[13] FAUNA OF OUTER BANKS, VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 653 



from 317 fathoms ; and several of Nymplion Strdmii, from 234 to 640 

 fathoms. 



Crustacea* were much less abundant than in previous years, but great 

 numbers of large shirmp, Pandalus leptocerus and P. propinquus, occurred, 

 the latter inhabiting the deeper waters, 158 to 640 fathoms. Cancer 

 borealis was frequent in 90 to 194 fathoms. Among the more interesting 

 species were Oeryon quinquedens, taken in considerable numbers and of 

 large size, at stations 1140 to 1143, in 322 to 452 fathoms ; Lithodes maia, 

 at station 1125, in 291 fathoms; Pentacheles sculptus Smith, one large, 

 at station 1140, in 374 fathoms ; Ceraphikts Agassizii S., several times, 

 in 291 to 640 fathoms j Sahinea princeps S., station 1140 and 1143, in 374 

 to 452 fathoms ; Boreomysis tridens, in 351 fathoms; Hippolyte Liljeborgiif 

 frequent in 144 to 640 fathoms ; Janira spinosa Harger, in 640 fathoms ; 

 Astacilla grantilata (Sars) H., in 291 to 640 fathoms. 



Many of the other species formerly taken also occurred. Several new 

 species were also added to the fauna; among these are two fine species 

 allied to Munida. 



Of Cephalopods,t besides the usual forms, we took one new species,| 

 belonging to the genus Abralia of Gray, a genus not known from the 

 American coast before. A living specimen of the Argonauta argo was 

 caught in a dip-net while swimming at the surface, by Dr. Kite. This was 

 taken about 100 miles south of the eastern end of Long Island. We took 

 a fine large specimen of Eledone verrucosa V., in about 700 fathoms (sta- 

 tion 1123) ; and the second known example of the large Bossia megaptera 

 v., in 640 fathoms (station 1124), the first one having been taken from 

 a halibut's stomach at the Grand Banks. 



*The Crustacea of 1880 were enumerated and described by Prof. S. I. Smith, in Proc. 

 Nat. Mus., iii, pp. 413-452, 1880. Some of those of 1881 are included by him in his re- 

 port on the "Blake Crustacea," Bulletin Mus. Comp. Zool., pp. 1-108 (16 plates), 

 June, 1882. The more difficult species here enumerated were identified by Professor 

 Smith. 



t The Cephalopods of this region have mostly been described and figured by the 

 author in Vol. VII of these reports, 1882, and Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. V. 



t AbraUamegaIoj)8,YerTill. — 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 littler shorter ; ventrals shortest. Sessile arms with two rows of hooks, 

 which are repl aced by small suckers on the distal third ; tentacular clubs with two alter- 

 nating rows of hooks, and with marginal suckers distally, on each side, alternating 

 with the median hooks, and with proximal and terminal groups of smaller suckers. 

 Color pale, with numerous small dark brown chromatophores above, larger and more 

 crowded on the head and bases of arms ; lower side with several larger, round, sym- 

 metrically placed, purplish-brown spots and with minute ones between them. Length 

 of mantle, 15°^™; diameter of body, 7°"" ; lengthof fin, 11™"; breadth across fins, 18°"° ; 

 breadth of head, 7""° ; diameter of eye, 4.5"™ ; length of dorsal arms, 13°"° ; length of 

 second pair, 14™°'; of third pair, 14™™; of tentacular arms, 25™™; of ventral arms, 

 10"™. Probably this specimen is young. Described from alcohol. 



