of 
Ceylon. 
Triplophos el ongatun BRA1TER, Deutsch. Tiefsee Exped. Valdivia, vol.15, Tiefsee- 
Fische, 1906, p. 90, pi.7, fig.4, text fig.41 (N. 4 ° 56 f E. 7B ° 15 ’ 
3 Tt , 2000 meters.). 
Depth 7 4/S; head 6 4/5, width 3. Snout 5 l/s in head from snout tip; 
» 
eye 5 l/4, greater than snout, little greater than interorbital} maxillary 
extends 3 eye diameters behind eye, slender, length 1 l/8 in head from snout 
tip; interorbital 6 3/4, very low, slightly convex, fill rakers 8 10, 
slender, lanceolate, 1 l/4 times eye diameter; gill filaments 2/3 of gill 
rakers. 
Scales (pockets) 58 (?) in median lateral series to caudal base; 10 
