APPENDIX. 87 
tubercles. It is sometimes hard to convince our fishermen that 
the tubercles are not barnacles. The fin rays have, not unaptly, 
been compared to coral branches. 
The width of the caudal fin is from 7 to 8 inches. 
There are no ventral fins. 
The pectorals are very small, being 14 x1 inch each. 
The number of rays is 18. 
They are situate above (not after) the gill openings. They 
thus seem to have an anomalous position. 
These pectorals are so widely different from those of the Lo- 
phius piscatorius and seem to exclude our fish from the family 
Pediculati. 
What remains of the integument of the fins is black. 
There is a spiracle at the back of the tentacle. The gill open- 
ings are two in number. If they had opercles these have been 
destroyed. 
Shrinkage may have reduced the orginal dimensions. 
The color now is blackish brown. It was much darker when 
I first saw it. 
D. HonrEyMAN, 
March 25, 1884, Curator of Provincial Musewm., 
