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ples. The suckers on the club are numerous, unequal, arranged in about eight 
close rows ; those forming the two or three rows next the upper margin are 
much larger than the rest, being three or four times as broad, and have a row 
of small scale-like denticles around the rims, 
Color, in life, pale and translucent, with scattered rosy chromatophores. In 
the aleoholie specimens, the general color of body, head, and arms is reddish, 
thickly spotted with rather large chromatophores, which also exist on the inner 
surface of the arms between the suckers, and to some extent on the tentacular 
arms and bases of the fins ; outer part of fins translucent white ; anterior edge 
of mantle with a white border. 
Length of body 25 to 40 mm. 
Pen small and very thin, soft, and delicate. It is angularly pointed or pen- 
shaped anteriorly, the shaft narrowing backward ; a thin lanceolate expansion, 
or margin, extends along nearly the posterior half. 
Upper jaw with a sharp strongly incurved beak, without a notch at its base. 
Lower jaw with the tip of the beak strongly incurved, and with a broad but 
prominent rounded lobe on the middle of its cutting edges. 
Odontophore with simple, acute-triangular median teeth ; inner laterals 
simple, nearly of the same size and shape as the median, except at base ; outer 
laterals much longer, strongly curved forward. 
Twenty-six specimens of this species were obtained, from six stations, ran- 
ging in depth from 71 to 233 fathoms. It was taken, later in the season, in 
great abundance, by the U. S. Fish Commission, off Newport, R. I., in 65 to 
192 fathoms, und off the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, in November, by Lieut. 
Z. L. Tanner, on the “ Fish Hawk,” in 18 to 57 fathoms, 
It is easily distinguished from the species of Rossia by the large size of the 
suckers along the middle of the lateral arms ; by the inequality of the suckers 
on the tentacular clubs ; and by the peculiar hectocotylized condition of the 
left dorsal arm of the male. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED. When Specimens, 
No. Stat. Locality. Fath. reed, No. and Sex. 
17,18 313, off Charleston, S. C. 75° 1880 7959 
19 314, N. Lat, 320 24, W. Long. 78° 44 142 1880 2019 
20 316, N. Lat. 82° 7”, W. Long. 78° 37’ 30” 229 1880 12 jun. 
21 321, N. Lat. 329 43° 25", W. Long. 77° 20' 80”. 288. © 1880 59 
22 327, N. Lat. 349 0’ 30", W. Long. 76° 105807 178 1880 1d 82 
23 845, N. Lat. 409 10 15”, W. Long. 70° 4 30” viet ได ้ ส ก eue ue 
Rossia sublevis VERRILL. 
Rossia sublevis VERRILL, Amer. Jour. Sci, XVI. p. 209, 1878; XIX. p. 291, Pl, 
XV. fig. 3, 1880; Trans. Conn. Acad., V., Pl. XXX. fig. 2, Pl. XXXI. fig. 3. 
Plate III. Fig. 2-4. Plate VII. Fig. 4. 
Specimens of the female of this species are in the collection, showing that 
its range extends farther southward than has hitherto been known. It was 
