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D. 13; A. 15. Brownish black, cheek snout and mandible colorless. 
Length 37 mm., without caudal. (Parr.) 
Diaphus boringi. new species 
Depth 3 2/3 to 4; head 3 to 3 1/3, width 2 to 2 2/5. Snout 7 to 
7 1/3 in head; eye 3 1/10 to 3 1/5, greater than snout or interorbital; 
maxillary reaches well behind eye or nearly opposite slightly inclined 
hind preopercle edge, slender, length 1 3/5 to 1 2/3 in head; interorbital 
3 1/5 to 4, very slightly convex. Gill rakers 7 -f 17, lanceolate, little 
greater than gill filaments or 1 1/2 in eye. 
Scales 34 or 35 in lateral line to caudal base and 1 or 2 more on 
latter, little enlarged, tubes simple, prominent; 3 above, 3 below, 
15 or 16 predorsal to occiput. Ventral axillary scale large, 2 1/5 in 
fin. Caudal base scaly. Scales with 3 basal radiating striae; 3 or 4 
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feeble or imperfect radiating apical striae; circuli fine. 
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