.4. E. Verrill — Forth American Cephalopoda. 
377 
Measurements in millimeters. 
a 
Right Side. 
$ 
Left Side. 
2 
Right Side. 
2 
Left Side. 
Total length . . . 
95 
194 
Posterior end to center of eve 
34 
Eve to tip of dorsal arms 
64 
Breadth of bodv . . 
28 
40 
Breadth of head . . . . 
22 
32 
Length of dorsal arms, from mouth 
65 
61 
112 
105 
second pair “ 
61 
103 
96 
third “ “ 
52 
112 
106 
“ hectocotylized arm, from mouth. 
58 
“ fourth pair .. ... 
__ 
53 
94 
97 
“ spoon-shaped appendage. 
23 
Breadth of the same 
16 
.. 
The first specimen of this species was taken off Xova Scotia, near 
Le Have Bank, in 120 fathoms, by Captain Samuel Peeples and crew 
of the schooner “ M. H. Perkins,” and presented to the T7. S. Fish 
Commission. A few others have since been brought in bv the 
Gloucester fishermen, from the Bank Fisheries. Hr. A. Agassiz, 
dredged it on the “ Blake,” in 1880, as far south as X. lat. 33° 42' 
15". It ranges in depth from 120 to 602 fathoms. 
Specimens examined. 
Xo. Stat. 
Locality. 
Fath. 
When 
coll’d. 
Specimens. 
Xo. and Sex. 
7 326 
X. Lat. 33 T 42' 15"; VT. Long. 76° O' 50’ (Blake) 
464 
1879 
1 : 1 2 
10 329 
X. Lat. 34 39' 40 W. Long. 75 5 14' 40" (Blake) 
603 
1879 
1 $ (fig’d.) 
553 
Le Have Bank, X. S. (sch. M. H. Perkins) 
120 
1879 
1 2 (fig’d.) 
718 
S. of Xewfoundland (sch. Proctor Brothers) 
150 
Jn ’80 
1 8m. 2 
737 
St. Peter’s Bank (sch. Augusta H. Johnson) 
200 
1880 
1 1. 2 
807 
Banquereau (sch. Epes Tarr) 
Au. ’80 
1 2 
| 808 
X. Lat. 44 32'; Gr. Bank (sch. Guy Cunningham) 
Au. ’80 
1 2 
In the soft consistency of the flesh and skin, this species resembles 
O. obesus. It differs in the shorter and posteriorly emarginate body, 
and especially in the arrangement of the suckers, which, in that 
species, are in a single series toward the bases of the arms. 
Octopus plscatorum Terrill. 
Terrill, Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. xviii, p. 470, Dec., 1879; xix, p. 294, Apr., 1880. 
Plate XXXTI. fiocres 1, 2,9. 
The body of the female is smooth, depressed, about as broad as 
long; rounded posteriorly, not showing any lateral ridges, nor dorsal 
papillae; a small simple papilla above the eyes. Arms long, rather 
slender, tapering to long, slender, acute tips, the upper ones a little 
( 2 - 5 n >m) shorter than those of the second pair, which are the longest; 
