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the arms. ‘The large type specimen shows no colour but a smaller 
example exhibits the same peculiar large chocolate coloured 
chromatophores distinguishing M *4°°, which is further charac- 
terized by a hard dried-up body with ventral furrow, narrow 
mantle opening, and siphon extending one-third of the distance to 
margin of web between ventral arms and having its apex above 
the line of the eyes. Surface smooth, colour slate-blue! above 
with large chromatophores at sides, paler beneath and freckled 
with minute dots and paler large chromatophores. Funnel organ 
W-shaped. 
Principal measurements :— 
mm. 
End of body to eye a = ot gt 30 
Eye to umbrella 5 se c seas 
Breadth of body s - : sift neo 
fe ., head x ee re 17 
End of body to ventral mantle. ee Lease 
Ist right arm Se oe i Peed 10) 
2nd ,, + aes sar ae en 60 
Brdee ne A ae ae sin 57 
4th ” ” iets tere : Rte 50 
FSevlete ms, ee 358 i 00 
2nd ,, o ne sf a. ae 
ards, 35 va Be aete5 0 
4th _,, 7 - a 57 
Diameter of largest sucker te ‘ge 2 
Distribution.—52° 59’ 30” S., 73° 33’ 30” W., 75 fathoms. 
Tyfe.—In British Museum, two males (one immature) and 
two immature females. 
Polypus januarii (Steenstrup). 
Octopus -januarii, ‘‘Steenstrup, MS.,’’ Hoyle, Diagnoses 1, p. 229; 
Prelim. Rep., p. 105 (1885); ‘ Challenger’ Rep., XVI (Cephalopoda), 
pp- 97°98, pl. 7, figs. 1-4 (1886) ; Octopus ganuarit, Goodrich, Trans. 
Linn. Soc. Zool., 2, VII, part 1, p. 19 (1896): Polypus januari, 
Hoyle, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., XLII, p. 18, pl. 5. fig. 2 (1904a) ; 
Berry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., p. 392 (1912). 
M *15 ‘Investigator’ station 222: 21-xii-1896, Andaman Sea, B39 0.27- Nes 
93° 14’ 30” E., 405 fathoms—One 2°. 
M £111 ‘Investigator’ station 332: 12-iv-1904, 10° 21’ N., 92° 46’ 15" E, 
279 fathoms—One @. 
M fee ‘Investigator’ station 297 : 13-iv-1902, Gulf of Oman, 25° 11' 30" 
N., 57° 15’ E., 689-700 fathoms—One <. 
M 2845 ‘Investigator’ station 343: 19-x-1904, Gulf of Oman, 23° 46' 15" 
N., 58° 31’ 50” E., 609 fathoms—One 2. 
These are all characterized by a round body of very soft con- 
sistency, etlormous eyes, and arms of from three and a half to five 
times the length of the ventral mantle. The arms are not so long 
in proportion to the body asin Hoyle’s description, but this is a 
character depending much on preservation. The first and second 
pairs seem to be always longer than the others, and slightly thicker 



| This tint seems like a deposit over a reddish-brown colour. 
