[ 183 ] CEPHALOPODS OF NORTHEASTERN COAST OF AMERICA.' 
Family OCTOPODIDH3 D’Qrbigny. 
Octopodidw (pars) D’Orbigny, Moll.Viv. ct Fos., i, pp. 159, 164, 1845 (t. Gray); (pars) 
C6plial. Ac6tab., p. 3. 
Octopidm Gray. Catal. Moll. Brit. Mus., i, p. 4,1849. 
Head very large; external ears, small, simple openings, behind the 
eyes. Body short, thick, rounded posteriorly, destitute of lateral tins and 
internal cartilages. Mantle united to the head by a broad dorsal com¬ 
missure. No complex connective cartilages, nor commissures, uniting 
the mantle and base of siphon. Opening to gill-cavity narrow. 
Siphon large. Arms with either one or two rows of suckers, ami 
with a more or less developed basal web. Eyes furnished with an inter¬ 
nal translucent lid and also capable of being covered by the external 
integument. Sexes similar externally, except that in the male the right 
arm of the third pair is hectocotylized by the formation of a spoon-shaped 
organ at the tip. 
ELEDONE Leach. 
Octopus (pars) Lamarck; Cuvier; Blainville,etc. 
Eledone Leach, Zool. Misc., iii, 137,1817 (t. Gray); D’Orbig., C6plial. Ac6tab., p. 72 (sub¬ 
genus) ; Gray, Catal. Moll. Brit. Mus., i, p. 21,1849. 
Body, mantle, and siphon as in Octopus. Suckers in a single row on 
all the arms. In the male the right arm of the third pair is hectocoty¬ 
lized by the formation of a small spoon-shaped tip and a lateral groove, 
nearly as in some species of Octopus. 
Eledone verrucosa Verrill. 
Bulletin Mus. Comp. Zool., viii, p. 105, plates 5, 6, March, 1881; Trans. Coun. 
Acad., v, p. 380, pi. 52, 53,1881. 
Plate XLIV, figs. 3, 3a. 
A stout species, covered above with prominent, rough, wart-like tuber¬ 
cles, and with a circle of the same around the eyes; four or five of 
those above the eyes are larger and more prominent. Body thick, broad- 
ovate, swollen beneath, moderately convex above, obtusely rounded 
posteriorly. 
Male: Head as broad as the body, whole upper surface of body and 
head to base of arms covered with prominent and persistent, unequal 
warts, which are roughened by sharp conical papillae, eight or ten on 
the larger warts, but only two or three on the smaller ones; the warts 
diminish in size anteriorly, and on the sides, before they disappear; 
around the eyes they form irregular circles; just above each of the eyes 
there are two much larger ones, bearing more than twenty conical pa¬ 
pillae; there is one before and one behind these, of somewhat smaller 
size. Eyes large, the lower lid purple and thickened, overlapping the 
upper one, which is thin and whitish. 
Arms considerably longer than the head and body, not very stout, 
compressed, bearing a single crowded row of large whitish suckers, 
