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opercle and 3 or 4 on preoperole. 
D. 12 to 14, begins well behind ventrals and ends well before anal; A# 15 
to 13; pectoral 8; ventral 7, little premedian.# Dorsal adipose fin and 
rather long low one ventral. 
Length 62 mm# without caudal. (Regan and Trewavas.) 
Atlantic, Daribbe an Sea. 
Astron es thes ocul atus Regan and Trewavas 
Astronesthes oculatus REGAN and TREWAVAS, Danish Dana Exped. Oceanogr. Rep., 
No.5, May 30, 1929, p.15, pl.l, fig.2. N. 17 ° 45 « W. 64 ° 55’. 5 *, 800 
meters, Caribbean Sea west of St# Croix. 
Depth 6 1/2; head 5. ^ye 3 3/4; palatine teeth weak, 4 each side; bar¬ 
bel 2/3 length of head, tapering, white on posterior side, black on anterior 
side; small elongate terminal bulb scarcely thicker than terminal portion of 
stem; interorbital 3 1/4 in head. 
Postocular luminous organ very close to eye. Lateral photophore 15 between 
gill opening and ventral,, 21 between ventral and anal. Ventral series 10 
between isthmus and pectoral, 16 between pectoral and ventral, 21 between ven- 
-•“•if* 
tral and anal, 11 between anal and caudal. I, *hite spots on side of head 4 be 
tween postocular luminous organ and preopercle, 3 or 4 on preoperole. 
D# 13, begins behind ventral and ends well before anal; A. 15; pectoral 
8 ; ventral 7, little premedian. Dorsal and ventral adipose fins short. Low 
fold of skin in mid-ventral line before ventral adipose fin but not continuous 
with it. 
•length 145 mm# without caudal# (Regan and Trewavas.) 
Caribbean Sea# 
