Familie Ommatostrephidae. Unterfarailie Illicinae. Illex illecebrosus illecebrosus. 



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weve here larger, darker, and more crowded tban elsewhere, and situated in several strata. The 

 linder sides of the arms and fins were colored like tbe body, except tbat the spots were smaller 

 and much less numerous. The suckers were pure white. Tbe eyes were dark, blueblack, 

 surrounded by an iridescent border. — The colors cbange constantly, when living or recently 

 dead, by means of the continual contraction and dilation of the chromatophores. The diff'erent 

 tints pass over the surface like bhishes.« 



»In specimens recently preserved in alcohol the same pattern of coloration is usually 

 visible. The dark dorsal band on the body and head, and the dark patches above the eyes, 

 as w(>ll as smaller dark patches in front of the eyes, can be plainly seen. In the darker parts 

 the chromatophores are much crowded, and have a purplish brown color, varying to chocolate 

 -brown in specimens longer preserved. On other parts of the body the chromatophores are 

 more scattered and usually reddish brown in color, with a circular or elliptical outline; when 

 expanded, the larger ones are about 1 mm in diameter. The under surfaces of the fins, siphon, 

 head, änd arms have fewer and smaller spots, and are, therefore, lighter colored, and appear 

 nearly white when these spots are contracted.« 



I. Verrills 1. Maßtabelle die Maßangaben in Zoll. 



n. Die Weibchen aus Verrill's 2. Maßtabelle; die Maß 



i n g a b e n in Zoll. 



IM'clfer, Die Cephalopoden. F. a. 



