D. Ill, 10, I, first branched ray 1 1/3 in total head length; 
adipose fin 3 1/5; A. Ill, 16, I, first branched ray 1 2/5; caudal 
1 1/5, forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 2/5; pectoral 1 l/8; 
ventral 1 2/3. 
Dark brown or dusky. Opercle and inside gill opening blackish. 
Iris gray. Fins brownish. 
Pacific Ocean. The type 121 mm. long in the Carnegie Museum. 
74517 U. S. N. M. N. 42°11* E. 141°57«. In 269 to 326 fathoms. 
Albatross Collection (5039). Length 153 mm. Paratype. 
Lampanyctus stilblus Gilbert 
Lampanyctus stilblus GILBERT, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 26, No. 6 
1908, p. 235, pi. 8. Near Nukuhiva, Marquesas Group, to 300 
fathoms. —PARR, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, vol. 3, 
art. 3, Dec. 1928, p. 89 (reference). —FOWLER, Mem. Bishop 
Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 69 (compiled). —PARR, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., vol. 76, 1929, p. 23 (type). 
Depth 51/8; head 3, width 2 3/5. Snout 8 in head; eye 3 2/5, 
greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary extends 3/4 eye diameter 
behind eye though not quite to moderate inclined hind preopercle edge, 
slender, length 1 1/2 in head from snout tip; interorbital 5, convex. 
