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dusky. Upper fins, caudal and pectoral tinted dusky. Inside of 

 gill-opening soiled with dusky. Length 19J4 inches. Sea Isle 

 City. 



Two examples have been examined from the above locality. 

 Breeding in deep water, and though considered as a food-fish it 

 is little valued. 



Merlucius vulgaris Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 819. 



Order PEDICULATI. 



The Pediculate Fishes. 



This is an offshoot from the Acanthopteri, perhaps nearest 

 related to the Bafrachoididce. 



Key to the families. 



a. Pseudobranchise present. i,ophiid^: 



aa. No pseudobranchiae. antEnnariid.'S 



Family LOPHIID^. 



The Anglers. 



Body contracted, conical, tapering rapidly backward from 

 shoulders. Head wide, depressed, very large. Mouth exceed- 

 ingly large, terminal, opening into an enormous stomach. Upper 

 jaw protractile. Maxillary without supplementary bone. Lower 

 jaw projecting. Both jaws with very strong unequal cardiform 

 teeth, some canine-like, most depressible. Vomer and palatines 

 usually with strong teeth. Gill-openings comparatively large, in 

 lower axil of pectorals. Gills 3. Gill-rakers none. Pseudo- 

 branchiae present. Pyloric coeca present. Skin mostly smooth, 

 naked, with many dermal flaps about head. Spinous dorsal of 

 III isolated tentacle-like spines on head, and III smaller ones 

 behind forming a continuous fin. Second dorsal moderate, similar 

 to anal. Pectoral members scarcely geniculated, each with 2 

 actinosts and with elongate pseudobrachia. Ventrals jugular, I, 



