No. 5. — Rejjorts on the Results of Dredging, under the Supervision 

 of Alexander Agassiz, on the Hast Coast of the United States, 

 during tJie Summer of 1880, by tJie U. S. Coast Survey Steamer 

 "Blake" Commander J. E. Bartlett, U. S. N., Commanding. 



(Published by permission of Carlile P. Patterson, Supt. U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey. ) 



X. 



Report on the Cephalopods, and on some additional Species dredged by 

 the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer " Fish Hawh,'* during the Season 

 of 1880. By A. E. Verrill. 



Ommastrephes illecebrosus Verrill. 



Loligo illecehrosa Lesueur, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., II. p. 95, PI. X. figs. 18- 



21, 1821 (figures incorrect). 

 Gould, Invert. Mass., 1st ed., p. 318, 1841 (habits). 

 Loligo piscatorum La Pylaie, Ann. des Sci. Nat., lY. p. 319, 1825, PI. XVI. 



(habits as observed at St. Pierre). 

 Ommastrephes sagittafus (pars) D'Orbig., Cephal. Acetab., p. 345, PI. VII. fi<Ts. 



1-3 (after Lesueur). 

 Bi.\xey, in Gould's Invert. Mass., 2d ed., p. 510, 1870 (excl. sjti.), PI. XXVI. 



figs. 341-344 [341 is imperfect], not PI. XXV. fig. 339. 

 Tryon (pars), Mau. Conch., I, p. 177, PI. LXXVIII. fig. 342 (very poor, after 



Lesueur), PI. LXXIX. fig. 343, 1879 {not PL LXXVIIL figs. 341, 345). 

 Ommastrephes illeccbrosa Verrill, Amer. Jour, Sci., III. p. 281, 1872 (synon- 

 ymy) ; Report Invert. Vineyard Sound, etc., 1873, pp. 441 (habits), 634 (descr.); 



Amer. Jour. ScL, XIX. p. 289, April, 1880; Trans. Conn. Acad., V. p. 268, 



PL XXVIII. figs. 1-7, PL XXIX. figs. 5, 5 a, PL XXXVIl. fig. 8, PL 



XXXVIIL fig. 2, PL XXXIX. figs. 2, Za,Zb. 

 Illex illecebrosus Steexstrup, 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' 30", W. 

 Long. 74° 48', in 263 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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