[ 191 ] CEPHALOPODS OF NORTHEASTERN COAST OF AMERICA. 
Octopus Bairdii —Continued. 
Lot. 
Locality. 
Fath¬ 
oms. 
Bottom. 
When 
collected. 
Specimens. 
Gloucester Fisheries. 
VESSEL. 
1879-’80. 
264 
42° 49' N. lat. ; 62° 57' W. long.... 
250 
Marion. 
Jan. 
11. d 
351 
44° 17' 00" N.; 58° 10' 00" W. 
120 
Grace L. Fears 
June 5 
1 j.: 1 m. $ 
372 
Off Miquelon island. 
7 
Alice M. Wii- 
July — 
1 
liams. 
421 
Banquereau, off Nova Scotia. 
300 
Commonwealth 
Aug. 14 
1 m. 9 
501 
43° 14' 00" N.; 61° 07' 00" W. 
250 
Alice M. W r il- 
Oct. 9 
1 m. ? 
liams. 
721 
Grand Bank. 
Guy Cunning- 
July 8 
11-2 
ham. 
605 
771 
Off Saint Peter's Bank. 
80 
Epes Tarr_ 
July — 
1 cT: 1 ? 
792 
Aug. — 
1 1. d 
917 
11. cf 
liams. 
In the last column of this table, Z=large; j= young; m^medium sized; <£=male; 
9 =female. 
Octopus lentus Verrill. 
Verrill, Amer. Jouru. Sci., xix, p. 138, Feb., 1880; p. 294, April, 1880; Trans. 
Conn. Acad., v, p. 375, pi. 35, tigs. 1,2; pi. 51, fig. 2; Bulletin Mus. Comp. 
Zool., viii, p. 108, pi. 4, fig. 2, g . 
Plate XLIII, figures 1,2, female. Plate XLIV, figure 2, male. 
Female (type-specimen): body broad, stout, depressed, slightly emar- 
ginate at the posterior end, rather soft to the touch, and in some speci¬ 
mens gelatinous in appearance; a thin, soft, free, marginal membrane 
runs along the sides and around the posterior end of the body, becom¬ 
ing widest (about 12 mm ) posteriorly; in some of the more strongly con¬ 
tracted specimens this membrane is but little apparent. Head large, 
broad, depressed, with the eyes large and far apart; above each eye 
there is a small, simple, conical, acute, contractile cirrus. A well-de¬ 
veloped, thin web connects the arms, considerably above their bases, 
and then runs up to the tips as a broad margin to each arm. 
The arms are rather large, stout at base, with a broad inner face, and 
taper gradually to very slender tips; the first and third pairs are nearly 
equal in length; those of the second are also about equal in length to 
the fourth pair, but are some what shorter than the first and third. The 
arms on the right side are all somewhat longer than the corresponding 
ones on the left. The arms, measuring from the beak, are more than 
twice as long as the body. The suckers are arranged in two distinct 
rows, to the base. 
Color of head and body, above, and of body, beneath, deep reddish- 
brown, closely specked with darker brown, and with many small round¬ 
ish spots of whitish on the body and arms. 
Length of the type-specimen (female) from the beak to end of body, 
not including marginal web, C0 mm ; breadth of web, 22; total length, 194; 
breadth of body, 40; breadth of head across eyes, 32; of eye-openings, 
10; of eye-balls, 17; length of mantle, beneath, 38; length of first pair 
