876 . 
Depth 6 1/3; head 3 2/5, -width 2 l/3. Snout to eye 2 l/8 to 
2 l/3 in head; eye 5 l/4 to 5 3/4, 2 l/4 to 2 3/4 in snout, 1 1/4 to 1 
l/3 in interorbital; orbit 4 in head, 1 2/3 in snout, little greater 
than 1 in interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite hind eye edge, length 
3 l/5 to 3 1/2 in head; mandibular barbel 2 to 2 2/3 in eye; teeth in 
villiform bands in jaws of 6 or 7 irregular rows; interorbital 4 to 4 2/5 
in head, low, nearly level. Gill rakers 0+6 or 7, low tubercles on sec¬ 
ond arch, about l/4 of gill filaments, which l/2 of eye. 
Scales 82 in lateral line to pseudocaudal base; 7 above, 10 or 
11 below, 11 predorsal to occiput and about 50 more forward nearly to 
snout tip. Scales with 3 to 7 radiating spinuliferous apical ridges, 
last spinules extending beyond hind edges of scales; circuli moderate 
complete, 
D* — * ® or il» ^—80, seoond simple ray slender, entire, 2 2/5 
in head; interdorsal space 3 l/4 to 4; A. 78, fin height 5 l/8; pseudo¬ 
caudal small; pectoral rays £, 17, fin 2 4/5 in head; ventral rays I, 6, 
fin 3. 
Brown, paler on under surfaces. Lower surface of head especi- 
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ally paler than rest of head. Iris gray. Inside mouth dusky and in gill 
opening blackish. Fins brownish. 
East Indies, Philippines, 
♦ 
U. S. N. M., No. 72945, Mabul Island (NW.) N.22°W., 4.3 miles 
(lat, 4 lO’SO"!?., long, 118 # 38 , 08 n S,), vicinity Sibuko Bay, Borneo, In 
310 fathoms. September 29, 1909. Albatross Collection (D.5590). Length 
250 to 295 mm. Two examples. 
