^ipi 
D. II_, 9, 116, second simple ray 2 4/5 in head; A. 104; 
pseudocaudal minute, apparently less than barbel; pectoral rays I j 16, 
length 1 l/2 in head; ventral rays 9, fin 2 l/lO in head, inserted well 
before pectoral origin which also slightly before first dorsal origin* 
Gray or drab brovm, head, breast and belly livid though not 
darker# Inside mouth and gill openings blackish# Iris gray# Fins dull 
dusky, dorsal and anal paler anteriorly# 
Japan# The scale pockets, from which most of the scales have 
fallen, would indicate that the scales are less regularly arranged than 
* 
* 
shown in the original figure of the species. 
U. S. N. M., no. 76863. 
Albatross Collection (D.5059). Length 513 mm. Type. 
Bathygadus introniger (Gilbert and Hubbs) 
Gadomus introniger GILBERT and HUBBS, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
no. 100, vol. 1, p. (393) 401, fig. 5, 1920 (type locality: off 
southern Luzon; Lagonoy Gulf; east coast British North Borneo; 
Buton Strait; Gulf of Boni; 300 to 700 fathoms). 
Bathygadus (Gadomus) introniger WEBER and BEAUFORT, Fishes Indo 
Austral# Archip., vol. 5, p. 21, 1929 (compiled). 
