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Skin brown, scales pale or with silvery and iridescent reflections. 
Skin most everywhere sprinkled with minute dusky dots, some dots variably 
larger than others. Sides of head silvery white, also iris. Fins all 
whitish. 
Diagnosis . Related to Diaphus coeruleum Klunzinger but differs 
chiefly in the lower position of the suprapectoral photophore,, the more 
elevated supraventral, higher first anteroanal and line joining first 
and second anteroanals forming sharper angle with even curve in which all 
remaining anteroanals are arranged. No separation of the antorbitals as 
in Diaphus coeruletim . 
Type No. U. S. N. M. 
D. 5268. Matocot Point, S. 50° E. 5.80 miles (N. Lat. 13°42' E. Long. 
120°57 , 15 w ), Verde Island Passage and Batangas Bay. In 170 fathoms. 
June 8, 1908. Length 100 to 128? mm. 3 examples. Type (largest) and 
paratypes. 
D. 5393. Panganalan Point, Talajit Island, S. 59° E., 14*8 miles 
(N. Lat. 12°3 f 30« E. Long. 124°3*36"), between Samar and Masbate. In 
136 fathoms. March 13, 1909. Length 69 mm. In poor condition. 
D. 5391. (Destaeado Island) Tubig Point, N. 31° E., 3 miles (N. Lat. 12°13 , 15 n 
E. Long. 124°05 , 03 w ), between Samar and Masbate. In 118 fathoms. March 13, 
1909. 
