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of the Dee and Mersey (Colling wood); Isle of Wight 

 (Saxby, fide F. & H.); Aberdeenshire (coll. Macgilli- 

 vray); Hebrides and Shetland, in 40-75 f. (J. G. J.). 

 It is rare or not often met with. Bohuslan (Loven, as 

 R. Owenii); Mediterranean (D. Chiaje, Risso, Philippi, 

 and Verany). 



Steenstrup, who is one of the greatest authorities on 

 the Cephalopods, considers JR. Owenii of Ball the male, 

 and his R. Jacobii the female of R. macrosoma. Ball 

 described R. Owenii as having the arm-suckers very 

 large and distinct, and like " pearls in a diadem • " they 

 are ranged in 3 rows (oblique rows of 3 or 4, F. & H.), 

 those in the centre row being not more than half the 

 diameter of those on each side; on the first pair of 

 arms the suckers are more numerous, more equal in 

 size, and smaller than on the other arms. He described 

 R. Jacobii as much larger, its suckers smaller, and its 

 arms proportionally shorter. 



A small Cephalopod of this genus, which I dredged 

 in Shetland, having longer and more slender tentacles, 

 with the club at the extremity only, and the arm- 

 suckers symmetrically arranged in a double row, Prof. 

 Loven says " may very possibly be the young of my 

 Rossia glaucopis" This species was discovered by him 

 in Finmark, and has since been found by Sars on the 

 same coast in 20 f. 



2. It. papilli'fera*, Jeffreys. 



Body stout, and of a more solid consistence than that of the 

 foregoing species ; the back of the mantle, head, and arms is 

 covered with sma]l whitish pimples, which are mostly placed 

 on the chromatophores, and irregularly scattered over the 

 surface ; these pimples are more numerous and smaller on the 

 upper part of the body ; colour pinkish-grey, with the usual 



* Covered with pimples. 



