A. E. Terrill — North American Cephalopoda. 
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Brown’s Bank, oft' Nova Scotia, taken from the stomach of a cod 
(lot 950). Presented to the 17. S. Fish Commission by Capt. Wm. 
Dempsy and crew, of the schooner “ Clara F. Friend,” June, 1881. 
The internal anatomy is somewhat peculiar in several respects, but 
will not be fully described in this place. 
The gills are short and broad, with very long lamellae. The re- 
productive organs occupy a large part of the visceral cavity. The 
testicle is a large, thick, broad-ovate organ, with the two sides folded 
together around and closely united to the large coecal lobe of the 
stomach. The testicle does not extend back beyond the origin of the 
caudal fin, the visceral cavity being very narrow in that region. 
The prostate gland and vesiculte seminales are large and swollen, and 
the spermatophore-sac is also large. The efferent duct is large and 
long, extending far forward ; it expands at the end into a spade-like 
form, with an acute tip ; its orifice is oblique ear-shaped, situated on 
one side, near the end, and is protected by a lobe or flap. The stom- 
ach is saccular and the large cceeal lobe is not very long. The liver 
is thick. The posterior aorta goes far back, nearly to the origin of 
the fin, before dividing, for the median septum of the branchial cavity 
is placed far back. The ink-sac has the ordinary pyriform shape. 
A smaller, female specimen, probably belonging to this species, was 
taken by Captain Z. L. Tanner, on the “Fish Hawk,” October 10, off 
Delaware Bay, in 435 fathoms, station 1048. 
This specimen agrees nearly with the type specimen, described 
above, in the form and proportions of the body, head, arms, caudal 
fin, pen, etc., and in the structure and denticulation of the suckers. 
The caudal fin is slightly broader in proportion, while the suckers are 
deeper and relatively smaller, especially those on the ventral arms, 
which are decidedly smaller than those on the lateral ones. They 
are finely and sharply denticulated on the outer edge, as in the type. 
The color is, however, quite different, for in this example the skin 
and flesh are translucent and beautifully specked with regular, round, 
often rather large, not crowded, dark brownish red chromato- 
pliores ; the larger of these, especially on the under side of the fin 
ami body, are ocellated ; on the head and arms the chromatophores 
become smaller and more crowded, more nearly as in the type. The 
row of large dark purple spots, along the ventral arms, are, in this 
example, decidedly raised and wart-like. One of the tentacular arms 
is perfect. These are very long and slender, and bear, along their 
whole length, relatively large, rounded, wart-like, dark purple, sessile 
suckers, having a small central pit. These suckers are about two- 
Tra.vs. Conn. Acad., Vol. V. 49 Deckmiikh, 1881. 
