542 Verrill and Bush — Marine Mollusca of the Bermudas. 



The second, which is smaller and much less common, is 0. Ber- 

 niifdensis Hoyle (Challenger Report, xvi, p. 94, pi. ii, fig. 5=0. chro- 

 matus Heilprin, The Bermudas, pi. 15, fig. l). It has very long slender 

 arms, with a narrow basal web, and is very active. When living, its 

 colors are bright and very changeable, but there are four or more 

 larger round blue spots on its back which do not disappear. 



Some of the native fishermen call it the "grass scuttle," and 

 designate the common one as the " rock scuttle," by way of dis- 

 tinction. 



Mr. G. Brown Goode obtained a very large squid, which was cast 

 ashore at Bermuda in 1876, This was described and figured in 1880 

 and 1882* as Sthenoteuthis pteropus =z Ommastrephes pteropus 

 Steenstrup (?). 



The Yale party, in 1898, secured one living specimen of another 

 squid. It was captured in Bailey Bay, while swimming slowly at 

 the surface. It appears to be Sepioteuthis sepioidea d'Orb., which 

 was also taken at Bermuda by Goode and recorded in 1880 and 

 1882 by Verrill (op. cit.), but it has not appeared in later lists. 



* Verrill, these Trans., v, p. 228, pi. 2v, figs. 7, 7«, pi. 36, figs. 5-9, 1880 ; 

 Eeport U. S. Fish Com. for 1879 (pp. 107-111 of separata), pi. vii, fig. 2, pi. 

 xvii, figs. 3-9, 1883. 



