NO. 2335. NEW CEPHALOPODS FROM WESTERN ATLANTIC— BERRY. 297 



Genus SANDALOPS Chun, 1906. 



SANDALOPS PATHOPSIS, new species. 



Plate 16, fig. 1. 



Diagnosis.— A minute cranchiid with an elongate, cylindro-conic, 

 almost taoniform body, tapering at first gradually, then more rapidly 

 to a point between the fins. Texture of mantle membranous, the 

 gladius evident as a distinct hyaline streak along the dorsum. Fins 

 minute, each subcircular and about as broad as long; strongly con- 

 stricted at base, where they are distinctly separated by the hyaline 

 conus. 



Head roughly quadrangular, strongly compressed dorso-ventrally; 

 in front passing into a stocky but well-developed columnar snout. 

 Eyes large, strongly constricted just below the oval bulbus; their 

 transparent stalks enormously elongate, the entire apparatus per- 

 haps four times as long as the snout and often grotesquely contorted. 

 A subcircular brownish body nearly covering the ventral end of each 

 bulbus is possibly the photogenic organ. Funnel large, when ex- 

 tended reaching a trifle past the base of the eyestalks. 



Arms practically vestigial throughout, bearing hardly more than 

 a single pair of suckers each; ventral arms and their suckers scarcely 

 distinguishable. 



Tentacles long, stout; their clubs minute, hardly expanded and 

 only very weakly keeled. Suckers on club small, in four rows, yet 

 relatively few in number owing to the minute dimensions of the club ; 

 passing into a two-rowed condition on the carpus, they continue in 

 rather widely spaced pairs to the base of the stalk. 



Total length, about 15.5 mm.; length of mantle (dorsal), 8 mm. 



Type.— Cat. No. 338696, U.S.N.M. [S.S.B.624]. 



Type locality.— nOO-0 m.. Station 10166, latitude 32° 33' N., lon- 

 gitude 72° 14' W.; January 30, 1914. 



Remarks. — There are six specimens of this most absurd appearing 

 little cephalopod in the collection, all very constant in the characters 

 described. From Chun's strange S. melancholicus, the type of the 

 genus, they differ in the conspicuously longer eyestalks, more regu- 

 larly oval eyes, decidedly elongate and tapering body, and the pres- 

 ence of weak keels on the tentacle clubs. Possibly none is mature. 



SANDALOPS ECTHAMBUS, new species. 



Plate 16, fig. 2. 



Diagnosis. — A cranchiid of small size, with an elongate, more or 

 less inflated, cylindro-conic body, tapering at first graduafly, then 

 more rapidly, to a point between the fins. Texture of mantle mem- 

 branous, the gladius evident as a yellowish streak in the mediodorsal 

 line. Fins rather small, each probably subcircular and about as 



