278 
sides behind ventral, above ventral above pectoral, 
• 1/ fbtj 18, begins above or just behind ventral base and ends above second 
to ■Lourfch anal ray; A. 17; pectoral 8; ventral 7 or 8, 1 ttle preriiedian. 
Small ventral adipose fin and short adipose dorsal. 
Length 40 mm, wihtout caudal. (Regan and Trewavas.) 
llorth Atlantic. 
Astronesthes long!ceps Regan and Trewavas 
vJiiosui.os longiceps idiGAN and Tlffii/TA/AS, Danish Dana Domed* 0ceanop*r* Ren-. 
"* ~~ '* *" * 1 m mm "** **" O r 
♦ 
! • j !: v f -i ' • 2o, fig,15* « 29 24 f a, 48 8 1 , 10 meters. 
Depth 4 2/ 3; head 3 1/2. Dye b 1/2 in head; 7 palatine teeth each side; 
barbel little longer than head. 
*ostocular luminous organ small, close behind eye below. Lateral photophores 
13 between gill opening and ventral, 21 between ventral and anal. Ventral series 
between isthmus and pectoral, 10 between pectoral and ventral, 13 between vent¬ 
ral and anal. 
D « 18 ; A. 13; pectoral 8; ventral 7. Small adipose dorsal and smaller 
ventral. 
Length 25 mm. without caudal. (Regan and Trewavas.) 
Atlantic, 
Astronesthes indicus Brauer 
Astronesthes infers BRAJTER, f Zool. Anzeiger, vol.25. Ho.668, 1902, p.287. 
of Zanzibar, in 3000 meters; Deutsch. Tiefsee Exped. Valdivia, vol*15 
Tx©j-see—Fische, i 06, o.53, text iigs. 5 a—b, pi,2, fig*3 (type, from 
East 
9 
Indian 
Ocean between Zanzibar and Seychelles in S. Lat. 5 0 12 ’ 5 " E. Long. 46 
o 
