248 A. EF. Verrill—Mollusca of the New England Coast. 
alcohol the expanded distal portion of the dorsal arms were very 
badly shriveled. The color of this example, in alcohol, was deep 
purplish brown above, paler beneath, the chromatophores being most 
crowded on the upper surface and having a tendency to be arranged 
so as to form small ocellated spots or cireles, which, however, were 
not very distinct in the preserved specimen. 
Octopus piscatorum Verrill. 
American Journ, Sci., vol. xviii, p. 470, 1879; these Transactions, vol. v, p. 377, 
pl. 36, figs. 1, 2, 1881. 
A good specimen of this species was taken by the Albatross at 
station 2035, in 1362 fathoms, 
Previously all the specimens known had been received from the 
Gloucester fishermen, who had taken them on the banks off Nova 
Scotia and Newfoundland. 
Eledone verrucosa Verrill. 
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. viii, p. 105, pls. 5 and 6, 1881; these Transactions, 
vol. v, p. 380, pls. 52 and 53, 1881. 
A large male was taken by the Fish Hawk in 1882, at station 1123, 
off Nantucket, in 787 fathoms. It was taken in 1883 by the Alba- 
tross at station 2050, in 1050 fathoms; station 2051, in 1106 fathoms ; 
station 2077, in 1255; station 2102, in 1209 fathoms. 
The male, from station 1123, which is larger than the one orig- 
inally described, had lost the left arms of the 1st and 2d pairs; the 
former was in process of being reproduced in the form of a small, 
conical, white process, with a small row of minute suckers. 
The body, while still living, was provided with a fold of skin 
along the sides and around the posterior end; the back was covered 
with small papille, not very distinct while living, and not so large 
as in the original specimens. The arms were nearly smooth. The 
lower eyelid was papillose and dark purple in color. The web be- 
tween the arms, while living, was broader than described in the 
original examples; the marginal membrane extended to the tips of 
the arms, and was broadest on the ventral side, so that the tips of the 
arms were strongly curled by the contraction of the membrane. The 
hectocotylized arm bears but thirty-nine suckers proximal to the 
modified tip; the papilla at the base of the modified tip is prom- 
inent, conical, with a white groove; the terminal appendage is 
crossed by about seven faint transverse folds. The color was dark 
purplish brown, with obscure roundish lighter spots on the dorsal 
