2243 
Diaohus solendidus WEBER, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 90 
■--- - - .r i ..1.11 .» 
(Madura Sea, in 289 meters). --TAMING , Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturh. 
Foren. Eobenhavn, vol. 86, 1928, p. 60 (diagnosis in key), —PARR, 
BuJ.1. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, vol. 3, art. 3, Dec. 1928, 
p. 123 (compiled). 
Myctophum splendidum WEBER and BEAUFORT, Fishes Indo Austral. 
Archipelago, vol. 2, 1913, p. 170 (WEBER’S material). 
Depth 4 to 5; head 3 2/5 to 3 l/2, width 2 1/4 to 2 3/4* Snout 5 1/2 
to 6 in head from snout tip; eye 3 3/4 to 4, greater than snout, 1 to 1 l/8 
in interorbital; maxillary reaches well beyond eye though not quite to 
inclined hind preopercle edge, length 1 1/3 to 1 1/2 in head iron snout tip; 
interorbital 3,3/5 to 4, convex. Gill rakers 8 + 15, lanceolate, 1 2/5 in 
eye s twice gill filaments. 
Scales 37 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter, not 
especially enlarged, tubes simple and prominent; 3 ? above, 4 ? below, 15 
■oredorsal forward to eye* Caudal base scaly. Ventral with large pointed 
axillary scale, nearly 1/2 fin length. Scales with 6 basal radiating striae 
and 8 weak apically; circuli rather fine and complete. 
