l:;i) CIBROTEVTHIS. TREMOCTOPl S. 



Genus CIRROTEUTHIS, Eschricht. 



C. MIIJ.KKI. Kschr. PI. 4-2. tigs. 72-75. 



Body smooth, purse-shaped, with medial and dorsal lateral 

 expansions or fins, head narrower, with very small eyes ; arms 

 equal, united almost to their ends by a thin web. which is so 

 ample as to form a sort of pouch between each ; about thirty 

 small suckers in a single row on each arm, with a pair of filiform 

 cirri between each sucker. Color violet. 



Length of animal, 250 mill.; of body, 80 mill.; of arms, 110 



mill. 



Greenland. 



Family II. TREMOCTOPl D-K. 



Genus TBEMOCTOPUS, Chiaje. 



T. ATLANTJCUS. Orb. PL 42. figs. 7<>, 77. 



Body smooth, roundish, large ; head moderate, smooth ; eyes 

 large, without lids; aqueous pores two; arms slender, unequal. 

 in order 1. 2. 4. 3; not webbed except at base. White spotted 

 with red. 



Habits nod urnal. Pelagic. 



Di tiers from T. Quoyanux by the want of membranes between 

 the superior arms, and of the lower aquiferous pores. It is 

 certainly not adult, and may be the young of T. Quoyanux as 

 d'Orbigny suggests. 



Total length. 15 mill.; of body. 4 mill.; length of arms 1, 10 



mill.: 2. 5 mill.; 4, 3 mill.; 3. 1 mill. 



Tropical Atlantic Ocean. 



T. MicitosToMrs. Regn. PI. 42. tig. 7<S. 



Body rounded, large, smooth, reddish ; head broad ; eyes very 

 prominent; arms smooth, short, not webbed; order of length 

 1,2.4.3. 



Total length. 22 mill. 



Trocchel * considers (). /vV/V///rr/. Verany (PL 43. fig. 79), the 

 female of this species. D'Orbigny thinks it the same as T. Atlan- 

 //r//s above. 



;: " Arcliiv. f, 44, 1857. 



