202 . 
eye 2, greatly exceeds snout or Interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite 
hind eye edge, expansion 2 l/2 in eye, length 1 l/3 in head from snout tip; 
interorbital 8, depressed, low. ^ill rakers 5 4 15, 1 3/5 in orbit, gill 
filaments 2 2 / 3 . 
Scales cycloid, very caducous, all lost. 
Small photophore close before and another behind eye; 1 on lower cheek 
above and behind hind maxillary end; 2 operculars, upper level with lower 
eye edge and lower slightly above small photophore on cheek; upper lateral 
series of 7 oblong vertical photophores from pectoral until over ventral fin 
base; lower or ventral series as 6 oblong vertical branchiostegals; curved 
row of 6 nearly circular photophores from front end of isthmus to pectoral 
base; 10 equidistant, circular and smaller each side of median line from 
pectoral to ventral; 19 photophores gradually smaller posteriorly from ventral 
base to about opposite third anal ray base; 5 small photophores above middle 
of anal base; 15 very small photophores little before end of anal base until 
low on lower side of caudal peduncle to origin of lower caudal lobe. 
D. 10, rays 8.11 bro en, base 2 1/5 in total head length; A. 11,20, origin 
opposite eighth dorsal ray base; caudal damaged, well emarginate; least 
depth of caudal peduncle 3 3/4; pectoral 1 l/2; ventral 2 l/2 (?) 
Body generally pale brownish. u cad with more or less blackish, snout and 
most of iaws whitish. Cheek and iris with silberv white, fust?/ dots at bases 
of dorsal and front anal rays. Black spot at bases of outermost caudal rays. 
Hawaiian Islands. 
% 
47708 r.S.'T.H. N. 21 0 12 W. 157 0 53 ' . Albatross Station 
3472. In 295 fathoms. 
^ength 83 mm. Type. 
