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Scales (pockets) 140? in lateral line? 7 or 8 above, 18 or 19 below, 
24 predorsal forward opposite hind eye edge. Scales very caducous, most 
all fallen. Scales with 3 parallel apical spinuliferous ridges, last 
spinules not extended beyond hind scale edge; circuli moderate, complete. 
L. II, 9 — 
80 to 96, second aiapfiba r ay slender, row of small 
antrorse spinules along its front edge, length 1 l/2? to 1 2/3? in head; 
interdorsal space 2 l/2 to 2 3/5; A. 105, fin height 3 l/3? to 5?; pec¬ 
toral rays 1^, 16, fin 2 to 2 l/5 in head; ventral rays I_, 9, fing 1 to 
1 l/5 in head, first ray ending in long filament. 
Light brown, doubtless due to preservation alcohol. Irisdark gray. 
Opercles and branchiostegal region gray borwn. Inside mouth gray. Inside 
gill opening blackish brown. Belly and abdomen not dark in type, neutral 
or blackish brown in smaller paratypes, though breast and chest pale in 
all. Fins pale. 
Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans. 
U. S. N. M., No. 45358. 
Albatross Collection (D. 2859). Type 313 mm and 2 paratypes 
151 to 200 mm. 
