232 
236 fathoms? K. 14 ° 30 ' 30 96 ° 14 
O V 
89 20 1 45 ", 300 fathoms)* 
625 fathoms; N. 11 5 1 • • 
Argvrooelecus lichnus TOaxiSEiilD and ETCIIOLS, 
York, vol.52, art.l. Hay.16, 1925, p.ll 
oms). 
Argyropelecus ca-linus (JARMAN, I ®m. i/us. Gomp 
Port Louis II art or, Mauritius. . 
Bull. Amer. "-us. L&t. Hist., Hew 
(off Lower California, 491 fath- 
. Zool., vol.24, 1899, p.235. Off 
Depth 1 l/3 to 1 2/5? head 2 4/5 to 3, width 1 3/4 to 2. Snout 24/5 
to 3 l/5 in head from snout tip? eye 2 l/5 to 3, greatly exceeds snout or 
narrow interorbital? maxillary vertical, reaches opposite front eye edge to 
1/2 in eye, expansion 1 2/5 to 2 in eye, length 1 in head from snout tip; 
interorbital 0 in eye, rather low, with deep median groove. Gill rakers 6 ^ 
10, lanceolate, slender, l’l/4 in eye; gill filaments 2/3 in gill rakers. 
Preorbital photophore below nostrils; 1 veiled on cheek just above angle 
of preopercle angle or little above lower eye edge, lower larger just above 
and close behind preopercle angle; 6 branchiostegals. ateral series of 
photophores 8, second highest or level with lower opercular, first little 
lower or above pectoral fin origin, then others all graduated lower to eight; 
lower or ventral series as 6 on isthmus, 12 abdominals to ventral of which 1 
or 2 before pectoral origin, 4 between ventral and anal, 6 above anal base 
end 4 on lower surface of caudal peduncle. 
D. VII or VIII, 9, first flexible ray 2 to 2 l/4 in total head length? 
A. II, 10 or II, 11, first flexible ray 2 to 3? caudal 1 to 1 l/8, widely 
emarginate? least depth of caudal peduncle 2 1/8 to 2 l/2? pectoral 1 l/5 
to 2? ventral 3 to 3 l/4. 
Largely brilliant silvery white. Back and upper surface of head brown. 
