90 ON SEVERAL NEW SPECIES 



L. *cyclura. Terminal fin orbicular; head small : 

 eyes large, prominent ; body coniform. 



Inhabits the Pacific Ocean. 



Total length from the extremity of the tentacula to 

 the tip of the fin five and a half inches; bodv three 

 inches ; tail one inch ; the long tentacula one inch 

 and a half. The first pair of tentacula very short, 

 second pair longer, third pair still longer and more 

 robust,; inferior pair nearly equal to the superior 

 ones : terminal fin orbicular, slightly embracing the 

 tip of the body ; color, tentacula and superior portion 

 of the head light blue ; body and tail tinged with 

 bluish and red, irrorate with red points, ornamented 

 with several irregular spots of a deeper red, and 

 with remote, transverse, black, abbreviated lines, 

 two large light brown, suboval, dorsal spots behind 

 the middle, preceded by a black spot, and with a 

 red one posteriorly. 



This description is taken from a drawing made by 

 Mr. Petit, from a specimen obtained in the Pacific 

 Ocean, in lat. 37° South, and long. 33° East. 



** Having long arms, furnished with suckers. 



genus 2nd, LOLIGO, Pliny. Lam. 

 Fins, united, pointed at the base. 



Species. — 1. L. *Bartramii. Arms sub com- 

 pressed, with a large membrane at their inner angles. 



The sac in this species is very firm, cyliudric to 

 the base of the fin, where it contracts^and terminates 



