Order Pediculati: The Anglers Ay 
reason it does not afterwards admit its young into itself. The 
size and roughness of the head prevent them both from coming 
out (i.e., being born alive) and from going in (being taken into 
the mouth of the parent). The farpayos is the most pro- 
lific of the ceAayn, but it is scarce because the eggs are easily 
destroyed, for it lays them in a bunch near the shore.” 
The genus Lophius of northern range has a vertebral col- 
umn of about thirty vertebre. Lophius litulon occurs in Japan. 
In the North Pacific is found Lophiomus, similar in appearance 
but smaller in size, ranging southward to the equator, a 
southern fish having but eighteen vertebre. Lophiomus setigerus 
is the common anko of Japan, and other species are recorded 
from Hawaii and the Galapagos. 
The Sea-devils: Ceratiide.—The sea-devils, or Ceratiid@, are 
degenerate anglers of various forms, found in the depths of the 
arctic seas. The body is compressed, the mouth vertical; the 
substance is very soft, and the color uniform black. Dr. Gunther 
thus speaks of them: 
“The bathybial sea-devils are degraded forms of Lophius; 
they descend to the greatest depths of the ocean. Their bones 
Fic. 497.—Cryptopsaras couesi Gill. Gulf Stream. 
are of an extremely light and thin texture, and frequently other 
parts of their organization, their integuments, muscles, and 
intestines are equally loose in texture when the specimens are 
