No. 5. — Reports on the Results of Dredging, under the Supervision 
of ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, on the East Coast of the United. States, 
during the Summer of 1880, by the U. $. Coast Survey Steamer 
* Blake” COMMANDER J. R. BARTLETT, U. 5. N., Commanding. 
(Published by permission of CARLILE P. PATTERSON, Supt. U. S. Coast and 
yeodetic Survey.) 
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Report on the Cephalopods, and on some additional Species dredged by 
the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer “ Fish Hawk," during the Season 
of 1880. By A. E. VERRILL. 
Ommastrephes illecebrosus VERRILL. 
Loligo illecebrosa Lusunur, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., II. p. 95, PL X. figs. 18- 
21, 1821 (figures incorrect). 
Jour, Invert. Mass., Ist ed., p. 318, 1841 (habits). 
Loligo piscatorum La PyLAIE, Aun. des Sci. Nat., IV. p. 319, 1825, PI XVI. 
(habits as observed at St. Pierre). 
Ommastrephes sagittatus (pars) D'ORBIG., Céphal. Acétab., p. 345, Pl. VIT. figs. 
1-3 (after Lesueur). 
BINNEY, in Gould's Invert. Mass., 2d ed., p. 510, 1870 (excl. syn.), Pl. XXVI. 
figs. 341-344 [341 is imperfect], not Pl. XXV. fig. 339. 
Tryon (pars), Man. Conch., I, p. 177, Pl. LXXVIII. fig. 342 (very poor, after 
Lesueur), PL LX XIX. fig. 343, 1879 (not Pl. LXXVIIL figs. 341, 345). 
Ommastrephes ¿llecebrosa VERRILL, Amer. Jour. Sei, IIT. p. 281, 1872 (synon- 
ymy) ; Report Invert. Vineyard Sound, ete., 1873, pp. 441 (habits), 634 (deser.); 
Amer. Jour. Sci, XIX. p. 289, April, 1880; Trans. Conn. Acad., V. p. 268, 
PL XXVII Hee ler PLU aula. Hg 0, Yu Bh AA VI Bg. 8p Mh 
XXXVIII. fig. 2, Pl. XXXIX. figs. 2, 8a, 30, 
Mex illecebrosus STRENSTRUP, Oversigt K. D. Vidensk. Selsk. Forhandl., p. 90, 1880. 
(author's sep. copy, p. 20). 
Three adult females were taken at Station 332, N. Lat. 35° 45’ 307, W. 
Long. 74° 48’, in 963 fathoms. This extends the southward distribution of 
this species far beyond its previously known range. It is not certain that 
these specimens were living at the bottom, for they may have been caught in 
the trawl on its way to the surface. But specimens were taken from the 
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