110 Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 



The outermost mouth papilla is large, broadly oval, slightly longer than 

 broad; the next is similar, slightly smaller and so set on the mouth frame 

 that the plane of its flattening is parallel with the median interradial line; 

 slightly beyond (proximal to) this, outside of and below it, deep in the 

 mouth groove, is a large spiniform mouth papilla; beyond the second 

 mouth papillae and in line with them are two long thick blunt papillae, which 

 may be apical mouth papillae, or lateral tooth papillae, though they are very 

 much larger than the other tooth papillae. The tooth papillae are few, 

 rather large. 



The tentacle scales are two, the inner very long, narrowly leaf like, 

 distally overlapping that on the opposite side of the arm, the outer much 

 shorter; on the first side arm plate the outer is about half as large as the 

 inner, which is here i-elatively small; on the next three side arm plates the 

 outer is about one third as large as the inner; on the outer part of the arm it 

 is usually small, not much longer than broad, well rounded; distally it 

 becomes proportionately longer again, and narrow. 



The color is light yellowish brown, the disk with scattered small irregular 

 spots and an interrupted border of sepia; the upper arm plates have a 

 narrow median light line, and on either side of it an indistinct blotch of 

 darker. On the upper surface of the arms there are traces of red bands 

 narrowly bordered with black, about three upper arm plates in width, 

 separated by somewhat broader bands of yellow mixed and clouded with 

 black. Beneath the color is a uniform light yellow brown. 



r?/pe.— Cat. No. 38,662 U. S. N. M., from "Albatross" Station 2,944, 

 off southern California, in 30 fathoms. 



