162 LONG ANGLER. Class IV. 



pectoral fins, each of these is very wide, so that 

 some writers have imagined it to be a receptacle 

 for the young in time of danger. In a specimen 

 I saw at Brighthelmstone, which was four feet 

 long and weighed fifty pounds, the receptacle 

 or sack was fourteen inches deep ; the aperture 

 or spiracle is at the bottom of it, and opens 

 into the mouth. The second dorsal fin is 

 placed very low near the beginning of the tail ; 

 the anal fin is placed beneath, almost opposite 

 the former; the body grows slender near the 

 tail, the end of which is quite even. The color 

 of the upper part of this fish is dusky, the lower 

 part white : the skin smooth. 



2. Long, Fishing Frog of Mount' s-Bay. 27- fig- 6. Phil. Trans. Vol. 



Borlase Cornwall, 266. tab. liii. 170. 



JL HIS is a species at present unknown to us, 

 except by description. 

 Pescrip- It is, says Doctor Borlase, of a longer form 

 than the common kind ; the head more bony, 

 rough, and aculeated. It had no finlike appen- 

 dages round the head, but on each side the 

 thinner part of the body, beginning beneath 

 the dorsal fin, and reaching within two inches 



TJON. 



