112 ocTorrs. 



O. MOLLIS, Gould. PL 31, figs. 34, 35. 



Body small, elongate ; eyes prominent, siphnncle long, 

 bulbous ; arms graceful with thirty or forty remote cupules ; 



umbrella thin, delicate, broad. Length, 3 inches. 



Samoan Isles. 



Has the characters of a young individual. 



Arms 2, 1, 3, 4, nearly equal. 

 O. ALDERI, Yerany. PL 30, fig. 31. 



Body conically elongate, posteriorly acuminate ; head small, 

 rounded ; no ocular cirri ; umbrella very small ; arms short in 

 proportion to the body, being only one-half longer, crowded 

 with about eighty cups. Color brilliantly spotted with red. 



Length, 80 mill. ; length of body, 28 mill. ; length of arms, 



2, 44 mill.; 1, 40 mill. ; 3, 38 mill. ; 4. 35 mill. 



Mediterranean. 



Has the facies of a Calamary, being very unlike any other 

 species in form. Discovered in the midst of 3 7 oung sardines. 



Arms 2, 4, 1, 3. 

 O. ORNATUS, Gld. PL 30, figs. 29, 30. 



Body subglobose ; head half the width of the body ; eyes 

 small, scarcely prominent; umbrella very small ; arms graceful, 

 attenuated, with numerous crowded cups ; skin reticulately papil- 

 lose ; yellow, with lighter stripes on the back of sack, and light 

 oval areoLv on the back of the arms ; dark brown patches and 

 mottlings distributed over the dorsal surfaces. 



Length, 2-50 in. ; length of arms, 2, 24 in. ; 4, 21 in. ; 1 and 3, 



20 in. 



Sandwich Islands. 

 Arms 1, 2, 3, 4. 



O. PUSILUJS, Gld. PL 31, figs. 32, 33. 



Body small, subglobose ; head rounded ; eyes large, protruding ; 

 arms robust, attenuated, with fifty or sixty large, crowded cups; 

 uinlnvlla large, one-third the length of the arms. 



Length. .'5 inches. 



Mangsi Isl., China Sea. 



Certainly a juvenile form. Described from specimens in al- 

 cohol. It does not seem to difl'er essentially from 0. mollis, not- 



