292 A. E. Verrill — North American (Jephatopods. 



arms are long and slendei-, with broader clubs, which bear a large 

 number of minute suckers, much like the outer ones of the arms, 

 arranged in many crowded rows, some of which extend beyond the 

 club along the arm; in the middle (filg. \b) there is usually one or two 

 larger suckers (absent in our specimen) in which the horny ring has a 

 small aperture and is developed into a large hook-shaped claw, on one 

 side, and a complete circle of small plates surrounds the horny ring. 



Pen, thin and delicate, narrow anteriorly, with slender lateral ribs ; 

 posteriorly, for more than half the whole length, expanded into a 

 thin lanceolate form ; posterior tip laterally dilated, with the edges 

 involute (fig. 1). 



A young specimen of this species, in nearly perfect preservation, 

 was recently presented to the United States Fish Commission by 

 Capt. William Demsey and crew, of the schooner " Clara F. Friend". 

 It was taken from the stomach of a cod, oiF Seal Island, Nova Scotia. 



Greenland (Fabricius, Moller). Porsangerfjord, northern coast of 

 Norway (G. O. Sars). Coast of Finmark, in stomach of "coal-fish," 

 abundant (G. O. Sars, Norwegian Exp. of 1878). 



D'Orbigny, Gray, and other writers have erroneously referred the 

 OnycJioteuthis Fahricii (based on the Sepia loUgo of Fabricius) to 

 0. Banksii. The detailed Latin description given by Fabricius 

 applies perfectly to the present species, and not at all to 0. JBanksii. 

 He describes the four rows of suckers on the short arms ; the small 

 suckers and two large central hooks on the tentacles ; the short 

 caudal fin, etc. 



Chiloteuthis, gen. nov. 



Allied to EnoploteiitJiis^ Lestoteuthis and Abralia, but with a more 

 complicated armature than either of these genera. Sessile arms with 

 sharp incurved claws, arranged in four rows on the ventral arms, and 

 in two rows on the other arms, (distal portions have lost their arma- 

 ture). Tentacular arms long, with broad clubs, strongly keeled ex- 

 ternally, and with series of convective suckers and tubercles extend- 

 ing for some distance along the inner surface of the arms. Tentacu- 

 lar club provided with a marginal row of connective suckers, alter- 

 nating with tubercles, along one margin ; with a central row of une- 

 qual hooks, some of them very large; with submedian groups of 

 small, slender-pedicelled suckers (or hooks) ; with marginal series of 

 small suckers; and with several rows of small suckers covering the 

 prolonged distal portion of the face. Connective cartilages on the 

 base of the siphon, simple, long-ovate ; the corresponding processes 

 of the mantle are simple longitudinal ridges. The caudal fin, pen, 

 and many other parts are destroyed. 



