LOPHIUS, FISHING-FROG, Toad-fish, or Sea-devil; a genus of the branchiofregious order of fishes, whose head is in size equal to all the rest of the body. There are three species; the most remarkable of which is the piscatorius, or common fishing-frog, an inhabitant of the British seas. This singular fish was known to the ancients by the name of batrachus, and rana; and to us by that of the fishing-frog, for it is of a figure resembling that animal in a tadpole state. Pliny takes notice of the artifice used by it to take its prey: Eminentia sub oculis cornicula turbato limo exerit, oscillantes pisciculos attrahens, donec tam prope accedunt, ut afficiat. "It puts forth the slender horns it has beneath its eyes, enticing by that means the little fish to play round, till they come within reach, when it springs