1839 
One or 2 minute antorbital photophores, upper at 
upper front eye edge and lower rather low; 2 operculars, 
upper above end of maxillary, lower veiled; 3 veiled equi¬ 
distant branchiostegals; 5 pectorals, equidistant; 1 sup- 
rape c.t oral, close before or at pectoral origin; 2 subpector¬ 
als, lower little before.suprapectoral or little behind se¬ 
cond pectoral or about midway between latter and upper sub- 
pectoral, which close below lowest pectoral ray bases; 4 
ventrals, equidistant; 1 supraventral, level with upper sub¬ 
pectoral and little before first ventral photophore; 4 to 7 f 
8 to 12 anals; 3 supraanals , usually in inclined line, first 
opposite or little before third ventral spot, second little 
above first to which nearer than to thrd and little before 
or behind fourth ventral and at lower third to 2/5 in body 
depth little before first anteroanal; 1 posterolateral, little 
lower than uppermost supraanal and over fifth or sixth antero¬ 
anal; 2 precaudals, close set, posterior but little higher. 
Six large luminous supracaudal scales. 
