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Skin brown where scales fallen, variably pale to dark and scale 
exposures often dusky to blackish. Adherent scales, sides of head and 
iris with silvery white sheen and iridescent reflections. Fins pale to 
whitish, often with dusky lines formed of minute dusky dots at articulations. 
Diagnosis . Unique in the genus in that the last 2 posteroanal 
/photophores are incline* upward above the general level of the preceding 
posteroanals. The antorbital single, large and as in Diaphus signatus . 
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D. 5493. Diuata Point (N.), N. 84" W., 5.5 miles (N. Lat. 9°04* 
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3. Long. 125'20*), between Leyte and Mindanao* 478 fathoms. August 2, 1909. 
Length 42 mm. 
D. 5422. Lusaran Point Light 3. 80° E., 9.7 miles (N. Lat. 10°31» 
E. Long. 18°45 ,, ) t between Panay and Guimaras. March 30, 1909. Length 
13 to 30 mm. examples. 
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D. 5125. Nogas Island (¥.), S. 11 E., 24 miles (N. Lat. 10 48» 
E. Long. 121 48*30*), Sulu Sea in vicinity southern Panay. 411 fathoms. 
February 3, 1908, Length 68 mm. Type. 
D. 5227. Point Origon, S. 44° E., 18.30 miles (N. Lat. 12°53*45" 
E. Long. 121°52t3o*t) f east of Mindoro. 322 fathoms. May 5, 1908. Length 
3? mm. 
