400 A. E. Verrill — Mollusca of the Nevi England Coast. 



arms are wanting. Color, in alcohol, orange-hrown, due to nnmerous 

 purple and brown specks scattered pretty uniformly over the surface, 

 both above and below; the outer portions of the fins appear to have 

 been transparent ; the surface of the body appears to have been 

 entirely smooth and destitute of tubercles, although the specimen is so 

 much injured as to make this a little uncertain. 



Length of body to front edge of mantle, 44"'"' ; length of free 

 caudal portion, 6"'™ ; length of the attachment of fin, 34""" ; from 

 front margin of fin to mantle edge, 3-5""» ; breadth across fins, 56'"'" ; 

 length of head, from dorsal cartilage to base of dorsal arms, 19"""; 

 length of dorsal arms, 24"""; diameter at base, 3 •5'""' ; diameter of 

 lateral arms, 4'""\ . 



A single mutilated specimen (No. 40,128) was taken at station 

 2235, in Y07 fathoms, 1884. 



This species closely resembles A. Veranyi, recorded from the 

 Indian Ocean, but it apparently differs from the latter in having 

 larger fins and in being destitute of the rows of tubercles on the man- 

 tle ; the arras also appear to ditfer in their proportions. 



Teleoteuthis (Onychia) agilis Vemii, sp. nov. 



Plate XLII, figures 2, 2a. 



Body elongated, rather slender, with a rather small caudal fin^ 

 which is confined to about the posterior third of the body, and has a 

 transversely rhombic form, with rounded angles and margins, the 

 posterior edge is continuous across the end of the body, without any 

 notch, and united to the body to its extreme tip. The dorsal mantle- 

 edge is cut nearly square across, with only a faint angle in the 

 middle ; below each eye thei'e is a somewhat prominent angle and 

 the ventral side is regularly concave. The head is moderately large 

 and the eyes are not very prominent. The arms are relatively long, 

 prismatic, nearly equal in size and length, but the dorsal ones are 

 somewhat shorter than the others. The third pair of arms are com- 

 pressed and have a somewhat prominent keel on the distal half. The 

 arms bear two regular, well separated rows of moderately large, 

 suckers, largest along the middle of the arms, becoming smaller 

 proximally, and disappearing above the base. The suckers are 

 swollen in the middle and the somewhat contracted horny rim has 

 the margin entire or nearly so. The sucker-bearing face of the arms 

 is ratlicr broad and margined on each side by a narrow but distinct 

 membrane. The tentacular arms are slender, longer than the sessile 



