CATALOGUE OF VERTEBRATES. 763 



AOHIRUS, Lac. 

 A. lineatuB, L. [mollis, Pleuronectes, lineatus, Solea, achirus.) Sole. 



Olive brown, with six narrow, vertical, black lines and numer- 

 ous spots and clouds ; left side white, mottled or barred ; form 

 oval ; scales on chin, &c., three or four times size of others ; 

 fins scaly on both sides ; nostril of blind side and lip of colored 

 side fringed ; teeth small, on blind side only ; head scaled ; no 

 anal spine ; both pectorals absent. Dorsal rays, 55 ; anal rays, 

 41 ; lateral-line scales, 75 ; length, 6 inches. 



"This little species is abundant along our coast and in the 

 various bays and inlets. Although much more abundant during 

 the spring and summer, they are met with throughout the year. 

 They are known at Beesley's Point as the ' hog-choker.' " 



Order PEDICULATI. 



Carpal bones of pectorals elongate, forming a sort of arm ; gill 

 openings reduced to a foramen, more or less posterior to the pector- 

 als ; ventrals, if present, jugular ; no scales ; first vertebra united to 

 cranium ; no interclavicles. 



Family LOPHIIDiE. 



Fishing-frogs. 



Head wide, large, depressed; body tapering rapidly backward; 

 mouth very large, opening into an enormous stomach ; upper jaw 

 protractile, lower projecting ; teeth in both jaws strong and unequal ; 

 gill openings comparatively large in lower axil of pectorals ; pseudo- 

 branchs present; no gill rakers; spinous dorsal of three tentacle- 

 like spines on head and three smaller ones behind ; ventrals far apart. 



LOPHIUS, L. 



L. piscatorius, L. (ameriaanus.) Angler. Fishing-frog. Monkfish. 

 Goosefish. Allmouth. Bellows-fish. 

 Brownish, mottled ; white below ; pectorals and caudals black 

 at tip ; body scarcely longer than head ; head surrounded by a 



