1640 
Depth 13 1/2; head 5 2/5, width 1 7/8. Maxillary 1 2/3 
in head from snout tip; interorbital 1 7/8, broadly convex. 
Gill rakers 3 f 20, finely lanceolate, greater than gill 
filaments or 4 1/8 in head from snout tip. 
Scales 53 in lateral line to caudal base, 6 transversely 
at dorsal origin,.20 predorsal. Scales very caducous most 
all having fallen. 
* 
D. I, 6, third branched ray 1 1/5 in total head length; 
A. Ill, 15, I, rays all broken; caudal lost; least depth of 
caudal peduncle 5; pectoral 2 1/5?; ventral 2? 
* 
Dusky brown to blackish. Luminous organs on top of head 
grayish. Opercles blackish. Fins pale brownish. 
* 
54616 U. S. N. M. Off Galapagos Island. Albatross 
Collection 3413. April 5, 1891. Length, without caudal, 
132 mm. 
