REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [ 94 ] 
Off the coast of Rhode Island to Cumberland Gulf. Abundant from 
Cape Cod to Newfoundland. About 100 miles south of Newport, R. I., 
in 65 to 372 fathoms (U. S. Fish Com.). Vineyard Sound, Massachu¬ 
setts, rare, large in winter, small in May (V. N. Edwards). 
Recent explorations have extended the range of this species much 
farther southward, in the deep water near the edge of the Gulf Stream- 
Although we cannot be certain that specimens caught in the trawl were 
living at the bottom, owing to the possibility of their entering it during 
its ascent, it is very probable that they do actually inhabit those depths. 
This is rendered more certain by the fact that we found adult speci¬ 
mens in the stomachs of fishes (Lophius) taken at stations 865 and 893. 
The most southern specimens known were taken by Mr. A. Agassiz, on 
the “Blake,” off Cape Hatteras, in 263 fathoms. 
Ommasirejjhes illecebrosus.—Specimens examined. 
Number. 
Locality. 
W lec7ed C . 01 ' Received from 
10280 . 
1872. 
United States Fish 
Commission. 
10027 .1 
Nov. 2,1876.. 
10027 K 
10027, L . 
M. 
Mav, 1876 ... 
W. 
July, 1879 ... 
United States Fish 
Commission. 
Oct. 25,1873 . 
1878. 
. 
United States Fish 
Commission. 
s. T. IT . 
1873. 
X. 
Off Seguin Island, Mo. (50 fath¬ 
oms). 
1879. 
(Lot. 517) United 
States Fish Com¬ 
mission. 
1860 . 
1873 (loc. 21). 
1870. 
United States Fish 
Commission. 
9G93, G. 
9G93 H I . 
9693! R. 
D. E.F. 
N.O.P. 
1872. 
United States Fish 
Commission. 
J. R. Willis.. 
J. M. Jones.. 
10028 .. 
10278, Q. 
L. Kumlein.. 
1880. 
865. 
North latitude 40° 05'; west lon¬ 
gitude 70° 23' (65 fathoms). 
North latitude 39° 52' 20"; west 
longitude 70° 58' (372 fathoms). 
North latitude 35° 45' 30"; west 
longitude 74° 48' (263 fathoms). 
893 . 
Commission. 
CCCXXXII. 
“Blake” expedition. 
Specimens. 
No., sex. 
1 young. 
1 <f, left band. 
1 ?• 
1 ?• 
1 cf, right hand, 
lcf, figured. 
9 cf. 
5 $. 
3 young. 
28 +, duplicates. 
1 $• 
1 young. 
3 <?. 
1 $ young. 
50 -f, large. 
1 mutilated. 
1 $, large. 
2 d\ left hand. 
1 cf i right hand. 
3 large. 
3 $. ‘ 
1 young. 
Do. 
1 2, large. 
Do. 
1 mutilated. 
1 adult. 
Do. 
3 $, adult. 
Several of the smaller specimens included in this list are so young that 
it is impossible to determine their sex with certainty without dissection. 
The hectocotylization of the ventral arm iu the male is scarcely recog¬ 
nizable in those with the mantle less than 4 inches long. 
The Mediterranean form (Ommastrephes Coindetii Verany), usually 
identified with the var. b of Loligo sagittata Lamarck, 1799,* is closely 
* It seems more probable, however, that Lamarck’s description applied rather to 0. 
Bariramii (Les. sp.) of the Gulf Stream region. Blainville and others have thus ap¬ 
plied it, correctly, as I believe. 
