A, E. Verrilli— Mollusca of the New England Coast. 143 
tacular arms and three upper pairs of sessile arms yellowish white and 
opaque. Ventral arms bluish white and translucent, like the head 
and body. 
Length from tip of tail to base of dorsal arms, 74"; to anterior 
edge of mantle, 50" ; to center of eyes, 64™™ ; diameter of head 
across eyes, 8"; back of eyes, 7"; diameter of body, 5-7™™ ; length 
of caudal! fin, 23"™; its breadth in the middle, 13""; breadth across 
anterior lobes, 6™™ ; length of dorsal arms, 1i1™"; of second pair, 
14™™; of third pair, 18™™; of ventral arms, 42™"; of tentacular 
arms, 60"; diameter of dorsal arms at base, about 1™™; of third 
pair, 2™"; of ventral arms, 3™"; diameter of larger suckers, about 
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The gills and viscera are situated far forward. The gills are short, 
broad, blunt, with many crowded lamellae. The stomach has a 
short, thick, tapering, saccular appendage. ‘The liver is relatively 
large, short, rounded. Rectum slender, with two well-developed, 
spatulate anal papilla. Branchial auricles well-developed, oblong. 
The pen is very thin and delicate. 
Station 2037, in 1731 fathoms, N. latitude 38° 53’, W. longitude 
69° 23’ 30”. No. 38,242. Steamer Albatross, 1883. 
The only described species which resembles this is Loltigopsis ver- 
micolaris Rup., but the latter, if the figures can be relied upon, differs 
in its proportions. It has a still longer and more slender head, while 
its caudal fin is much larger and has a distinctly cordate outline, 
broadest across the anterior lobes, which are much larger and broadly 
rounded. It is, however, evidently congeneric with our species, and 
should be called Leptoteuthis vermicolaris. 
Our specimen has the reproductive organs but little developed, and 
is, therefore, probably immature. 
Abralia megalops Verrill. 
Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. xxiv, p. 364, 1882; Bulletin Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. xi, p. 
105, pl. 3, fig. 4, 1883 (description of young). 
PLate XXVIII, FIGURE 2. 
The following description is from the type-specimen, in alcohol. 
Small, eyes large; caudal fin, about two-thirds as long as the 
mantle, and much broader than long, transversely elliptical; 2d and 
3d pairs of arms equal; dorsal a little shorter; ventrals shortest. 
Sessile arms with two rows of hooks, which are replaced by small 
suckers on the distal third; tentacular clubs with two alternating 
rows of hooks, and with marginal suckers distally, on each side; 
