248 A. M Verrill—3I(AlHSca of the New Ertfjland Coast. 



alcoliol tlie expanded distal portion of the dorsal arms were very 

 badly shriveled. The color of this example, in alcohol, was deejj 

 purplish brown above, paler beneath, the chromatophores being most 

 crowded on the upper surface and having a tendency to be arranged 

 so as to form small ocellated spots or circles, which, however, were 

 not very distinct in the preserved specimen. 



Octopus piscatorum Verrill. 



American Joiirn. Sci., vol. xviii, p. 470, IStS; these Transactions, vol. v, p. 377, 

 pi. 36, figs. 1, 2, 1881. 



A good specimen of this species was taken by the Albatross at 

 station 2035, in 1362 fathoms. 



Previously all the specimens known had been received from the 

 Gloucester fishermen, who had taken them on the banks off Nova 

 Scotia and Newfoundland. 



Eledone verrucosa v^erriu. 



Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, vol. viii, p. 105, pis. 5 and 6, 1881; these Transactions, 

 vol. V, p. 380, pis. 52 and 53, 1881. 



A large male was taken by the Fish Hawk in 1882, at station 1123, 

 off Nantucket, in 787 fathoms. It was taken in 1883 by the Alba- 

 tross at station 2050, in 1050 fathoms; station 2051, in 1106 fathoms; 

 station 2077, in 1255; station 2102, in 1209 fathoms. 



The male, from station 1123, which is larger than the one orig- 

 inally described, had lost the left arms of the 1st and 2d pairs; the 

 former was in process of being reproduced in the form of a small, 

 conical, white process, with a small row of minute suckers. 



The body, while still living, was provided with a fold of skin 

 along the sides and around the posterior end ; the back was covered 

 with small papilUe, not very distinct while living, and not so large 

 as in the original specimens. The arms were nearly smooth. The 

 lower eyelid was papillose and dark purple in color. The web be- 

 tween the arms, while living, was broader than described in the 

 original examples ; the marginal membrane extended to the tips of 

 the arms, and was broadest on the ventral side, so that the tips of the 

 arms were strongly curled by the contraction of the membrane. The 

 hectocotylized arm bears but thirty-nine suckers proximal ,to the 

 modified tip; the papilla at the base of the modified tip is prom- 

 inent, conical, Avith a white groove; the terminal appendage is 

 crossed by about seven faint transverse folds. The color was dark 

 purplish brown, with obscure roundish lighter spots on the dorsal 



