[ 173 ] CEPHALOPODS OF NORTHEASTERN COAST OF AMERICA. 
Eossia sublev is —Continued. 
Locality. 
Vi 
United States Fish Comm ission. 
Off Martha's Vineyard. 
924 
925 
939 
943 
945 
946 
947 
951 
952 
997 
1025 
1026 
1028 
1029 
1032 
1033 
1045 
S. i W. 831 m. from Gay Head. 
S. \ W. 86 m. from Gay Head.. 
S- by E. £ E. 98 m. from Gay 
Head. 
SSW. 83 m. from Gay Head... 
S. by W. I W. 84£ m. from Gay 
Head. 
S. by W. | W. 87£ m. from Gay 
Head. 
S. by W. i W. 89 m. from Gay 
Head. 
S. 85 m. from Gay Head. 
S. i E. 87£ m. from Gay Head. 
SSW. I W. 1031 m. from Gay 
Head. 
SSW. i W. 95 m. from Gay 
Head. 
SSW. i W. 93J m. from Gay 
Head. 
SSE. J E. 108J m. from Gay 
nead. 
SSE. J E. 109£ m. from Gay 
Head. 
SSE. | E. 107 m. from Gay 
Head. 
SSE. £ E. 106 m. from Gay 
Head. 
Off Delaware Bay. 
Fath. 
Bottom. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Received 
from— 
1881. 
160 
July 16 
U. S. F.C. 
224 
_do. 
258 
Aug. 4 
153 
Aug. 9 
202 
Aug. 9 
-do. 
241 
Aug. 9 
_do. 
312 
Aug. 9 
219 
Aug. 23 
388 
335 
216 
182 
Sept. 8 
-do. 
410 
Sept. 14 
_do ..... 
458 
....do . 
208 
Sept. 14 
183 
312 
Mud. 
Oct. 10 
-do. 
Specimens, num¬ 
ber and sex. 
11.?: eggs. 
21 . e 
19: eggs. 
11. cT: 4 ? 
2 d: 3 ? 
6 
5 cf: 2 9 
2 9 
1 cf 
3 9 
2 9 
11. cf 
1 j- 
5 
1 j-: eggs. 
31. cf: 1 j. 
Rossia megaptera Verrill. 
Trans. Conn. Acad., v, p. 349, pi. 38, fig. 1, pi. 46, fig. 6, June, 1881. 
Plate XXXY, figures 3, 4. 
Body short, broad, depressed, covered with a soft flabby integument, 
which forms a loose border posteriorly; the front edge of the mantle ex¬ 
tends forward dorsally into a prominent angle, but recedes very much ven- 
trally. Fins very large and broad; their anterior insertions being but 
little back of the antero lateral edge of the mantle, and their posterior 
insertion close to the end of the body; the free borders of the fins are 
thiu and undulated, extending forward anteriorly beyond the edge of 
the mantle, while the length, from base to outer edge, is about equal to 
the breadth of the back between the bases of the fins. 
Head very large and broad, the width exceeding that of the body. 
Eyes very large and prominent; lower eyelids well developed but not 
much thickened. Tentacles remarkably long and slender, in extension 
about twiqe as loug as the head and body together. The tentacular 
club is somewhat thicker than the rest of the arm, rather long, narrow, 
tapering to the tip, and covered with numerous minute, nearly globular, 
sleuder pedicelled suckers, arranged in many rows. (Plate XXXY, fig. 
4,«,&,c.) 
Sessile arms of moderate length; rounded, very slender at tip; the 
1st, 2d, and 3d pairs are successively longer, while the ventral pair 
is about equal to the 1st. Suckers rather small, nearly globular, ar¬ 
ranged in two rows on all the arms (fig. 4, a). The suckers are all sim¬ 
ilar, but are a little larger on the 3d pair of arms. The margin is sur- 
