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RossiA C?) TENERA (Verrill). 



Hcteroteuthis tenera, Verrill (1880). 

 Eossia {] ) tenera, Hoyle (1886). 



H. M. S. Challenger, Station 49 (May 20, 1873), south of Halifax, Nova. 

 Scotia, 85 fathoms, gravel and stones ; one specimen. 



{Rossia megaptera., Verrill, has been taken off the southern coast of New- 

 foundland, in 150 fathoms; but not yet, so far as the writer can learn, in 

 the seas of eastern Canada.) 



OCTOPODA. 



Family Octopodida. 

 Ocropus ARCTicus, Prosch. 



Octopus arcticus, Prosch (18491 ; fide Norman (1890). 

 Octopus Bairdii, Verrill (187.3). 



Taken by the TJ. S. Fish Commission, in 1872, off Grand Manan Islazid, 

 in 97--100 fathoms, and at three localities in the Bay of Fundy, in 60-80 

 fathoms; also in 1887, thirty miles off Cape Sable, N.S , in 91 fathoajs, and 

 twenty-three miles off Halifax, in 101 fathoms. "The Gloucester fishermen 

 have brought in several specimens from the banks of Nova Scotia and New- 

 foundland " (Verrill; Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sc, vol. v., pp. 370 and 

 371). 



Octopus piscatorum, Verrill. 



1879. Amer. Journ. Sc. and Arts, Third Series, vol. xvni., p. 470. 

 1881. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sc. , vol. v. , p. 378. 



" Le Have Bank, Nova Scotia, in 120 fathoms, taken by Captain John 

 McTnnis and crew, of the schooner M. H. Perkins, October, 1879," and 

 presented to the U. 8. Fish Commission (Verrill; op. cit., p. 378). One 

 female. 



Octopus obesus, Verrill. 



1880. Amer. Journ. Sc. and Arts, Third Series, vol. xix., p. 137. 

 1381. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sc, vol. v., p. 379. 



" Taken from the stomach of a halibut, 36 miles east from the N.E. Light 

 of Sable Island, in 160 to 300 fathoms, by Charles Ruckley, of the schooner 

 H. A. Duncan, and presented by him to the U. S. Fish Commission, 1879. 

 "A smaller, mutilated specimen was also taken from the stomach of a hali- 

 but, from Banquereau, off N.S., in 150 fathoms, (lot 678) and presented to 

 the U. S. Fish Commission, by Captain Charles Markuson and crew, of the 



