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pies. 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 alcoholic 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 nauch 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, and 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 Bossia 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. 



No. Stat. Locality. 



17, 18 313, off Charleston, S. C. 



19 314, N. Lat. 32° 24', W. Long. 78° 44' 



20 316, N. Lat. 32° 7', W. Long. 78° 37' 30" 



21 321, N. Lat. 32° 43' 25", W. Long. 77° 20' 30" 



22 327, N. Lat. 34° 0' 30", W. Long. 76° 10' 30" 



23 345, N. Lat. 40° 10' 15", W. Long. 70° 4' 30" 71 1880 1 9 jun. 



Rossia sublevis Verrill. 



Jiossia mblevis Verrill, Amer. Jour. Sci., XVL p. 209, 1878 ; XIX. p. 291, PI. 

 XV. fig. 3, 1880 ; Tran.s. Conn. Acad., V., PI. XXX. fig. 2, PL XXXI. fig. 3. 



Plate III. Fie. 2-4. Plate VII. Fiff. 4. 



Specimens of the femalu of this species are in the collection, showing that 

 its range extends farther soutliward than has liithcrto been known. It was 



