2073 
Depth 5; head 3 1/5, width 3, Snout 7 l/3 in head from snout tip; 
eye 4 1/3, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary extends little 
over eye diameter beyond eye though not quite to well inclined hind 
preopercle edge, slender, length 1 2/5 in head from snout tip; inter¬ 
orbital 5?, low. Gill rakers 5> 12, 1 1/4 in eye; gill filaments 4/5 
gill rakers. 
Scales 39 in lateral line to caudal base, enlarged; 3 above, 4 below. 
Scales very caducous, all having fallen. 
Minute preorbital photophore between eye and lower part of nostril; 
1 suprahumeral, before operculars; 2 operculars, upper on line from lower 
eye edge to upper subpectoral, large, lower slightly anterior behind hind 
maxillary end; 3 equidistant veiled branchiostegals; 5 oectorals, first 
interspace longest, fourth elevated above lower subpectoral though not 
quite so high as upper little posterior to third pectoral; 1 supraventral 
little posterior to subpectorals about midway between lateral line and 
pectoral fin origin; 2 subpectorals, one over other, upper little before and 
below pectoral fin origin and lower just below pectoral fin base though 
before second pectoral; 4 ventrals, second slightly anterior and over first 
at same level as lower subpectoral, third midway between first or second 
and fourth; 6 + 8 or 9 anals, first and fifth anteroanals oloser to anal 
fin base at same di.stance, second well diverging, third and fourth inter¬ 
mediate between second and fifth, all posteroanals except first 2 behind 
anal fin base; 4 precaudals, first low and continuous! with last posteroanals, 
third midway between second and fourth which last at end of lateral line. 
Supracaudal luminous organs 4, infracaudals 9. 
