275 
scattered over head and body and forming 2 rows on ventral surface. Glandular 
patches pinkish when fresh, white in spirit, on sides of body behind ventral 
region and above and below on caudal peduncle, 
D. 16, inserted little behind ventrals and ending immediately before anal; 
A. 15; pectoral rays 8; ventral 7, inserted little nearer snout tip than, 
caudal, bmall dorsal and ventral adipose fins. 
Length 213 mm* (Regan and Trewavas.) 
South Africa. 
Astronesthes cyaneus (Brauer) 
Bathylychn us cyaneus BRATJRR, Zool. Anzeiger, 
South of Ceylon, 2000 meters; Deutsch. 
Tiefsee - Fische, 1906, p.35, text figs. 
i 
between Cevlon and Maldives in K. Lat. 4 
i j 
PARS, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection 
vol.26, Ho.668, 1902, p.239. 
Tiefsee Exped. Valdivia, vol.5, 
6 a - b, pi.2, fig.5 (type, from 
° 56 • E. Long. 78 0 15 * 3 "). - 
, vol.3, art.2, Dec.30, 1927, p#37 
(compiled). 
Astronesthes cyaneus REGAN and TRIL7AVAS, Danish Dana Exped. Oceanogr. u ep#, No. 
o o 
5 , Hay 30, 1929, p.21, fig. 14 (N. 9 to 26 ° W. 20 to 83 , 19 to 
3500 meters). - H0H '.All, Discovery Sep., vol.2, 1930, p.306 (ll. 6 55 ’ . 
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15 54 f ) 
Depth 5 to 6 1 /4; head 3 3/4 to 4. Eye 4 to 4 2/o in head, about equals 
snout; each palatine with 4 to 6 weak teeth; barbel slender, white, l/2 head, 
with age when complete ending in very small elongate bulb. 
Postocular luminous organ small, close to eye. ^ateral photophores 13 or 
14 between gill opening and ventral, 18 to 21 between ventral end anal, ben- 
