[635] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. d41 
is 84™ long, exclusive of the arms; the body is 72"™ long, 15" broad ; 
the caudal fin is 25™" long and 36™™ broad. 
A fresh specimen, caught in Casco Bay, had the following propor: 
tions: Length of head and body, not including the arms, 221"; length 
of caudal fin, 86"; breadth of fin, 90™ ; diameter of body, 35"; 
length of upper arms, 80" ; of second pair, 100"; of third pair, 100"™™ ; 
of extensile arms, 182"; of the ventral pair, 90"™. 
Greenport, Long Island, (Sanderson Smith) ; Newport, Rhode Island ; 
Provincetown, Massachusetts ; Casco Bay ; Mount Desert, Maine; Bay 
of Fundy. 
Ommastrephes Bartramii (Lesueur, sp.) is found in the Gulf Stream off 
our coasts, and may sometimes occur accidentally on our shores. It is 
a more slender and elongated species than the preceding, with a rela- 
tively shorter caudal fin. It is also darker colored. The figure given 
by Binney in the last edition of Gould’s Invertebrata of Massachusetts 
(Plate 25, fig. 540) does not represent this species. 
LOLIGO PEALII Lesueur. Plate XX, figs. 102-105. (p. 440.) 
Journal Acad. Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, vol. ii, p. 92, Pl. 8, 1821; Dekay, 
Natural History of New York, Mollusca, p. 4, Pl. 33, fig. 354 (copied from 
Lesueur); Binney, in Gould’s Invertebrata of Mass., ed. ii, p. 514 (PI. 
25, fig. 340,) probably represents this species, certainiy not O. Bartramii.) 
South Carolina to Massachusetts Bay. Very commonin Long Island 
Sound and Vineyard Sound. 
The young, from an inch to two inches in length, were taken from the 
middle of July to the last of August in great numbers, at the surface, 
in Vineyard Sound, by Mr. Vinal N. Edwards. 
LOLIGO PUNCTATA Dekay. 
Natural History of New York, Mollusca, p. 3, Pl. I, fiz. 1, 1843; Binney, in 
Gould’s Invertebrata of Mass., ed. ii, p. 513. 
This is probably identical with the preceding species. The slight 
differences noticed are probably sexual, but as I have not been able to 
fully satisfy myself in regard to this, I have not thought it proper to 
unite them at this time. 
Long Island Sound. 
LOLIGO PALLIDA Verrill, sp. nov. Plate XX, figs. 101, 10la. (p. 441.) 
Body stout, tapering rapidly backward. Anterior border of mantle 
with a prominent, obtusely rounded, median dorsal lobe, from which the 
margin recedes on each side; on the lower side the margin is'concave 
in the middle, with a projecting angle on each side. Caudal fin large, 
about as broad as long, more than half as long as the body. Siphon 
large and stout; upper pair of arms considerably smaller and shorter 
than the others, slender at tips, margined along the inner dorsal ridge 
with a thin membrane. Second pair of arms stouter and longer, trique- 
tral, slightly margined on the outer angle. Third pair much stouter and 
considerably longer, with a membranous fold along the middle of the 
