1??8 
Depth 4; head 2 7/8 to 3, width 2. Snout 4 1/2 to 6 1/3 
in head from snout tip; eye 2 1/4 to 2 9/10, greatly exceeds 
snout or interorbital; maxillary extends well behind eye nearly 
to vertical preopercle edge, expansion 1 3/4 in eye, length 
1 2/5 to 1 1/2 in head; opercle posteriorly extended, wholly 
covers upper and lower pectoral photophores, notched opposite 
pectoral case. Gill rakers 4 f 10?, lanceolate, much greater tha 
gill filaments or 11/2 in eye. 
Scales 34 in lateral line. Scales very caducous, most all 
fallen. 
