NO. 1713. NEW CEPHAL0P0D8 FROM PACIFIC OCEAN— BERRY. 



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body, thin, slightly broader and longer than the body; anterior mar- 

 gin rounded and reaching to the eyes; posterior margin obtusely 

 pointed, extending beyond the body. 



Head very large, short and wide. Eyes large, situated in the angle 

 of the mantle-margin above the anterior ventral lobe. 



Sessile arms short, connected by a well-developed basal web reach- 

 ing beyond the middle of the dorsal arms, but entirely absent between 

 the ventral pair; order of length .3, 4, 2, 1, the third pair much the 

 stoutest and longest and with the largest suckers; suckers small, 

 pedunculated, in two rows. 



Tentacles longer than the body, slightly thickened at the base, 

 very slender and tapering; tentacular club but little, if any, wider 

 than the stalk, armed with 



of 



very 



numerous rows 

 minute suckers. 



Gladius not observed ; 

 probably absent as in S. 

 leucoptera. 



Color in alcohol a dirty 

 white ; fins unmarked ; man- 

 tle closely speckled above 

 and below with small 

 brownish chromatopliores 

 of two main sizes, which 

 decrease in number later- 

 ally and posteriorly; chro- 

 matophores evenly and 

 thickly distributed over the 

 ventral heart-shaped area 

 and its immediate vicinity ; 

 ventral surface further 

 marked by a dark bluish- 

 gray band bordering the heart-shaped area, 

 white; arms uniformly of a dirty white. 



Upon the reverse of the label accompanying the specimen appear 

 the following notes in the handwriting of Dr. W. K. Fisher, as to the 

 color of the animal when taken (colors according to Ridgway's 

 "Nomenclature of Color"): 



Tentacles, chromatophores burnt sienna, yellow ochre, and light red. Eye: pupil 

 transparent, ii-idescent purple, blue, and emerald green; iris reddish burnt sienna. 

 Body (except wings and outer test) iridescent orange, yellow, solferino, green, 

 crimson, purple. Chromatophores of outer test burnt sienna and sepia. 



The unique type was taken in 153 fathoms, from a bottom of 

 brown mud and sand, at station 3832, off the south coast of the island 

 of Molokai. Its measurements are: Length of body, excluding ten- 

 tacles 16 mm.; length of tentacles 21 mm.; width across fins 18 mm. 



Fig. 3.— Stoloteuthis IRIS. Dorsal aspect. (x3) 



Eyes dark gray, pupils 



